[Rarebooks] For Sale: Smith's "Priestley in America," with letter

[Norman Kane]

  SMITH, EDGAR F[AHS].  PRIESTLEY IN AMERICA 1794 - 
1804.  Philadelphia:Blakiston's Son & Co., (1920).  Original cloth 
lettered in gilt, 7 X 4 1/2 inches, [6], 173 pages, a very good 
copy.  Inserted is a typed letter signed from Penn Provost Smith to 
Wharton Barker, June 30th,1920.  This was only a few days after the 
infamous Scott Nearing dismissal by the Penn trustees; Barker was one 
of only 2 trustees who had stood by Nearing to the end. 20 years 
before he had been the Populist Party candidate for President.  The 
letter reads in part: "In a few hours my connection with the 
University of Pennsylvania will terminate . . . To me everything 
pertaining to our University is very dear . . . I hope to find 
pleasure and satisfaction in the research which I have already begun 
in the little laboratory so graciously assigned to me by the 
Board."  Accompanied by a copy of a letter from Barker concerning the 
University.  Smith's
card is tipped in. (Smith, a chemist, did valuable work in the field 
of atomic weights, in the uses of tungsten, &c - see DAB.)
$85.00    (Trade Discount Available)


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