Item #53206 Manuscript Poem: "A Petition from the Ladies of Edinburgh to Dr. Moyes." Twelve lines. Fair Copy. Dr. Henry Moyes.

Manuscript Poem: "A Petition from the Ladies of Edinburgh to Dr. Moyes." Twelve lines. Fair Copy.

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3 pages. Docketed on back. 8vo. With some wear at folds.

Item #53206

Part of a longer poem written in probably after 1807 and published in The New Monthly Magazine in 1835 with Lord Byron's Reply (a doubtful attribution). Dr. Henry Moyes (1750-1807) was blind from small pox in infancy.
"As his blindness precluded Moyes from practising medicine, he became, in Edinburgh, a lecturer on chemistry and natural philosophy, relying on an assistant for the demonstrations...his visit to the fledgeling United States of America (1784–6). He lectured to rapturous success in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Princeton, and Charleston, South Carolina, before returning to England...As he never published, Moyes's reputation faded with his memory. More recently, with increasing historical interest in the rise of science in British provincial culture, his role has been reassessed, in particular by Inkster: he was one of a group of itinerant lecturers who helped the ideas of the literary and philosophical movement further permeate the social spectrum, to assist the beginnings of the mechanics' institutes." ODNB.