To Benjamin Rush
Octr 26th 1812
Dear Sir
I take the liberty to introduce to you Mr Wm E. Horner of Virginia who is attending for the second winter, I believe, the medical believer in Phila. He is a young gentleman of respectable connections, good talents and most amiable in his disposition & deportment.
I am very respectfully Dr Sir yr mo. ob. Serv.
Bush. Washington
ALS, PPL: Rush Family Collection. Rush endorsed the letter and noted “B Washington Nephew of George Washington & one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the U. States.”