To the public. : A plan has been formed and been in operation, for three days, for increasing the resources and the means of usefulness of certain benevolent institutions in our city, which reflect honour on human nature, and have justly elevated the character of Philadelphia at home and abroad. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Pamphlets of the Mathew Carey Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Charities.

Asylums.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Asylums--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

3 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Pamphlets of Mathew Carey. v. 3 no. 56 PU

Pamphlets of Mathew Carey. v. 6 no. 45 PU

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1829]

Notes:

Title from caption and opening lines of text.

Signed, p. 3: Hamilton [i.e., Mathew Carey]. Philadelphia, May 16, 1829. N.B. It is hoped that those editors of papers who are favorably disposed towards institutions calculated for the promotion of education ... &c. will insert the above once or twice.

Another edition is without the five line "N.B." following the date; two additional sentences, beginning "A general view of all these institutions," are included in the next to the last paragraph on p. 2.

Last page blank.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is v. 3 no. 56 in a collection of Mathew Carey Pamphlets bound together.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is v. 6 no. 45 in a collection of Mathew Carey Pamphlets bound together.

Cited in:

Shoemaker, 38069

OCLC:

81782955