Hartshorne.] J-"^ [Oct. 11, 



Still, he planned, and wrote the greater part of a novel 

 of his own ; which I have seen in manuscript. It was 

 never published. 



Amongst the papers above referred to there is, under 

 the date of 1814, "An Oration spoken before the Citi- 

 zens of Philadelphia, on the Independence of the United 

 States," This was delivered a year before his gradua- 

 tion at the University. In the year 181 7, he contri- 

 buted to Poulson's American Daily Advertiser a very 

 spirited reply to an aspersion upon the Society of 

 Friends, charging its members with a want of charity 

 outside of their own borders, which had been published 

 in the Portfolio of that day. The editor of the latter 

 periodical replied, withdrawing, or essentially modify- 

 ing, his injurious expressions. 



Upon leaving the Collegiate Department of the Uni- 

 versity, young Wood began the study of Medicine as 

 the office student of Dr. Joseph Parrish. His advan- 

 tages there were decidedly superior ; and he availed 

 himself of them so well as to become, after his gradua- 

 tion in Medicine at the University in 1818, his pre- 

 ceptor's associate in giving instruction to students. A 

 private medical school grew out of this association ; 

 in which a number of our most eminent physicians and 

 surgeons, of the generation now passing away, took 

 part, first as pupils, and some of them afterwards as 

 instructors. Under such circumstances, Dr. Wood 

 matured those convictions upon practical medicine and 

 medical ethics which he inculcated through his whole 



