ELIHU HUBBARD SMITH, born in Litchfield, Conn., September 4, 1771,
died in New York, September 21, 1798, a graduate of Yale and
physician of Philadelphia, where his father was also a noted doctor.
He wrote a number of poems and sonnets for the magazines. He edited
the first collection (1793) ever made of American poetry. Founder
with Drs. Edward Miller and Samuel L. Mitchell of _The Medical
Repository_. His death was caused by yellow fever contracted from a
patient, a stranger who was taken by him into his own house for
treatment.
EDWIN AND ANGELINA; OR, THE BANDITTI. An Opera in Three Acts. New
York: T. and J. Swords, 1797. 8vo, pp. 72.
Played at the John Street Theatre, New York, December 19, 1796.
When printed it was preceded by a dedication to Reuben and Abigail
Smith, the author's parents.