Letter to William Gordon, near Boston
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Title
Letter to William Gordon, near Boston
Collection
Thomas Addis Emmet collection
The Signers to the Declaration of Independence
Pennsylvania. Part I
Names
Rush, Benjamin (Author)
Gordon, William (Addressee)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1773-10-10
Place: Philadelphia, Pa.
Library Location
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
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Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: A. L. S. Endorsed. 2 pp. Fo
Abstract
He was glad to hear from [Thomas] Mifflin of Gordon's happiness and increasing usefulness; he sends two recent productions of his own; the Vindication of his Address [on Slave-Keeping] will rectify Gordon's notions as to the state of slavery amongst the Jews; he has sent a copy to Samuel Elliott, with a view to republication in Boston; they are preparing to oppose the landing of the East India tea; the pieces in the newspapers signed Scaevola are written by Mifflin, those signed Hamden are by himself; the competition with which he has long struggled from his brethren of the faculty extends to all his publications, and the negro cause in Philadelphia has on this account suffered through him; any notice that Gordon may take of his publications will therefore be the more acceptable.
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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 2906
Archives EAD ID: 276054
Archives Components ID: 1112
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 71296240-6a41-0139-f24e-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to William Gordon, near Boston" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1773. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/71296240-6a41-0139-f24e-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1773). Letter to William Gordon, near Boston Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/71296240-6a41-0139-f24e-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to William Gordon, near Boston" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/71296240-6a41-0139-f24e-0242ac110002
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