COOPER, Thomas.

Some Information Respecting America...

Item #48460

COOPER, Thomas. Some Information Respecting America...2nd ed. London: J. Johnson, 1795. Folding map. iv, 240pp. plus 1pp. advt. A very good copy in orig. full calf (outer hinge slightly cracked). HOWES C-760. Pages 227-240 contain "Information To Those Who Would Remove to America Written Some Time Since by Dr. Benjamin Franklin." The author describes mostly the middle colonies in quite favorable terms. He settled in Pennsylvania where he practiced both law and medicine. He later taught chemistry at Carlisle (now Dickinson) College, and later taught at the University of Pennsylvania.

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