Testimonials in favour of Richard Poole, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh / [Richard Poole].

  • Poole, Richard, approximately 1780-1870.
Date:
1829]
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of Richard Poole, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh / [Richard Poole]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘““ My Dear Sir, Epinsureu, 15th May 1829. “Tam glad of this opportunity of bearing my testimony, however feebly, to your superior qualifications for the Moral Chair of Belfast. I have been so much in the habit of benefit- ing, both intellectually and morally, by you, that I feel it a pri- vilege to be enabled, even partially, to pay you back, and so easily as 1 now do, by merely declaring the nature of my obli- gations to you. *< I do not believe there are many who have enriched their -metaphysical stores by a more ample or elegant endowment of belles lettres, nor many who are enabled to draw their argu- ments and illustrations from a wider field of human knowledge. '* T can say that I have never applied to you for information on any subject, however unexpected by you, or recherché in it- self, that you did not tell me where I should find it treated, and, moreover, how I should find it treated; and, from my own experience, I cannot imagine the Students at Belfast more pro- fitably and pleasingly instructed than they will be, if they are fortunate enough to have you for their Professor. *‘] shall, in the last mentioned event, have one regret,— namely, losing your society in Edinburgh, where your mild and gentlemanlike manners, and high moral worth, have, for ten years, given me reason to value you as one of my most highly prized friends. I am, my dear Sir, with sincere esteem, your’s very faithfully, JAMES SIMPSON,” (Advocate.) “ Dear Sir, Epinsurcu, 18th May 1829. “¢ It is certainly very little that any thing I can say will add to the weight of the honourable testimonies in your favour which you have communicated to me. But in so far as it may be of any value to you, it gives me great pleasure to state, that, from my intercourse with you for some time past, in regard to the investigation of the rights of the College of Physicians, and from all I know of your scientific and professional acquire- ments, I am fully convinced that you are well qualified for the situation to which you aspire; and I have no doubt you will, c