Respected friend, as our correspondence with most of our friends, both at home and abroad, has been interrupted on our part, for nearly three months past, it is proper that we should account to them for so extraordinary a suspension, and give some account of our late and present situation.

  • Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834.
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view Respected friend, as our correspondence with most of our friends, both at home and abroad, has been interrupted on our part, for nearly three months past, it is proper that we should account to them for so extraordinary a suspension, and give some account of our late and present situation.

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Respected friend, as our correspondence with most of our friends, both at home and abroad, has been interrupted on our part, for nearly three months past, it is proper that we should account to them for so extraordinary a suspension, and give some account of our late and present situation. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1793]

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4 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm (folio)

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Evans 25486
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 147
ESTC (RLIN) W38298

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A combined business and personal letter in which Samuel and Miers Fisher account for the interruption of their correspondence during the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia
Title taken from the opening sentence of the letter
At the head of the sheet: Philadelphia, 11th Month, 18th, 1793
Signed in MS.: Samuel & Miers Fisher
Folded sheet printed on both sides of first leaf; second leaf blank

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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