Autograph letter (fragment) signed from Benjamin Rush to Dr. Thomas Percival? [mansucript], 18th or 19th century.

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Autograph letter (fragment) signed from Benjamin Rush to Dr. Thomas Percival? [mansucript], 18th or 19th century.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/688512460

Fragment of a letter possibly to Thomas Percival. Rush describes himself as a fellow labourer in medicine.

1 leaf ; 10 x 19 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7974289

Folger Shakespeare Library

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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...

Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804

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Epithet: of Add MS 32707 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000149.0x000005 Thomas Percival, English physician. From the guide to the Thomas Percival manuscript material : 1 item, 1787, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...