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I set down with great pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from Mr. Adams dated...
I have just returned from spending an agreeable hour with your best Friend. In the Course of our...
In addressing a small publication to the President, I am naturally led to congratulate You upon...
By the post on the 9 th instant I intruded a hasty line upon you, upon a reference Tench Coxe had...
In Observing the different operation of Whig principles upon different people, I have been led to...
It would have given me great pleasure to have Spent an hour with you in this place After my...
I have little to add to the long letter I wrote to you a few days ago, but that the event of the...
I fear you will class me with the weeping philosophers of antiquity, but I cannot help it. He who...
The disorders of our Army do not proceed from any natural faults in our men. On the contrary I...
Yorktown, 22 January 1778. RC ( Adams Papers ); printed : Benjamin Rush, Letters Letters of...
Lancaster, 8 February 1778. RC ( Adams Papers ); printed : Benjamin Rush, Letters Letters of...
Your letter written a few days before your embarkation from for France, lays me under an...
The same Opinion of your Abilities and Zeal for our country which made me rejoice in your...
Accept of my thanks for your early and puntual Attention to my letter. I have ever thought myself...
I cannot help troubling you with a second Answer to your letters on purpose to congratulate you...
This letter will be handed to you by Dr. John Foulke (a Graduate in our University) a young...
The reduction—I will not say loss of Charlestown has produced a new Era in the politicks of...
Behold the fruits of the french Alliance! Our young men no longer look upon Great Britain as...
The discovery of Arnold’s treachery, and the new Bennington Affair in the South, have given fresh...
Your favor of Sepr. 20 from Amsterdam came safe to hand. The contents of it were of so important...
The bearer Mr. George Harrison intends to spend a few years in a compting house in Amsterdam. He...
Accept of my congratulations upon the Success of your negociations at the Hague. Your countrymen...
D r Rush returns his thanks to M r: Cutting for the elegant & agreeable manner in which he...
Permit an old friend to congratulate you upon your safe arrival in your native country. I...
Your affectionate and instructing letter of Decem r 2 nd: did not reach me ’till yesterday.— I...
Few events have happened since the 17th of septem r: 1788, which have afforded me more pleasure...
From the influence as president of the senate, and a Citizen of massachussets, that you will have...
Accept of my sincere Congratulations upon your arrival in new york, and upon your advancement to...
I find you, & I must agree , NOT to disagree , or we must cease to discuss political questions. I...
I have been so long accustomed to regard all your opinions upon goverment with reverence, that I...
From an unfortunate concurrence of circumstances, I find myself under the influence of the same...
Ever since the last week in Octo r I have been engaged in composing & delivering a new Course of...
Your remarks upon the Conduct of the tories, and the “young fry” who are now crouding into the...
Your last letter is a treasure.— Every Sentence in it is full of instruction. I have often...
Your letter of the 6th: instant revived a great many pleasant ideas in my mind. I have not...
Philadelphia March 23rd: 1805 I was much gratified by your early answer to my letter, and by your...
Having been called upon lately to bear a part in the examination & exercises of twenty four...
Your letters are full of aphorisms. Every paragraph in them suggests new ideas, or revives old...
The hurry always connected with the prevalence of a yellow fever in our City; has prevented my...
I am pleased in reflecting that I destroyed all the documents and Anecdotes I had collected for...
I committed to Mr Vanhan a few days ago, a copy of the new edition of my medical Inquiries and...
I avail myself of the first leisure hour I have had since the Conclusion of my lectures to...
My long delay in answering your last letter has arisen from two causes—an unusual share of...
Herewith you will receive a small publication that contains several new Opinions in Physiology,...
At the request of my Wife I called upon a friend of mine a few days ago to borrow “the secret...
You ascribe wonders to the influence of Silence and Secrecy in public men. I agree with you in...
Ever since the receipt of your last letter I have passed my days like an arrow shot from a bow....
I have seldom been more highly gratified than by the receipt of your letter of Novr 11th. The...
I have been waiting like Horace’s Clown till the Stream of my business should so far lessen that...
The difficult and complicated labors of my professorship consisting of teaching, examining,...