ALS, 1812 August 11 : Philadelphia, to unidentified recipient.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

ALS, 1812 August 11 : Philadelphia, to unidentified recipient.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15266817

An embittered letter written in the last year of Rush's life, he thanks this man for sending along his Certificate of Membership of the Royal Academy of Madrid and says: "Such notices of our labors serve to console us for the neglect and calumnies with which our opinions have been treated in our native country."

2 p. ; 26.5 x 21 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6860173

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc4xsr (person)

Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush attended the Continental Congress. His later self-description there was: "He aimed right." He served as Surgeon General of the Continental Army and became a profess...