RUSH, BENJAMIN, Signer (Pennsylvania) . Autograph endorsement signed ("Benj: Rush"), [Philadelphia ?], 31 October 1776. Four lines plus signature and dateline, written on the lower blank portion of a petition of Ezekiel Letts to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety 1 page, 1 page, folio, 305 x 210 mm. (12 x 8¼ in.), backed, edges a bit worn, light stains at folds, attractively matted and framed with an engraved portrait . RUSH RECOMMENDS AN OFFICER WHO WISHES TO RETURN TO THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AFTER HIS CONVALESCENCE The attractive calligraphic petition explains that Letts, "late Lieutenant in Col[onel] Anthony Waynes Battalion, having laboured under a long sickness and become exceedingly weak," had been granted a "discharge for recovery of his health" by General Wayne. Now, "having recovered and growing hearty" he "offer[s] himself a Candidate for a Captaincy in the Eleventh Batallion..." Rush, as a member of the Council of Safety, gives a glowing endorsement, "I have had the pleasure of knowing M[r.] Letts for several years, and beg leave to recommend him as a prudent, sensible, worthy man, by war only attached to the American cause..."
RUSH, BENJAMIN, Signer (Pennsylvania) . Autograph endorsement signed ("Benj: Rush"), [Philadelphia ?], 31 October 1776. Four lines plus signature and dateline, written on the lower blank portion of a petition of Ezekiel Letts to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety 1 page, 1 page, folio, 305 x 210 mm. (12 x 8¼ in.), backed, edges a bit worn, light stains at folds, attractively matted and framed with an engraved portrait . RUSH RECOMMENDS AN OFFICER WHO WISHES TO RETURN TO THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AFTER HIS CONVALESCENCE The attractive calligraphic petition explains that Letts, "late Lieutenant in Col[onel] Anthony Waynes Battalion, having laboured under a long sickness and become exceedingly weak," had been granted a "discharge for recovery of his health" by General Wayne. Now, "having recovered and growing hearty" he "offer[s] himself a Candidate for a Captaincy in the Eleventh Batallion..." Rush, as a member of the Council of Safety, gives a glowing endorsement, "I have had the pleasure of knowing M[r.] Letts for several years, and beg leave to recommend him as a prudent, sensible, worthy man, by war only attached to the American cause..."
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