12mo. 23pp, [1]. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's drab wrappers. A trifle creased and spotted.

The first edition of a compilation of devotional extracts from the diary of American physician and Quaker Samuel Emlen (1789-1828), together with a succinct biography by his colleague and close personal friend Charles Meigs (1792-1869). Emlen travelled extensively in Europe, and was stranded for a time in London following the outbreak of the war of 1812. He was elected as a physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1825.