Research Catalog

Title

Occasional productions, political, diplomatic, and miscellaneous : including, among others, a glance at the court and government of Louis Philippe and the French revolution of 1848, while the author resided as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the United States at Paris / by the late Richard Rush ; edited by his executors, with a copious index.

Author

Rush, Richard, 1780-1859

Publication

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rush, Benjamin, 1811-1877
• Rush, James Murray, 1813-1862
• J.B. Lippincott & Co., publisher.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.
• Bancroft Collection.
• Ford Collection.

Description

xliii, [25]-535 pages : frontispiece (portrait), 2 facsimiles; 23 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

• Washington, George, 1732-1799
• 1830-1848
• Diplomatic relations
• Politics and government
• United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > France
• France > Foreign relations > United States
• France > Politics and government > 1830-1848
• France > History > February Revolution, 1848
• France
• Great Britain
• United States

Genre/Form

• History.
• Bookplates (Provenance.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Provenance (note)

• Copy in MARB Sc Rare 308 - R (accession no. E001062) includes NYPL's bookplate of: "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection."

Contents

Introduction -- Synopsis of a few familiar letters of Washington to his private secretary, Colonel Lear, with the author's reflections ; Washington's reception of the news of St. Clair's defeat ; His account, at his own dinner-table, of Arnold's treason -- Washington, LaFayette, and Mr. Bradford ; A sketch in part from memory -- Character of Mr. Calhoun -- Letter referring to the question of African slavery, and the compromise act of 1850 -- Speech at the meeting of the friends of the Constitution and union, held in Philadelphia, November, 1850 -- Letter to Mr. Trescot of South Carolina upon public and domestic subjects -- Second letter to Mr. Trescot on the same subjects, with references to the achievements of the United States on the ocean during the War of 1812 -- Character of Mr. Canning -- Letter from Paris to the chairman of the committee of the national convention of the Democratic party of the United States -- Essay : value of early efforts at excellence -- Essay : labor necessary to eminence -- Letter to Mrs. Rush, from London, describing a visit in 1836 to Grove Park, the seat of the earl of Clarendon -- Letter to Mrs. Rush, from London, describing a visit at Christmas, 1836, to Hagley, the seat of Lord Lyttelton -- Letter to Mrs. Rush on the death of William the Fourth, and accession of Queen Victoria to the throne -- Correspondence with the secretary of state, Mr. Marcy, upon the construction of the first article of the treaty of 1818, in relation to the Newfoundland fisheries -- A glance at the court and government of Louis Philippe in 1847-48, and the French revolution of 1848 which followed, while the author resided as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris.

Call Number

Sc Rare 308-R (Rush, R. Occasional productions)

LCCN

15018496

OCLC

444983

Author

Rush, Richard, 1780-1859, author.

Title

Occasional productions, political, diplomatic, and miscellaneous : including, among others, a glance at the court and government of Louis Philippe and the French revolution of 1848, while the author resided as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the United States at Paris / by the late Richard Rush ; edited by his executors, with a copious index.

Publisher

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes index.

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 7, page 6572, column 1, row 3-4 & 5-6

Provenance

Copy in MARB Sc Rare 308 - R (accession no. E001062) includes NYPL's bookplate of: "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection." NN

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is probably one of the books added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian, and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator; Imperfect: loose pages, bound in hunter green cloth over boards library binding, and gilt spine.

Source

Copy in MARB Sc Rare 308 - R; E001062. NN

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Chronological Term

1830-1848

Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Added Author

Rush, Benjamin, 1811-1877, editor.

Rush, James Murray, 1813-1862, editor.

J.B. Lippincott & Co., publisher.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.

Bancroft Collection.

Ford Collection.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Other Form:

Online version: Rush, Richard, 1780-1859. Occasional productions, political, diplomatic, and miscellaneous. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860 (OCoLC)645870847

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 308-R (Rush, R. Occasional productions)

IAG (Rush, R. Occasional productions)