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1 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 August 1777 | 1777-08-08 | In Observing the different operation of Whig principles upon different people, I have been led to... |
2 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 1 October 1777 | 1777-10-01 | It would have given me great pleasure to have Spent an hour with you in this place After my... |
3 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 October 1777 | 1777-10-13 | I have little to add to the long letter I wrote to you a few days ago, but that the event of the... |
4 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 October 1777 | 1777-10-21 | I fear you will class me with the weeping philosophers of antiquity, but I cannot help it. He who... |
5 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 31 October 1777 | 1777-10-31 | The disorders of our Army do not proceed from any natural faults in our men. On the contrary I... |
6 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 January 1778 | 1778-01-22 | Yorktown, 22 January 1778. RC ( Adams Papers ); printed : Benjamin Rush, Letters Letters of... |
7 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 February 1778 | 1778-02-08 | Lancaster, 8 February 1778. RC ( Adams Papers ); printed : Benjamin Rush, Letters Letters of... |
8 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 27 October 1778 | 1778-10-27 | Your letter written a few days before your embarkation from for France, lays me under an... |
9 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 August 1779 | 1779-08-19 | The same Opinion of your Abilities and Zeal for our country which made me rejoice in your... |
10 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 October 1779 | 1779-10-12 | Accept of my thanks for your early and puntual Attention to my letter. I have ever thought myself... |
11 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 October 1779 | 1779-10-19 | I cannot help troubling you with a second Answer to your letters on purpose to congratulate you... |
12 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 28 April 1780 | 1780-04-28 | This letter will be handed to you by Dr. John Foulke (a Graduate in our University) a young... |
13 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 July 1780 | 1780-07-13 | The reduction—I will not say loss of Charlestown has produced a new Era in the politicks of... |
14 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 25 August 1780 | 1780-08-25 | Behold the fruits of the french Alliance! Our young men no longer look upon Great Britain as... |
15 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 23 October 1780 | 1780-10-23 | The discovery of Arnold’s treachery, and the new Bennington Affair in the South, have given fresh... |
16 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 January 1781 | 1781-01-21 | Your favor of Sepr. 20 from Amsterdam came safe to hand. The contents of it were of so important... |
17 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 23 June 1781 | 1781-06-23 | The bearer Mr. George Harrison intends to spend a few years in a compting house in Amsterdam. He... |
18 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 28 September 1782 | 1782-09-28 | Accept of my congratulations upon the Success of your negociations at the Hague. Your countrymen... |
19 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 July 1788 | 1788-07-02 | Permit an old friend to congratulate you upon your safe arrival in your native country. I... |
20 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 January 1789 | 1789-01-22 | Your affectionate and instructing letter of Decem r 2 nd: did not reach me ’till yesterday.— I... |
21 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 February 1789 | 1789-02-21 | Few events have happened since the 17th of septem r: 1788, which have afforded me more pleasure... |
22 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 March 1789 | 1789-03-19 | From the influence as president of the senate, and a Citizen of massachussets, that you will have... |
23 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 April 1789 | 1789-04-22 | Accept of my sincere Congratulations upon your arrival in new york, and upon your advancement to... |
24 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 June 1789 | 1789-06-04 | I find you, & I must agree , NOT to disagree , or we must cease to discuss political questions. I... |
25 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 June 1789 | 1789-06-15 | I have been so long accustomed to regard all your opinions upon goverment with reverence, that I... |
26 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 July 1789 | 1789-07-21 | From an unfortunate concurrence of circumstances, I find myself under the influence of the same... |
27 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 February 1790 | 1790-02-12 | Ever since the last week in Octo r I have been engaged in composing & delivering a new Course of... |
28 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 February 1790 | 1790-02-24 | Your remarks upon the Conduct of the tories, and the “young fry” who are now crouding into the... |
29 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 April 1790 | 1790-04-13 | Your last letter is a treasure.— Every Sentence in it is full of instruction. I have often... |
30 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 February 1805 | 1805-02-19 | Your letter of the 6th: instant revived a great many pleasant ideas in my mind. I have not... |
31 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 23 March 1805 | 1805-03-23 | Philadelphia March 23rd: 1805 I was much gratified by your early answer to my letter, and by your... |
32 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 29 June 1805 | 1805-06-29 | Having been called upon lately to bear a part in the examination & exercises of twenty four... |
33 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 August 1805 | 1805-08-14 | Your letters are full of aphorisms. Every paragraph in them suggests new ideas, or revives old... |
34 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 September 1805 | 1805-09-21 | The hurry always connected with the prevalence of a yellow fever in our City; has prevented my... |
35 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 November 1805 | 1805-11-21 | I am pleased in reflecting that I destroyed all the documents and Anecdotes I had collected for... |
36 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 January 1806 | 1806-01-06 | I committed to Mr Vanhan a few days ago, a copy of the new edition of my medical Inquiries and... |
37 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 March 1806 | 1806-03-15 | I avail myself of the first leisure hour I have had since the Conclusion of my lectures to... |
38 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 10 June 1806 | 1806-06-10 | My long delay in answering your last letter has arisen from two causes—an unusual share of... |
39 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 June 1806 | 1806-06-26 | Herewith you will receive a small publication that contains several new Opinions in Physiology,... |
40 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 11 July 1806 | 1806-07-11 | At the request of my Wife I called upon a friend of mine a few days ago to borrow “the secret... |
41 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 August 1806 | 1806-08-22 | You ascribe wonders to the influence of Silence and Secrecy in public men. I agree with you in... |
42 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 October 1806 | 1806-10-24 | Ever since the receipt of your last letter I have passed my days like an arrow shot from a bow.... |
43 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 25 November 1806 | 1806-11-25 | I have seldom been more highly gratified than by the receipt of your letter of Novr 11th. The... |
44 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 23 January 1807 | 1807-01-23 | I have been waiting like Horace’s Clown till the Stream of my business should so far lessen that... |
45 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 3 April 1807 | 1807-04-03 | The difficult and complicated labors of my professorship consisting of teaching, examining,... |
46 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 April 1807 | 1807-04-22 | I enclose you the letter I mentioned in my last, from the person whom I supposed to be your son... |
47 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 May 1807 | 1807-05-12 | In one of your former letters you say as an excuse for your not assuming the reserve of certain... |
48 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 9 June 1807 | 1807-06-09 | Permit me to trouble you with the delivery of the enclosed letter to Dr Tufts. It contains an... |
49 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 9 July 1807 | 1807-07-09 | I once met Alexander Cruden the Author of the Concordance of the Scriptures at Charles Dilly’s.... |
50 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 31 October 1807 | 1807-10-31 | I am ashamed of my long silence after the receipt of the two last letters from my kind friend and... |