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Nice, detailed letter from Dr. Benjamin Rush...
Nice, detailed letter from Dr. Benjamin Rush...
Item # 702244
April 23, 1787
THE MORNING CHRONICLE & LONDON ADVERTISER, England, April 23, 1787
* Founding father Dr. Benjamin Rush letter
* Declaration of Independence signer
Page 2 features a full column that includes a letter from Benjamin Rush, a Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The letter was sent to Dr. Richard Price in the UK, a political reformer active in the cause of the American Revolution, Dr Price has been described by a historian as "the greatest Welsh thinker of all time," and was well connected with many on the international ‘revolutionary’ stage, including Washington, Jefferson, Adams, & Mirabeau.
The letter covers several subjects, including the termination of insurrections in Massachusetts Bay, the resolution of the land dispute between Pennsylvania and Connecticut without the effusion of blood, and that Americans are in a yielding state ready to adopt plans that are calculated to promote their happiness. Dr Rush also refers to the Legislature adopting a plan for the establishment of schools in Pennsylvania and that they granted a charter and 10,000 acres of land to a college in Lancaster for the benefit of Germans. It reports the college will become an additional vehicle of the name of Dr. Franklin to future generations and that he has given it a very handsome endowment. This presumably refers to what is now the Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster.
He goes on to comment on Dickinson College, the newly established College of Physicians and a Society for ‘political enquiries’, with Ben Franklin as President.
Four pages, red tax stamp on the front page, archivally rejoined at the spine, nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's