Letters of Benjamin Rush : : Volume II: 1793-1813 / / ed. by Lyman Henry Butterfield.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• HerausgeberIn: Butterfield, Lyman Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1951
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5597
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (716 p.)

Volume 2 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 the 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- LETTERS, VOLUME II (1793-1813) -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Part IV. The Greatest Battle: Rush and the Yellow Fever 1793-1800 -- 1793 -- 1794 -- 1795 -- 1796 -- 1797 -- 1798 -- 1799 -- 1800 -- V. Literary Fame and Domestic Tranquillity 1801-1808 -- 1801 -- 1802 -- 1803 -- 1804 -- 1805 -- 1806 -- 1807 -- 1808 -- VI. Last Years of A Republican Physician 1809-1813 -- I8og -- 1810 -- 1811 -- 1812 -- 1813 -- Appendices -- List of Short Titles and Other Abbreviations -- INDEX