BIB_ID
361913
Accession number
MA 3260.50
Creator
King, John Alsop, 1788-1867.
Display Date
1826 Mar. 6.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Seth Dennis, 1978.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Dr. F.G. King / at Dr. Post's / New York."
Part of a collection of letters from Rufus and Mary King to their son Frederic Gore King. Letters are described in individual records; please see collection record for MA 3260 for more details.
Watermark: J Whatman 1826.
With seal.
Part of a collection of letters from Rufus and Mary King to their son Frederic Gore King. Letters are described in individual records; please see collection record for MA 3260 for more details.
Watermark: J Whatman 1826.
With seal.
Provenance
Gertrude W. Dennis.
Summary
Telling him that his wife had a baby girl last month; speculating that Frederic and his wife may be waiting to have children "until a large [medical] practice shall give [him] more courage"; reporting on their father's health [Rufus King]; praising their father's doctor, Sir Henry Halford; describing efforts to obtain copies of lectures from the College of Physicians; noting that they are sending him "Read's apparatus ... by one of the first opportunities that may offer."
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