Wight, Orlando Williams (1824-1888)
- Wight, Orlando Williams, 1824-1888, lawyer and author
- Date:
- 1852
- Reference:
- MS.5002
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
The romance of Abelard and Heloïse. Author's holograph MS. Newark (N.J.) A philosophical novel published in New York in 1853.
Publication/Creation
1852
Physical description
4 ll. (last 2 bl.). + 385 ff. + 16 bl. ll. 4to. 24 x 191/2 cm. Original calf binding. Some leaves appear to have been torn out before the title-page, and among the blank leaves at the end.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1928.
Biographical note
A notice of the author is found in the B.M.J. 1891, i, pp. 762,763, in the form of a review of the biography written by his brother Dr. J. S. Wight entitled: `Memorial of O. W. Wight, A.M., M.D., Sanitarian, Lawyer, and Author', Cambridge (Mass.), 1890
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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Accession number
- 77901