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The Recommendation of William Smith, A.M., Provost of the College of Philadelphia, in America, to the University of Oxford / by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury & others.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, William, 1727-1803.
- Smith, William.
- University of Pennsylvania--History.
- University of Pennsylvania.
- College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia.
- College teachers.
- History.
- Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Pennsylvania.
- College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia--Faculty--Biography.
- College teachers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Petitions.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 12 pages ; 32 cm
- Other Title:
- Recommendation of William Smith, A.M. to the University of Oxford
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Horace W. Smith, 1865.
- Notes:
- William Smith was Provost of the College of Philadelphia from 1754-1779 and 1789-1791. This pamphlet details Smith's efforts to encourage the defence of Pennsylvania against "the French and their Savages' after the death of General Braddock, and the subsequent action taken by certain Assembly members against Smith. It also urges conferring upon him the degree of Doctor in Divinity.
- Reprint. Originally published: To the University of Oxford. The underwritten representation in behalf of William Smith, Cl. M.A. of the University of Aberdeen, and now Provost of the College of Philadelphia in America. ; London : [publisher not identified], 1759.
- Signed, page 12: Thos. Cant, R. Duresme, John Sarum, R. Asaph, J. Glocester, Z. Oxford, London, 12th March, 1759.
- "Fifty copies privately printed, for Horace W. Smith, Philadelphia, 1865"--Verso, added title page.
- Local Notes:
- Archives copy numbered and initialed by H.W. Smith.
- Archives copy bears book plate of the Library of the Philomathean Society, University of Pennsylvania, and is inscribed "Presented to the Library."
- Miscellaneous Print Collection copy 1 imperfect: cover wanting.
- Miscellaneous Print Collection copies 1 and 2 housed in same folder.
- OCLC:
- 79958768
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