60. A RADICAL STUDENT WRITES FROM LONDON Fine content partial A.L. (signed page lost), 4pp. 8vo., London, Oct. 3, 1761 in which a medical student in writes to prominent Philadelphia merchant Richard Wister. The letter opens with a depressing recount of the students' care for his female patients, many of whom are apparently dying for want of earlier attention due to poverty. He then discusses politics of the day, in part: "...We shall...always be plagued with the pests of mankind (soldiers)...we only wait an opportunity to throw off our dependency on our mother Country, they are extremely harsh in their expressions, and I have enough to do to keep my temper when I am vindicating Pennsylvania...They look on the Indians, as trifles, and say they should be cutt of the face of the Earth, and that we deserve to suffer if we do not attempt it...I have told some of them...if they and the Proprietor were scalp'd together...[they replied] we will always have a sufficient number of soldiers quarter'd on you, to keep you honest...Mr. [Benjamin] Franklin has given up, every point he came over to contend, so we have been finely blinded...I think I can see a storm rising at home, especially if it be true that Pitt has resigned, if he has it is because they will not declare war [against Spain]...". Split at folds with some nominal loss thereat, typical toning, set between two pieces of glass in a ca. 1920 frame. Worthy of restoration. $300-400