Early Travels
Born in 1779 in Charleston, South Carolina to Dr. Elisha Poinsett and his wife Katherine Ann Roberts, he was educated in Connecticut and Europe, gaining expertise in medicine and the law.
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“Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans—which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“... forgotten signs
all bringing the soul’s travels to a place
of origin, a well
under the lake where the Muse moves.”
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