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1 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 March 1809 | 1809-03-04 | If I could dream as much Wit as you, I think I should wish to go to Sleep for the rest of my... |
2 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 March 1809 | 1809-03-14 | Your Anecdotes are always extreamly Aprospros and none of them more So than those in your Letter... |
3 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 March 1809 | 1809-03-23 | I agree with Sidney as quoted in your favour of the 13th. That civil War is preferable to Slavery... |
4 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 April 1809 | 1809-04-12 | Thank you for your favor of the 1st. I might have quoted Job as well as St Paul, as a Precedent:... |
5 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 April 1809 | 1809-04-12 | I rejoice to find that Pensilvania has returned to reason and Duty in the affair of the Miss... |
6 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 June 1809 | 1809-06-07 | Your Letters are not apt to lie a month unacknowledged. That of May 5th. is before me since which... |
7 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 June 1809 | 1809-06-22 | A thousand thanks to Richard for his Auroras and ten thousand to you for your Letter of the 14th.... |
8 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 August 1809 | 1809-08-07 | I thank you for your favour of July 26 and its Enclosures. You have frequently, in a most... |
9 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 31 August 1809 | 1809-08-31 | If I were not as disinterested as a Patriot, I should answer every Line from you as soon as recd.... |
10 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 September 1809 | 1809-09-01 | Thanks for yours of Aug. 25 and the Papers enclosed. They are very high and very warm. You... |
11 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 September 1809 | 1809-09-27 | I recd. in course yours of the 7th. Fox was a remarkable Character. I admire the Morsell of... |
12 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 8 October 1809 | 1809-10-08 | Bacon the great Bacon was fond of Paradoxes. What could The Old Hunks mean by Great Men having... |
13 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 October 1809 | 1809-10-25 | I received yesterday your new Edition on Animal Life and Madam read it in the evening to me and... |
14 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 December 1809 | 1809-12-21 | I thank you for the pleasing account of your Family in your favour of the 5th. As I take a lively... |
15 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 January 1810 | 1810-01-21 | Thanks for “the light and Truth” as I used to call the Aurora, which you sent me. You may descend... |
16 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 February 1810 | 1810-02-11 | Thanks for yours of the first and the two Packetts. Who are they who furnish the Aurora with Such... |
17 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 May 1810 | 1810-05-14 | What can I say to my Friend in return for his Letter of 26th of April? My Grief for the... |
18 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 June 1810 | 1810-06-28 | I acknowledge my fault in neglecting to answer two or three of your last favours. I now thank you... |
19 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 6 August 1810 | 1810-08-06 | Your Exhortation to Punctuallity and your Tic doulourouse had scarcely been read to my Family... |
20 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 September 1810 | 1810-09-01 | I have been entertained and diverted with the humour and the Wit of my Old Friend O Brian as you... |
21 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 16 September 1810 | 1810-09-16 | I am much obliged by your favour of the 8th. Oh how I wish, I had time to write, and you Patience... |
22 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 13 October 1810 | 1810-10-13 | Mrs Adams Says She is willing you Should discredit Greek and Latin, because it will destroy the... |
23 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 December 1810 | 1810-12-27 | It was but yesterday that I was able to obtain the inclosed Review of Works of Mr Ames, which you... |
24 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 December 1810 | 1810-12-27 | I Sent my Wife to the Post Office this morning with a Letter to you inclosing a Review of Fisher... |
25 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 17 January 1811 | 1811-01-17 | Your favour of the 10th, is just come from the Post Office. I thank you for reading the Pamphlet,... |
26 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 January 1811 | 1811-01-18 | As I am never weary of Writing to you, because I write always without thinking, I am not sorry to... |
27 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 13 February 1811 | 1811-02-13 | In your Favour of the 4th., according to my Judgment you have given up the whole Controversy. You... |
28 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 April 1811 | 1811-04-02 | I thank you for the Trouble you have kindly taken in procuring the Samples of Coins for my Son J.... |
29 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 June 1811 | 1811-06-21 | As Charité commens par soi même, or as We more elegantly express it, as Charity begins at home, I... |
30 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 31 July 1811 | 1811-07-31 | I have several sweet letters from you the last of which is the 20th of this month. The table of... |
31 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 August 1811 | 1811-08-14 | Upon honor, now, Rush! You cannot be serious in calling me, mad, to my Face! I learned a proper... |
32 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 August 1811 | 1811-08-25 | If I could be considered as a Friend to the Family I should Advise the Grand Children of Dr... |
33 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 August 1811 | 1811-08-28 | Your Letter of the 20th., My dear Friend, has filled my Eyes with Tears,—and, indurated Stoick as... |
34 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 September 1811 | 1811-09-12 | Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependit, has some Truth in it and you have addressed several... |
35 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 13 October 1811 | 1811-10-13 | Sobrius esto! Recollect your own Non Nobis! Your Letter of the 20th. of September I communicated... |
36 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 November 1811 | 1811-11-02 | Be pleased to accept my cordial congratulations on the felicity of your Family in the arrival of... |
37 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 November 1811 | 1811-11-21 | On this our Thanksgiving day, among innumerable other Blessings, I have to thank express my... |
38 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 December 1811 | 1811-12-04 | Shall I congratulate or condole with you on the appointment of your Son to be Comptroller of The... |
39 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 December 1811 | 1811-12-19 | When I was a Boy, not ten years old, I heard Smith Richard Thayer, a great Authority, say “When... |
40 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 December 1811 | 1811-12-25 | I never was so much at a loss how to answer a Letter, as yours of the 16th. Shall I assume a... |
41 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 8 January 1812 | 1812-01-08 | I have recd. your favour of the 26th. of Decr. You mention Cobbet. have you read Mr Randolphs... |
42 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 January 1812 | 1812-01-27 | I agree with you that The Ocean ought to be and must be the Theatre of the War. Our Government... |
43 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 10 February 1812 | 1812-02-10 | your Dream is out, and the Passage you read in the History that Richard was reading is come to... |
44 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 26 February 1812 | 1812-02-26 | I shall expect your long letter; but I ought not to wish it with impatience: for you have such... |
45 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 March 1812 | 1812-03-19 | The greatest part of the History in your last Letter was well known to me, and I could write you... |
46 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 April 1812 | 1812-04-22 | Omnicient Jackson Said to me, at his own Table and repeated it at mine in London, that Chatham... |
47 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 13 May 1812 | 1812-05-13 | Say what you will, that Man is in a poor case who is reduced to the necessity of looking to... |
48 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 May 1812 | 1812-05-14 | When I sat down to write you, yesterday I really intended to write a sober Letter: but fell... |
49 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 26 May 1812 | 1812-05-26 | I am Such a miser that I cannot Suffer a Letter of yours to remain a day unanswered, because my... |
50 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 May 1812 | 1812-05-28 | I will not loose an hour of my Interest of 8 per Cent a Month. I have this moment received yours... |