Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 31, 1795
Primary Source Reference:
New-York Gazette, 31 Aug 1795
Additional Source Text:
"Which have issued from Mount Vesuvius, and of which all other specimens are only variations."
Notes:
Rev. Thomas Hall, a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of the College of Philadelphia, was a Loyalist who served as chaplain to the British factory at Leghorn (Livorno), Italy for thirty years. He also made donations to the Massachusetts Historical Society, which elected him a corresponding member in 1801. (Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 1 (Boston, 1879), p. 136; Donald H. Reiman, ed., Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Vol. 8 (Cambridge, Mass., 1986), p. 894)
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