Letters of Benjamin Rush : digital edition /

Letters of Benjamin Rush : digital edition /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Edition:	Digital edition
Imprint:	[Charlottesville, VA] : The University of Virginia Press : Rotunda, [2022] ©2022
Description:	1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations, portraits
Language:	English
Subject:	Rush, Benjamin, -- 1746-1813. Rush, Benjamin, -- 1746-1813 -- Correspondence. Rush, Julia Stockton -- Correspondence. Rush, Benjamin, -- 1746-1813. Rush, Julia Stockton. United States. -- Declaration of Independence -- Signers. Declaration of Independence (United States) Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Correspondence. Medicine -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources. Medicine -- History -- 18th century. Physicians. Medicine. Physicians. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources. United States -- History -- 1783-1815 -- Sources. Philadelphia (Pa.) Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. United States. Business correspondence. History. Personal correspondence. Sources. Personal correspondence. Business correspondence.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13093856
Related Items:	Contained in: American Founding Era. Contained in: American history collection.

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Varying Form of Title:	Letters of Benjamin Rush digital edition Also known as: Benjamin Rush letters digital edition
Other authors / contributors:	Butterfield, L. H. (Lyman Henry), 1909-1982. Fried, Stephen. University of Virginia. Press.
ISBN:	9780813948973 0813948975
Notes:	Title from opening screen (viewed April 14, 2023) This Rotunda edition of the Letters of Benjamin Rush reproduces the 2 volume edition published for the American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press in 1951. Includes bibliographical references (pages 1219-1229) and index. Rotunda editions were established by generous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the President's Office of the University of Virginia. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	"A member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence, surgeon general of the Continental Army, treasurer of the U.S. Mint--as well as an abolitionist and a proponent of wider access to education and the rights of women--Benjamin Rush had perhaps the most varied career of any American founder. His papers offer insights into a diverse range of issues and dramatic moments of the Revolutionary era and early republic"--Resource homepage, viewed April 14, 2023. Here, in two volumes, is a collection of over 650 letters (two-thirds of them never before printed) from the pen of Benjamin Rush. A signer of the Declaration of Independence and the 18th century's most distinguished American physician, Rush was also a politician, pamphleteer, social reformer, chemistry professor, psychiatrist, college founder, church founder, and "enthusiastic lifelong student of everything under the sun."--Book jacket (print version).