Inoculation of the Small Pox as Practised in Boston: Consider'd in a Letter to A-- S-- M.D. & F ...
Publisher: Printed and sold by J . Franklin, at his printing-house in Queen -Street, over against Mr . Sheaf's school.
Published: 1722
Number of pages: 72
Notes: The letter, dated from Boston Dec. 20, 1721, is unsigned. William Wagstaffe identified William Douglass as author and Alexander Stuart as recipient when he appended extracts from this and two subsequent letters by Douglass to his A letter to Dr. Freind, shewing the danger and uncertainty of inoculating the small pox (London, 1722) Cf. G.L. Kittredge, "Some lost works of Cotton Mather," Mass. Hist. Soc., Proceedings, v. 45 (1912) p. 457.