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1 THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME LXXVIII THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA

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3 STAFF Director R. NORRIS WILLIAMS, 2D Research Librarian and Editor NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Associate Editor LOIS V. GIVEN Assistant in Charge of the Reading Room GEORGE H. FAIRCHILD Assistant in Charge of Manuscripts Division J. HARCOURT GIVENS Index Librarian EUGENE E. DOLL Assistant in Charge of Photo-reproduction HOWARD T. MITCHELL Assistant to the Treasurer SARA B. POMERANTZ Annual membership $10.00 Life membership PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE, per annum (to non-members) 3.75 Payments may be made at the Hall of the Society, 1300 Locust Street

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5 THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY JANUARY 1954 FURTHER LETTERS OF BENJAMIN RUSH. H. Butterfield 3 THE FIRST BOOKS AND PRINTED CATALOGUES OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA Edwin Wolf 2nd 45 A PORTUGUESE NATURALIST IN PHILADELPHIA, 1799 Robert C. Smith 71 JOSEPH CARSON, BOOK REVIEWS 108 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 137 PUBLISHED SINCE 1877 BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUME LXXVIII NUMBER 1

6 BOOK REVIEWS PAGE NOBLE, The Man in Leather Breeches. The Life and Times of George Fox, by Edwin B. Bronner 108 MORGAN and MORGAN, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution, by Arthur L. Jensen 109 SCOTT, Counterfeiting in Colonial New York, by Evan B. Alderfer 111 JOHNSON, Swedish Contributions to American Freedom, , Vol. I, by Leon devalinger, Jr. 112 SWIGGETT, The Great Man. George Washington as a Human Being, by John R. Alden 113 PINKOWSKI, Washington's Officers Slept Here. Historic Homes of Valley Forge and Its Neighborhood, by McCready Huston 115 UNDERHILL, Red Man's America. A History of Indians in the United States, by John Witthoft 116 WHITE, ed., Philadelphia Architecture in the Nineteenth Century, by Harold Donaldson Eberlein 119 ANDREWS, The People Called Shakers. A Search for the Perfect Society, by Audubon R. Davis 121 TRAUBEL, With Walt Whitman in Camden, January 21 to April 7, 1889, by Albert Mordell 123 CAWLEY, ed., The American Diaries of Richard Cobden, by John J. Reed 125 CRAVEN, The Growth of Southern Nationalism, , by Frank L. Owsley 126 QUARLES, The Negro in the Civil War, by Ulysses G. Lee, Jr. 127 STORR, The Beginnings of Graduate Education in America, by Elmer Ellis 129 GREEN WAY, American Folk Songs of Protest, by Louis C. Jones 130 CAREY, American Firearms Makers, by Henry J. Kauffman 132 WEAVER, Autobiography of a Pennsylvania Dutchman, by J. Bennett Nolan 133 Historic Philadelphia from the Founding until the Early Nineteenth Century. Papers Dealing with its People and Buildings with an Illustrative Map 133 KREBS and RUBINCAM, Emigrants from the Palatinate to the American Colonies in the 18th Century 134 DODD, The Character of the Early Welsh Emigration to the United States 134 ANDERSEN, The Immigrant Takes His Stand. The Norwegian-American Press and Public Affairs, MUNROE, Delaware Becomes A State 135 STEPHENSON, comp., The Clymer-Cherryhill Story 136 SCHWEGMANN, comp., Newspapers on Microfilm 136 THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY is published each quarter in January, April, July and October by THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia 7. Yearly subscription, $3.75; single numbers $1.25. Communications should be addressed to the Editor. The Editors do not assume responsibility for statements of fact or of opinion made by contributors. Entered as second-class matter March 1, 1889, at the Post Office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under act of March 3, 1879.

7 THE PENNSYLVANIA " MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY LXXVIII January, 1954 NO. 1 SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION Publications Committee CONYERS READ ROY F. NICHOLS BOIES PENROSE WILLIAM W. COMFORT R. NORRIS WILLIAMS, 2ND Editor NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Associate Editor LOIS V. GIVEN

8 Contributors L. H. BUTTERFIELD is Director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Wilhamsburg, Virginia. His long-time interest in the career of Dr. Benjamin Rush led to the publication in 1951 of his Letters to benjamin Rush. He is also the author of John JVitherspoon Comes to America, recently published by the Princeton University Library. EDWIN WOLF 2ND, distinguished bibliographer, was appointed Curator of the Library Company of Philadelphia early in He is now engaged in an important program of rehabilitating and recataloguing the rare books of that library. ROBERT C. SMITH is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His wide knowledge of the history and art of Portugal and Brazil is supplemented by his interest in American architectural forms. He has published articles in both fields, and was a contributor to Philadelphia Architecture in the Nineteenth Century (1953). PRINTED IN i". s. A. by Wm. F. Fell Co., PHILADELPHIA, PA.