51To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 December 1812 (Adams Papers)
You have so far outdreamed me in your last letter, that I shall be afraid hereafter to let my...
52To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 December 1812 (Adams Papers)
Better and better! Dream on my venerable friend!—In one of the King of Prussias political letters...
53To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 17 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
Who were the ancestors and posterity of Homer, Demosthenes, Plato and Aristotle? who were the...
54To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 February 1813 (Adams Papers)
It was wholly unnecessary to bring forward the respectable testimony of Mr Langdon in order to...
55To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 March 1789 (Adams Papers)
From the influence as president of the senate, and a Citizen of massachussets, that you will have...
56To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 18 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
All my family rejoice with yours in the happy issue of the operation performed upon Mrs Smiths...
57To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
Mr Denny is the principal writer in the portfolio. He is precluded from introducing politicks...
58To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 February 1809 (Adams Papers)
Soon after the receipt of your last letter in which you Advise me to shake off my retired habits...
59To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 October 1779 (Adams Papers)
Accept of my thanks for your early and puntual Attention to my letter. I have ever thought myself...
60To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
My printer and my patients have kept me So busy for some Weeks past that I have fallen in Arrears...
61To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
In One of my letters written some time ago, I informed you that my eldest son had killed a...
62To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 April 1808 (Adams Papers)
A bad cold, added to the pressure of business, has delayed my answer much longer than I intended...
63To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 June 1808 (Adams Papers)
Public and private news & anecdotes are now so limited by the present state of our Country, that...
64To 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...
65To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
My son Richard who has been a customer for the Aurora ever since he lived at the Jersey College,...
66To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 March 1806 (Adams Papers)
I avail myself of the first leisure hour I have had since the Conclusion of my lectures to...
67To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 28 September 1782 (Adams Papers)
Accept of my congratulations upon the Success of your negociations at the Hague. Your countrymen...
68To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, April 1812 (Adams Papers)
In giving the history of the Controversies in which I was engaged in the military hospitals, and...
69To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
You may tell your friend Mr Cranch that I included my Correspondent among the men who were so...
70To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 March 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the 19th. of February was alike acceptable with all your former letters. The papers...
71To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 10 June 1806 (Adams Papers)
My long delay in answering your last letter has arisen from two causes—an unusual share of...
72To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 February 1813 (Adams Papers)
I am now Attending a daughter of Mr Mathew Careys. In One of my Visits to her, I mentioned your...
73To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 June 1810 (Adams Papers)
Wealth, respect and friendship! from your grateful and affectionate friend. War with the “great...
74To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
It is possible Dr Franklins estate, when sold, in Order to be divided, may not produce the Sum...
75To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 July 1808 (Adams Papers)
The Campaign of Summer diseases being opened,—and my duties calling me at all hours of the day...
76To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 10 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
I put the papers you sent me into the hands of Mr Carey. Some of them will be published in an...
77To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 June 1806 (Adams Papers)
Herewith you will receive a small publication that contains several new Opinions in Physiology,...
78To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 11 July 1806 (Adams Papers)
At the request of my Wife I called upon a friend of mine a few days ago to borrow “the secret...
79To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 October 1779 (Adams Papers)
I cannot help troubling you with a second Answer to your letters on purpose to congratulate you...
80To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 January 1781 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of Sepr. 20 from Amsterdam came safe to hand. The contents of it were of so important...
81To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 11 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
Alas! What a difference between your last, and former letters!—Instead of being charmed with the...
82To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 May 1809 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with the Specimen you have given of the Use of your Wings upon a certain...
83To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I am two letters in your debt. To the last I shall reply first. I am not satisfied with any one...
84To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 February 1805 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 6th: instant revived a great many pleasant ideas in my mind. I have not...
85To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
Hate on, & call upon all the pedagouges in Massachussets to assist you with their hatred of me,...
86To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 January 1813 (Adams Papers)
Having just now gotten my task, that is, revised my lecture, and added to it the results of my...
87To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 30 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
We both owe too much to our Wives to differ with them, and perhaps there never was a time when...
88To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
It is now a time of uncommon health in our city, insomuch that I spend six or seven hours of...
89To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 31 October 1807 (Adams Papers)
I am ashamed of my long silence after the receipt of the two last letters from my kind friend and...
90To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 April 1789 (Adams Papers)
Accept of my sincere Congratulations upon your arrival in new york, and upon your advancement to...
91To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
In Contemplating the facility with which our Once chaste & vi mistress “American liberty” admits...
92To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
My son Ben sent me a quarter Cask of Old muscat Wine as a present from the Isle of Samos. The...
93To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 January 1789 (Adams Papers)
Your affectionate and instructing letter of Decem r 2 nd: did not reach me ’till yesterday.— I...
94To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 17 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Gibbon tells us in his life, that he studied Anatomy & Chemistry on purpose to furnish himself...
95To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 January 1809 (Adams Papers)
In a situation such as you have seen a Sea Captain in a Gale of Wind, I sit down to acknowledge...
96To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 May 1807 (Adams Papers)
In one of your former letters you say as an excuse for your not assuming the reserve of certain...
97To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 16 September 1808 (Adams Papers)
I shall answer your letter of Augst: 31st: by giving you an Account of one of my late dreams....
98To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 February 1812 (Adams Papers)
I did not require the anecdote you have communicated to me in your letter of last month to know...
99To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 August 1806 (Adams Papers)
You ascribe wonders to the influence of Silence and Secrecy in public men. I agree with you in...
100To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 October 1806 (Adams Papers)
Ever since the receipt of your last letter I have passed my days like an arrow shot from a bow....