Report of a rehearsal of an Hunterian Oration, at the Royal College of Surgeons, read to a committee of undertakers / by William Woeful, of Fleet-Market, with the curate of Black Fryars at his elbow.

Woeful, William, pseud.

Date:: 1822

Credit: Report of a rehearsal of an Hunterian Oration, at the Royal College of Surgeons, read to a committee of undertakers / by William Woeful, of Fleet-Market, with the curate of Black Fryars at his elbow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PREFACE. Having waited upon the Curate of Black Fryars, full of congratulations from the Committee, I found him rummaging his late father’s books. I told him how much I wished for a Preface to my Letter, for that the Committee had ordered it to he printed. Says he, I have this moment read through one written nearly a century ago, which I intend, when the century is past, send- ing to the Gentleman’s Magazine, that the rust of antiquity might make the gem more perfect, and more acceptable to that valuable record of intellectual literature. Your little cracker is too diminutive for the purpose of the whole

Report of a rehearsal of an Hunterian Oration, at the Royal College of Surgeons, read to a committee of undertakers / by William Woeful, of Fleet-Market, with the curate of Black Fryars at his elbow.

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