Address to the public. : Philadelphia, August 20, 1829. That it is the duty of the rich, and, in proportion to their means ought to be their pride and pleasure, to meliorate the condition and relieve the distress of the deserving and suffering poor will be admitted by every well-constituted mind. ...

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):

Philadelphia Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor.

Poor--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Poor.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Charities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Charities.

Penn Provenance:

Conwell, Henry, 1748-1842 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

3 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Pamphlets of Mathew Carey. v. 3 no. 57 PU

Pamphlets of Mathew Carey. v. 6 no. 42 PU

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

Caption title, with first lines of text.

Soliciting subscribers to "organize themselves into a society, to be styled, 'the Society for Bettering the Conditions of the Poor.'"

Attributed to Mathew Carey by Shoemaker.

Last page blank.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is v. 3 no. 57 in a collection of Mathew Carey Pamphlets bound together.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is v. 6 no. 42 in a collection of Mathew Carey Pamphlets bound together. This copy has ms. inscription on verso of final leaf which reads "The Right Rev. Bishop Conwell D D."

Cited in:

Shoemaker, 38051

OCLC:

81984629