Letter, 1816 June 22, to Nathan Smith.

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Letter, 1816 June 22, to Nathan Smith.

A four-page letter that includes a brief testimony about Smith's religious experience, an announcement of his plans to explore the "western wildes of North America," and an apology to his physician father, Nathan.

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Smith, Nathan, 1762-1829

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Born in Rehoboth, RI, in 1762, Smith grew up in Chester, VT. He apprenticed in Putney, VT, and began a medical practice in Cornish, NH. He attended Harvard where he obtained his M.B. in 1790, and continued his practice in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont, for many years in partnership with Cyrus Perkins. He founded Dartmouth Medical School in 1796. In 1813 he joined the new Yale Medical institution, and he lectured on medicine at Bowdoin College, starting in 1821, and Vermont Medica...

Smith, David Solon Chase Hall, 1795-1859.

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David Smith was a physician, born in Cornish, N.H., 27 June 1795;died, Providence, R.I., 6 April 1859. From the description of Letter, 1816 June 22, to Nathan Smith. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 239691735 ...