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- GLC#
- GLC05508.011-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 9, 1790
- Author/Creator
- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
- Title
- to Polly Stockton
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 6 p. : address : Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
On the second anniversary of his recovery from illness, Rush thanks his sister for nursing him. His illness left him with strong ideas of the vanity of wealth, the evil of Sin, etc. He continues by talking about his delight in reading John Wesley's sermons concerning the rise and progress of Christianity, which Wesley described as a series of concentric circles. Rush also discusses a new translation of the four gospels by Dr. Campell of Aberdeen.
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