Extracts from a history of the Massachusetts general hospital, 1810-1851 / Nathaniel I. Bowditch, with a continuation 1851-1872 / George E. Ellis.
- Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
- Date:
- [1899?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Extracts from a history of the Massachusetts general hospital, 1810-1851 / Nathaniel I. Bowditch, with a continuation 1851-1872 / George E. Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![deducting certain charges and the payment to the Dispensary, makes the sum but little less than twelve hundred dollars. October 7, 1823. The Committee reported that they had leased the mummy one year for exhibition in other cities. The Chairman reported that the portrait of the President [William Phillips ; by Stuart, then sixty-seven years old] was finished; and, on October 10, it was received. The west wing of the Hospital was now ready for patients. NoYemlber 2, 1823. The gratifying announcement was made of a bequest from John M'Lean, of twenty-five thousand dollars, payable on death of his widow, and with the information that he had also made this institution his residuary legatee, by which a much larger sum would be secured. This residue proved to be over ninety thousand dollars. Mr. M'Lean was a truly noble specimen of a Boston merchant. Having many years before failed in business, he settled with all his creditors, and obtained a full discharge. Soon afterwards, by the safe arrival, as I believe, of a vessel supposed to have been lost, he retrieved his affairs. He forthwith called a meet- ing of his creditors, and paid to each of them the balance due, both principal and interest. November 23, 1823. A Committee was appointed to obtain a portrait of Mr. M'Lean [Donor of $119,858.20], and to report on the expediency of obtaining portraits of other liberal donors. On December 7, the Committee for obtainino; Mr. M'Lean's portrait were also charged with procuring a portrait of the late Samuel Eliot [Donor of $10,000]. February 8, 1824. Messrs. Francis and Guild were ap- pointed a Committee on the settlement of accounts by the executors of Mr. M'Lean, as to the amount charged for com- missions, and the investment of the trust-fund. In the ninth volume of Pickering's Reports, page 447, is a report of the suit brought by Harvard College and the Hos-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2122755x_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
