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Box 3

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Contains 8 Results:

Title page and unpaginated text

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F22
Scope and Contents

These leaves may represent a previous draft of the document that appears in F23 or a different section of the final work. Each Page bears significant annotations and revisions. Title page includes an epigraph from Romans 2:1.

Text pages 1-4, 4, 6, 10-11, 16-27

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F23
Scope and Contents

These pages are inconsistently paginated and may represent fragments of various versions. The pages bear numerous revisions throughout.

Letter extracts related to Dr. Benjamin Rush, pp. 1-10

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F24
Scope and Contents

Pages one and two reproduce letters published in Thomas Jefferson Randolph ed. Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4. (Charlottesville, Va: F. Carr and Co., 1829).

Biography of Benjamin Rush

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F28
Scope and Contents

Anonymously authored typescript describing the life of Dr. Benjamin Rush. Annotated 10pp. This was published in John Welsh Croskey comp., History of Blockley: A History of the Philadelphia General Hospital from its inception, 1731-1928, (Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1929), 526-532.

Pages A-331 to A-342, A-350 to A-364, and B-1 to B-2.

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F31
Scope and Contents

These pages correspond to published pages 308-318, 324-337. The pages in the B series appear not to have been published, they record letters to Dr. Benjamin Rush from John Quincy Adams, June 15, 1812; and from Samuel Adams April 14, 1785.