Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital.

  • London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye
Date:
1818
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Credit: Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    state and to remind you, that the annuity was disallowed at a Quarterly Meeting of the General Committee ; that the proceedings of that Committee were confirmed by the two following Annual JVTeetings ; that the annuity was granted to compensate for the inability of the Governors to give effect to the benevolent intention which they had entertained, of pub- lishing the posthumous work at the expense of the Infirmary, for the benefit of Mrs. Saunders, and that the whole proceeding was entirely dis- interested and purely benevolent. That the Members of the Committee purchased a consider- able number of copies of the first edition, upon which Mrs. Saunders had the benefit of the pub- lishers' profit, as well as half the net profit of sale; that the Committee did not exercise any power of control whatsoever in the publica* tion of the work; and that the consideration of the time and manner of publication were confided, under letter, from Mrs. Saunders and the Rev. O. S. Saunders, implicitly to Dr. Farre. It is also insinuated or alleged by Sir William Adams (pages 100,101), that this work has been published in a manner disadvantaoeous to the interest of Mrs. Colkett; your Committee, in explanation, refer to the Appendix [G]. Your Committee have been led in the course of their labours, to the knowledge of many