Title: Autograph Letter Signed, to Dr. George Clymer, Naval Surgeon aboard the USS Cyane, Norfolk, Virginia Author: Norris, George W., M.D. Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Date: August 10, 1841 Description: 16 lines, in ink, 1-page + integral stampless address leaf. (4to). Letter introducing Clymer to Robert Stevenson who had spent three years as a nurse at the Frankford Asylum for the Insane, a respectable, honest and sober young man who would join the ship as Clymer’s assistant, bringing with him a “vaccine scab…taken from a healthy child” who had recovered from the yellow fever which reached epidemic proportions in the US that year. It’s unknown if Stevenson was aboard the Cyane (as Clymer was) a year later when the warship sailed into Monterey Bay and mistakenly “captured” California from Mexico. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine condition. Item number: 226872
Title: Autograph Letter Signed, to Dr. George Clymer, Naval Surgeon aboard the USS Cyane, Norfolk, Virginia Author: Norris, George W., M.D. Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Date: August 10, 1841 Description: 16 lines, in ink, 1-page + integral stampless address leaf. (4to). Letter introducing Clymer to Robert Stevenson who had spent three years as a nurse at the Frankford Asylum for the Insane, a respectable, honest and sober young man who would join the ship as Clymer’s assistant, bringing with him a “vaccine scab…taken from a healthy child” who had recovered from the yellow fever which reached epidemic proportions in the US that year. It’s unknown if Stevenson was aboard the Cyane (as Clymer was) a year later when the warship sailed into Monterey Bay and mistakenly “captured” California from Mexico. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine condition. Item number: 226872
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