Author: [Massachusetts][Harvard] Buckingham, Joseph T. & Foster, Been B.
Title: Boston Courier. Thursday, September 2, 1847. Volume XI, No. 555
Description: Boston, Buckingham, Joseph T. & Foster, Been B. 1847. First edition. Self wrappers. 4 pp. Folio. Article that Harvard had named its new science buildings the "Lawrence Scientific School" after Massachusetts industrialist and entrepreneur Abbott Lawrence, founder of Lawrence, Mass. whose $50,000 donation was the largest of its time. Also much shipping news plus: The wrong man hung; Rumors on the Steamship "Missouri"; Wreck of the new ship "Mamlouk"- 42 causalities (It was found that the 35 mid deck passengers and seven of the crew had been washed overboard and drowned. The terror was so great that they were not missed until the next morning; Our Affairs with the Brazils and recent problems in Rio; Cow disease: Bloody Murrain; Negro arrested for rape of white woman; Suicides, Poisoning, Stabbings, and Buried Alive; Alligator found at dock, shot on spot; Trial of Prof. McClintock, for interfering in the arrest of fugitive slaves, implicated in riot. Folded, else a very good copy, lightly browned with minor tears at fold and in margins.

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