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Title
Letter to Horatio Gates, Rose Hill, near New York
Names
Rush, Benjamin (Author)
Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Addressee)
Collection

Thomas Addis Emmet collection

The Members of the Continental Congress, 1774-1779

Pennsylvania and Delaware

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1803-07-27
Place: Philadelphia, Pa.
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
Topics
United States. Continental Congress
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: A. L. S. Endorsed. 4 pp. Fo
Description
Prescribes a regimen useful in alleviating the pains of old age; hopes he will live to see not only the close of the present war between England and France, but universal liberty and the extinction of all wars; would gladly come to visit him, but "a large and expensive family chain me to the pestle and mortar;" recalls the day they passed together in 1777, when Gates was on his way to oppose Burgoyne, and the plans they made for national happiness; a postscript says that as he now confines his labors to his patients, without combating ignorance and error, he is kindly tolerated by his fellow citizens.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11868616
MSS Unit ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 898
Archives EAD ID: 275391
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 3167f4c0-6a40-0139-03f5-0242ac110002
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1803: Created
  • 2022: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1803). Letter to Horatio Gates, Rose Hill, near New York Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b9b9341d-2888-4a83-e040-e00a18062ea1

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Letter to Horatio Gates, Rose Hill, near New York