An exercise, performed at the public commencement, in the College of Philadelphia, July 17, 1790 : containing an ode, set to music, sacred to the memory of Dr. Franklin : this exercise consists of lines, partly original, and partly selected or altered from former similar compositions in this college, as they were hastily thrown together, for the occasion of the present commencement : it is hoped that they will be received with the usual indulgence of a candid public.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, William, 1727-1803, author.

Contributor:

College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia, sponsor.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Penn in the Age of Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Songs and music.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Genre:

Songs and music.

Dialogues.

Songs.

Music.

Penn Provenance:

Pepper, William (bookplate) (RBC copy 2 (E302.6.F8.S65))

Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (RBC copy 2 (E302.6.F8.S65))

Physical Description:

11 pages, 1 unnumbered page : music ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by William Young, bookseller ..., MDCCXC [1790]

Notes:

Attributed to William Smith by Stoddard.

Signatures: [A]⁶.

Local Notes:

RBC copy 1 mounted and extra illustrations added.

RBC copy 2 (E302.6.F8.S65) bound with copy 2 of Smith, William. Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia, 1792.

Cited in:

ESTC W17502

Evans 22798

Stoddard, R.E. Unrecorded Wegelin, 180

OCLC:

1199174440