Chain of Friendship: Selected Letters of Dr. John Fothergill of London, 1736-1780

by John Fothergill

Book Overview

Of his friend of many years, Dr. John Fothergill, Benjamin Franklin wrote: "I can hardly conceive that a better man has ever existed." Fothergill's letters provide a fascinating perspective of his time--a totally different view from that given by his contemporaries Horace Walpole and Dr. Johnson.The "Quaker internationalist" (as his editors aptly call him) was during the middle decades of the eighteenth century one of the half dozen leading physicians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674106601
• ISBN13: 9780674106604
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.6"