Address of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital to the public. ...
Contributors: Channing, Walter, 1786-1876, former owner; Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864
Publisher: J. Belcher
Published: 1814
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Notes: Dated at end 8th January, 1814, and signed by T. H. Perkins, Josiah Quincy, and ten other members of the board. The address was actually written by Josiah Quincy. Cf. N. I. Bowditch, History of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1872, p. 18, note.

Explains "the necessity and importance of a general hospital within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," especially to care for "the sick poor and the insane," points out the inadequacy of the Boston Almshouse to meet this need, and invites a liberal subscription to support the establishment of the hospital, the corporation of which had been chartered by the legislature in 1811.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy includes ms. notes on p.8.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) bound volume ex libris (inscription): Dr. Walter Channing.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) bound volume includes ms. table of contents bound in.

Bound volume includes: 1. Act : an act to incorporate certain persons by the name of the Massachusetts General Hospital -- 2. Address of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital to the public -- 3. The Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, to the public --3a. The Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital earnestly request of their fellow citizens a candid perusal of the following address -- 4. Civil, religious, and Masonic services, at the laying of the corner stone of the Massachusetts General Hospital -- 4a. Address delivered before the Governour and council, members of the legislature, and other patrons of the Massachusetts General Hospital -- 5. By-laws of the Massachusetts General Hospital -- 6. Rules and regulations for the government of the Asylum for the Insane -- 7. .Address of the trustees of the Massachusetts general hospital to the subscribers and to the public.