Excerpt from A Memorial Containing Travels Through Life or Sundry Incidents in the Life of Dr. Benjamin Rush

My Dear Friend - Can you bear to read a letter that has nothing in it about politics or war? I will, without waiting for an answer to this question, trespass upon your patience, by writing to you upon another subject.

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