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1 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 March 1809 | 1809-03-02 | Your favor of the 19th. of February was alike acceptable with all your former letters. The papers... |
2 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 February 1809 | 1809-02-20 | Soon after the receipt of your last letter in which you Advise me to shake off my retired habits... |
3 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 January 1809 | 1809-01-13 | In a situation such as you have seen a Sea Captain in a Gale of Wind, I sit down to acknowledge... |
4 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 December 1808 | 1808-12-14 | Has your right hand forgotten its Cunning from pain or Sickness? or have you ceased to... |
5 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 October 1808 | 1808-10-21 | The election in Pennsylvania has issued in a manner totally unexpected by the federalists, and... |
6 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 September 1808 | 1808-09-22 | The politicks of our City are under the direction of three Classes of people, old tories,... |
7 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 16 September 1808 | 1808-09-16 | I shall answer your letter of Augst: 31st: by giving you an Account of one of my late dreams.... |
8 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 August 1808 | 1808-08-24 | In Contemplating the events that have lately taken place in Spain, and their probable... |
9 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 July 1808 | 1808-07-13 | The Campaign of Summer diseases being opened,—and my duties calling me at all hours of the day... |
10 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 June 1808 | 1808-06-13 | Public and private news & anecdotes are now so limited by the present state of our Country, that... |
11 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 April 1808 | 1808-04-05 | A bad cold, added to the pressure of business, has delayed my answer much longer than I intended... |
12 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 18 February 1808 | 1808-02-18 | I have escaped for ten minutes from the pressure of business, lectures–pupils, and the Charge of... |
13 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 December 1807 | 1807-12-15 | An inflammation in my eyes which for several days has confined me to my house, and rendered... |
14 | 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... |
15 | 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.... |
16 | 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... |
17 | 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... |
18 | 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... |
19 | 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,... |
20 | 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... |
21 | 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... |
22 | 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.... |
23 | 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... |
24 | 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... |
25 | 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,... |
26 | 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... |
27 | 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... |
28 | 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... |
29 | 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... |
30 | 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... |
31 | 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... |
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, 23 March 1805 | 1805-03-23 | Philadelphia March 23rd: 1805 I was much gratified by your early answer to my letter, and by your... |
34 | 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... |