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Title: The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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erson Junr Phil\ Toiin McPherson Junr. 12 oclock, Philadelphia May 30th, 1767 Studying very hard. ... As to the Play you speak of,I take it to he The Disappointment, & can only say it wasvery well recd by the people here, who found no fault in it,but that it savored too much of partiality ; as the Collectoractually seized the Chest as the Kings property, &, with agreat deal of trouble, conveyed it on board a vessel then inthe River, intending to send it home. (Perhaps you maynot have heard who were the actors of this real farce, & yetmaybe acquainted with some of them, Quadrant is intendedfor an old Instrument maker, by name Cappock, Hum forone Yeates a Tavern Keeper, Parchment for Reily the dec*Scrivener, Rattletrap for one Rudiman Robeson, formerly aCommander of a Vessel, Racoon lor Swan the Flatter, Wat-ball for an old deca Barber called Dixon, Trushoop lor amerry countryman of yours, k Mr Snip tor a foolish one ofmine.) This Play never was acted here, the opposition to
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V Extracts from Letters of John Macpherson, Jr.y 1760-1773. 53 it being so great as not to admit of it. Racoon swore that itmight begin in a Comedy, but that he would make it end ina Tragedy. The authors of the Prologue & Epilogue areunknown to any. Jack McPherson. Phila Tuesday Nov. 17. 1767 This day was the Commencement held here, when onlyiive commenced Bachelors. After Prayer, Bankson pro-nounced a Salutatory Oration. This was one of the best per-formances of the day. The Latin was well articulated, & butfor a tone that ran thro the whole pronunciation, it was verycompleat. We were then entertained with an English dis-pute, opened by Tilghman (who alone it is said composedhis own piece) who was opposed Iry Johnson. Banksonwound up, & bore the bell as the phrase is. Then theyproduced a Latin dispute, irx which Wallace was Resp, &Tilghman k Swift opponents. This was ill done. TheLatin was ill pronounced, & there was no action, for theyspoke from desks. White, a m

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