Short letter from Amer Stubbs to his brother Dr. Jeremiah B. Stubbs who was a prominent physician and Whig legislator in Lancaster County Pennsylvania.  The note mentions Rachel, Dr. Stubbs's wife.  Condition of the letter is very good. Only tear is where seal was broken and the is clean as it looks like it was cut rather than torn. Dateline for letter is Fifth day Evening 1 mo 13th/48 which is a Quaker style of dating.

Jeremiah Brown Stubbs, was born at what is now known as Wick’s Mill, Fulton township, on the 13th of April, 1804. When he was three years old his parents moved to Harford County, Md., having purchased a small property near the “Rocks of Deer Creek.” They remained there until 1821, when they returned to Lancaster County to reside on a property jointly inherited by the father and mother. After the return of the family to his native county, Jeremiah entered a mercantile establishment in Baltimore. Disliking the business, he returned home in a few months. Receiving encouragement and pecuniary aid from his maternal grandfather, Jeremiah Brown he was induced to enter one of the learned professions. With no advantages of a preparatory education, other than instructions received from a kind parent and the limited attainments secured by a few years’ attendance at a public school, he commenced the studyof medicine in the year 1824. Under direction of Dr. Vincent King, a well-known practitioner of southern Lancaster County, he attended two courses of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and graduated in the class of March 8, 1827. Receiving his medical degree he located at Rising Sun, Cecil Co., Md., where he practiced his profession for nine years. While there, Sept. 9, 1827, he was elected a member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Maryland. In the early days of his medical career, his labors to alleviate suffering humanity were unceasing. He practiced throughout a section of country many miles in extent. In 1844, he became a member of the Lancaster City and County Meical Society and afterwards president of that organization. In 1847, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania by the Whigs of Lancaster County and was reelected in 1848. He was married to Rachael H. Kirk and they had two sons; Charles who also became a physician, and Cassius who became an attorney. He died July 5, 1862.