2 items: 1. Autograph Letter Initialed ("J.J."), 3pp recto and verso, 4to (conjoining leaves), Boston, June 22, 1841, to Mrs. Harriet Minot, discussing daily activities, short tear from separating from seal, else fine. Harriet Minot was Jackson's daughter. 2. Memoir of James Jackson, Jr. M.D. Written by His Father.... Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co., 1836. 8vo. Later full blue calf, gilt-lettered spine label, a.e.g. Light foxing throughout, spine with some flaking, joints rubbed, extremities rubbed. Second item is a first edition. Jackson Jr. was said to have had a remarkable career and published an important study on cholera in 1832, two years before his early death from tuberculous pericarditis. This volume was written by the elder Jackson during his mourning. The Dictionary of American Biography considers this work "an interesting psychological document in that it is entirely objective and almost entirely devoid of any evidence of the deep feeling which prompted him to write it." DAB Vol.IX, p.546. Provenance: From the collection of Nobel laureate George R. Minot, with his penciled notes on the verso of the front free endpaper.
2 items: 1. Autograph Letter Initialed ("J.J."), 3pp recto and verso, 4to (conjoining leaves), Boston, June 22, 1841, to Mrs. Harriet Minot, discussing daily activities, short tear from separating from seal, else fine. Harriet Minot was Jackson's daughter. 2. Memoir of James Jackson, Jr. M.D. Written by His Father.... Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co., 1836. 8vo. Later full blue calf, gilt-lettered spine label, a.e.g. Light foxing throughout, spine with some flaking, joints rubbed, extremities rubbed. Second item is a first edition. Jackson Jr. was said to have had a remarkable career and published an important study on cholera in 1832, two years before his early death from tuberculous pericarditis. This volume was written by the elder Jackson during his mourning. The Dictionary of American Biography considers this work "an interesting psychological document in that it is entirely objective and almost entirely devoid of any evidence of the deep feeling which prompted him to write it." DAB Vol.IX, p.546. Provenance: From the collection of Nobel laureate George R. Minot, with his penciled notes on the verso of the front free endpaper.
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