Letters of Benjamin Rush. Volume I, 1761-1792 / edited by Lyman Henry Butterfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butterfield, L. H. (Lyman Henry), 1909-1982, editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5594

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--Correspondence.

Physicians.

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.

Rush, Benjamin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (724 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1951.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Volume 1 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush's Autobiography. Written between 1761 and 1813, the letters trace Rush's career, from student in Scotland and England to signer of the Declaration of Independence and Philadelphia's leading physician. He writes to John Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, WItherspoon, and a host of others. Two fascinating series of letters chronicle the failures of the hospital service in the Revolutionary War and teh Philadelphia yellow-fever epidemic of 1793. Rush the private individual is revealed in the letters to his wife. Published for the American Philosophical Society. Lyman Butterfield is associate editor of The Papers of Thomas JeffersonOriginally published in 1951.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Scope And Method

Acknowledgments

Key To Editorial Apparatus

Letters, Volume I (1761-1792)

I. Apprenticeship, Studies In Europe, And Establishment In Philadelphia, 1761-1774

I. Chronology

1761

1762

1764

1765

1766

1767

1768

1769

1770

1773

1774

II. Love And Patriotism: A Physician In The Revolution 1775-1783

II. Chronology

1775

1776

1777

1778

1779

1780

1781

1782

1783

III. Completing The Revolution: A Multitude Of Causes, 1784-1792

III. Chronology

1784

1785

1786

1787

1788

1789

1790

1791

1792

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-62735-5

0-691-20075-0

OCLC:

1103673347