MSS 2/0292-01			Acc. 1993-020

JOSEPH CARSON,
1808-1876

Letters,
1868-1876

 1.	Lindsay Blakiston.
	Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Joseph Carson, [Philadelphia, 
	Pa.], 1868 Sept. 19.
	2 p.

 2.	Lindsay Blakiston.
	Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Joseph Carson, [Philadelphia, 
	Pa.], 1869 July 16.
	2 p.

		Includes statement of sales of Carson's A history of 
	the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania.

 3.	Lindsay Blakiston.
	Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Joseph Carson, [Philadelphia, 
	Pa.], 1870 July 22.
	1 p.

 4.	Lindsay Blakiston.
	Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Joseph Carson, [Philadelphia, 
	Pa.], 1872 Jan. 10.
	1 p.

 5.	University of Pennsylvania. Trustees.
	Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Joseph Carson, [Philadelphia, 
	Pa.], 1876 May 3.
	2 p.


1868-1876
1 folder (5 items)

5/4/1993
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MSS 2/0292-01			Acc. 1993-020

JOSEPH CARSON,
1808-1876

Letters,
1868-1876


Biographical

Joseph Carson, Philadelphia, Pa., physician and educator, was 
born on 19 April 1808.  He married (1) Mary Goddard, in 1841, 
and then (2) Sarah Hollingsworth, in 1848, by whom he had four 
children.  Joseph Carson died on 30 December 1876. 

After attending the University of Pennsylvania and receiving an 
A.B. in 1826 and M.D. in 1830, Carson became a resident at Pennsylvania 
Hospital.  He was a physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, 1849-1854, 
professor of materia medica at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 
1836-1850, and professor of materia medica and therapeutics 
at the University of Pennsylvania, 1850-1876.  In 1869, he published 
A history of the Medical Department of the University 
of Pennsylvania.  Joseph Carson became a Fellow of the College 
of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1838 and was also a member 
of the Philadelphia Medical Society, the Academy of Natural 
Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.


Scope and contents

The collection contains four letters to Joseph Carson from the 
publishing firm of Lindsay   Blakiston concerning the production 
and sale of Carson's A history of the Medical Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania.  The collection 
also includes a letter containing resolutions made by the Board 
of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on the resignation 
of Joseph Carson in 1876.


Provenance

The collection of Joseph Carson letters was donated to the Historical 
Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by 
Dr. Carson's great grandson, Evan Randolph, on 20 April 1993.

The collection was processed and catalogued in 1993.


1868-1876
1 folder (5 items)

4/5/1993
je