1From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 17 May 1789 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 19 of March deserves a particular consideration and answer, which I have not,...
2To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
I find you, & I must agree , NOT to disagree , or we must cease to discuss political questions. I...
3From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 9 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
No! You and I will not cease to discuss political questions: but We will agree to disagree ,...
4To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have been so long accustomed to regard all your opinions upon goverment with reverence, that I...
5From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
Your Single Principle, in your Letter of the 15 th must fail you.— You say “that Republican...
6From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
Without waiting for an Answer to my last, I will take a little more notice of a Sentiment in one...
7From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 15 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have read D r Rush, de moribus Germanorum, with pleasure. As I am a great lover of paradoxes,...
8To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
From an unfortunate concurrence of circumstances, I find myself under the influence of the same...
9From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 24 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have persecuted you, too much with my Letters.— I beg you would give yourself no trouble to...
10From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
“The Characters, I So much admire among the ancients,” were not “formed wholly by Republican...
11From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 February 1790 (Adams Papers)
I cannot give up my dear Latin and Greek although Fortune has never permitted me to enjoy so much...
12To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 February 1790 (Adams Papers)
Ever since the last week in Octo r I have been engaged in composing & delivering a new Course of...
13From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, [17] February 1790 (Adams Papers)
I had heard, before I rec d your Letter of the 12 th , of your new Engagements in the Colledge...
14To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 18 February 1790 (Madison Papers)
I expected that the establishment of the federal Goverment, and the reformation of the...
15To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 February 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your remarks upon the Conduct of the tories, and the “young fry” who are now crouding into the...
16To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 27 February 1790 (Madison Papers)
In answer to your polite letter, I have only to repeat my congratulations to you for the honor...
17From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 7 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
Altho’ your last favour of the 27 Ult: does not require any particular answer, I can not let this...
18To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 10 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
I once knew a Swedish Clergyman in this city, who told me that when he preached in the Country,...
19From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 20 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
I recd. your favor of the 10th. instant some days ago. Altho’ I feel the force of many of your...
20From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 April 1790 (Adams Papers)
The Tories as you observe in your friendly Letter of 24 Feb. are more attached to each other;...
21To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 10 April 1790 (Madison Papers)
I congratulate you upon the prospect of the funding System being delayed ’till the next session...
22To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 April 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your last letter is a treasure.— Every Sentence in it is full of instruction. I have often...
23From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of April 13, soars above the visible diurnal Sphære.— I own to you that avarice...
24To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 24 April 1790 (Madison Papers)
… [Encloses a pamphlet with the request] that you would not suffer it to go out of your hands...
25From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 3 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 3 May 1790. Offered for sale in the Parke-Bernet Catalogue No. 468, May 1943.
26From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, [3 May 1790] (Madison Papers)
… Your hint as to addresses from the H. of Rep. to the National Assembly was perfectly new. I am...
27From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 3 May 1790 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 May 1790, New York. “Your hint as to addresses from the H. of Rep. to the National Assembly was...
28To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 4 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
Your proposition for doing justice to the late Army of the United States becomes both popular &...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 4 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer Mr. Tench Coxe who has been called upon to share in the toils of our new Goverment,...
30From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1790 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to introduce to you the Bearer Count Andreani a young nobleman from Milan, who after...
31To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 17 July 1790 (Madison Papers)
Count Andreani is just such a man as you have described him to be in your letter. Is it not...
32From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 31 July 1790 (Madison Papers)
I am just favored with your Eulogium on Docr. Cullen which from the taste of a page or two...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 15 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this letter Mr. Andrew Brown has applied to me as One among many witnesses of his...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 4 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Soon after the accession of Mr: Mifflin to the Government of Pennsylvania, he gratified his...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 17 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Being obliged to lecture every day at 4 oClock, it will not be in my power to accept of your kind...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 26 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a few copies of the tract on the manufactory of Maple Sugar. It owes its existence...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 26 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer John Hall, a freeman has been encouraged to apply to you to dispose of one of your...
38From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Rush, [13 August 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, August 13, 1792. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads:...
39From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 1 October 1792 (Madison Papers)
I thank you my dear Sir for the obliging communications in your letter of the 10th Sepr. which I...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 28 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer Mr. Parry Hall wishes to reprint your notes on the state of Virginia . He is One of...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 3 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson being engaged in packing his books will thank Dr. Rush for the volumes lent him if...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Dr. Rush and will be happy if he can take a dinner with...
43Edmund Randolph to Benjamin Rush, 24 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
26 June 1794. Encloses Heinrich Matthias Marcard’s letter to GW of 5 Aug. 1793, which GW gave to...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 1 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this letter Mr. Weld a young Gentleman of amiable manners, and good education was...
45To John Jay from Benjamin Rush, 9 July 1796 (Jay Papers)
The bearer of this letter is Caleb Lownes—a respectable Merchant of our city, and a gentleman to...
46To John Jay from Benjamin Rush, 2 August 1796 (Jay Papers)
Permit me to request your Acceptance of a Copy of a medical Work which I have just published. It...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 4 January 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a humble tribute to the memory of our great republican and philosophical friend Mr....
48From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 22 January 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your kind favor of the 4th. inst. and the eulogium it covered on the subject...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 4 February 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Communication upon the Subject of the large Claws, and bones of the Lyon kind Animal , will...