BIB_ID
127930
Accession number
MA 552.61
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Display Date
1800 Dec. 9.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 31.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Noah Webster Esqr. / New Haven / Connecticut."
Docketed.
From the Ford Collection.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
From the Ford Collection.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Summary
Mentioning Webster's "account of pestilential diseases," and noting that he "took pains to promote its credit and sale" at a lecture he gave a few days ago; discussing the quarantine against yellow fever; quoting from [Jonathan] Swift.
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