RUSH, BENJAMIN, Signer (Pennsylvania). Autograph letter signed (in third person, signature "Dr. Rush" in text) to Davis Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, Philadelphia, 27 November 1801. One page, small 4to, integral blank with recipient's docket, minor foxing to blank. Rush (l746-l813), Philadelphia's most eminent physician and teacher, presents a copy of one of his books to an eminent Scot. "Lord Buchan is respectfully requested to accept of a copy of six lectures delivered [by Rush] in the University of Pennsylvania by his Lordship's sincere friend Dr. Rush. The Dr. is happy in being able to inform his Lordship, that the misses Palmers and their Brothers, have met with many kind friends in our city, and there is now no doubt of their being soon comfortably established in easy circumstances amongst us. In another hand at the extreme bottom of the sheet is written, "O what a Blessing it is to Bless & to Save Mankind!" Rush's correspondent, Buchan (1742-1829), was a noted Scots antiquary and literary figure acquainted with Burns, Walter Scott and Horace Walpole; he claimed to be a cousin of George Washington and "was in the habit of showing special attention to the distinguished Americans who visited" Great Britain (see DNB). The book in question is probably Rush's Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia 1798).
RUSH, BENJAMIN, Signer (Pennsylvania). Autograph letter signed (in third person, signature "Dr. Rush" in text) to Davis Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, Philadelphia, 27 November 1801. One page, small 4to, integral blank with recipient's docket, minor foxing to blank. Rush (l746-l813), Philadelphia's most eminent physician and teacher, presents a copy of one of his books to an eminent Scot. "Lord Buchan is respectfully requested to accept of a copy of six lectures delivered [by Rush] in the University of Pennsylvania by his Lordship's sincere friend Dr. Rush. The Dr. is happy in being able to inform his Lordship, that the misses Palmers and their Brothers, have met with many kind friends in our city, and there is now no doubt of their being soon comfortably established in easy circumstances amongst us. In another hand at the extreme bottom of the sheet is written, "O what a Blessing it is to Bless & to Save Mankind!" Rush's correspondent, Buchan (1742-1829), was a noted Scots antiquary and literary figure acquainted with Burns, Walter Scott and Horace Walpole; he claimed to be a cousin of George Washington and "was in the habit of showing special attention to the distinguished Americans who visited" Great Britain (see DNB). The book in question is probably Rush's Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia 1798).
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