Two essays : one upon single vision with two eyes ; the other on dew : a letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd, Lord Kenyon, and an account of a female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembled that of a negro ; with some observations on the causes of the differences in colour and form between the white and negro races of men / by the late William Charles Wells, with a memoir of his life, written by himself.

Date:
1818
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Credit: Two essays : one upon single vision with two eyes ; the other on dew : a letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd, Lord Kenyon, and an account of a female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembled that of a negro ; with some observations on the causes of the differences in colour and form between the white and negro races of men / by the late William Charles Wells, with a memoir of his life, written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    a printer of a newspaper, for which he was wxll qualified from his previous educa- tion, being a good Latin scholar, and par- ticularly well read in history and the belles lettres; he had, besides, studied his own language grammatically, and wrote it with great correctness and purity. In these new employments, both character and ease of circumstances were acquired by him; in consequenee of the latter, he was enabled to send my elder brother, nearly five years older than myself, to a considerable grammar-school at Dumfries, which was then kept by a Mr. George Chapman. I was always my father^s favourite, and he, fearing that I should become tainted with the disloyal principles which began immediately after the peace of 1763 to prevail throughout America, obliged me to wear a tartan coat, and a blue Scotch bonnet; hoping, by these means, to make