Autograph Draft Letter

Concerning the spread of fever in Philadelphia

McHenry asks Benjamin Rush, a physician, for his advice on whether or not he should remove the War Office from the city of Philadelphia, which was suffering from the spread of fever.

1797

08

22

War Office

Benjamin Rush

James McHenry

doctor

War Office

Philadelphia

Expense

Fever

sickness

health

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22 Augt 1797
To Doctr Rush


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War office 22 Augt 1797

Dear Sir

The various and contradictory reports

respecting the degree of danger from the prevailing
fever which those who remain oin town are
exposed to, and the little dependence I have in
any opinion I can form from the facts in cir:

culation have induced me to take the liberty

to request your advice whether it would not
be proper to remove the war office for to some
distance from the city. I pray you to excuse
this liberty intrusion and to ascribe it to the seriousness
of the occasion and a wish to avoid to the
public unneccessary expence.

I have the honour to be
Dr Sir
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