Joseph Carson correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSS 2/292

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.

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.

Dates

1868 - 1876

Creator

Carson, Joseph (Person)

Biographical / Historical

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.

Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Location

Small collections

Custodial History

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.