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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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11 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 26 March 1806 | 1806-03-26 | Your favour of the fifteenth is received. In a cornfield, which I had manured with seaweed and... |
12 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, [17] February 1790 | 1790-02-17 | I had heard, before I rec d your Letter of the 12 th , of your new Engagements in the Colledge... |
13 | 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... |
14 | 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... |
15 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 September 1779 | 1779-09-19 | I had the Pleasure of yours of August 19, by the last Post, and thank you for your kind... |
16 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1790 | 1790-04-18 | Your letter of April 13, soars above the visible diurnal Sphære.— I own to you that avarice... |
17 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 June 1806 | 1806-06-22 | Your Letter of the tenth, like all others from your pen, notwithstanding all your apologies, was... |
18 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 November 1812 | 1812-11-07 | I am in great perplexity, Every day something Occurs to puzzle my feeble intellect. To whom can I... |
19 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 December 1808 | 1808-12-22 | I know not whether I shall make you smile or weep, excite your ridicule or pity or contempt when... |
20 | 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... |
21 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 July 1808 | 1808-07-25 | Handsome Bradford, of thy City, allarmed me, the other day at our Athenaeum in Boston, by telling... |
22 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 November 1812 | 1812-11-14 | Your Volume will not produce Answers or Examinations or reflections: but probably Reproaches,... |
23 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 July 1812 | 1812-07-07 | If I were as rich as Mr Stephen Gerard or Mr William Gray, I would publish and proclaim offers... |
24 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, September 1807 | ≈1807-09-01 | I want to write an Essay.—Whom Shall I choose for a Model?—Plutarch, old Montaigne, Lord Bacon,... |
25 | 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... |
26 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 3 July 1812 | 1812-07-03 | Mrs Rush may be assured, that I have no doubt of her Friendship for me. The Familiarities and... |
27 | 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... |
28 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 May 1807 | 1807-05-01 | I thank you, my dear Sir for the promptitude of your Answer to my last Letter, and for inclosing... |
29 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 December 1805 | 1805-12-04 | I am half inclined to be very angry with you for destroying the Anecdotes and documents you had... |
30 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 15 January 1813 | 1813-01-15 | You have forgotten, Old Dr Shippen, Dr Franklin, and many others. I have known many Instances.... |
31 | 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... |
32 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 November 1807 | 1807-11-11 | I have, long before the receipt of your favour of the 31 of October, supposed that either you... |
33 | 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... |
34 | 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... |
35 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 May 1807 | 1807-05-21 | I return you, the Letter of Edward Smith. Time may or may not unriddle this whimsical Mystery. It... |
36 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 June 1807 | 1807-06-23 | I have received your favour of the ninth of this Month, and conveyed to Dr Tufts your Letter to... |
37 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 29 November 1812 | 1812-11-29 | I have recd. your valuable Volume, on the diseases of the mind; which will run Mankind still... |
38 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 April 1805 | 1805-04-11 | I am highly gratified, to possess So authentic an Account of the Several rising branches of your... |
39 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 September 1806 | 1806-09-19 | Thanks for your favour of Aug. 22d. My Experience is perfectly conformable to yours, respecting... |
40 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 8 February 1789 | 1789-02-08 | Your obliging favor of the 22 d Ult I rec d. last night.— I remember so much of the transactions,... |
41 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 June 1789 | 1789-06-19 | Your Single Principle, in your Letter of the 15 th must fail you.— You say “that Republican... |
42 | 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... |
43 | 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... |
44 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 10 October 1808 | 1808-10-10 | The three Classes of People in Boston, who direct our public Affairs are the Same as those you... |
45 | 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... |
46 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 December 1807 | 1807-12-28 | I thank you for your printed lecture on the humanity Economy and other virtues, which require of... |
47 | 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... |
48 | 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... |
49 | 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... |
50 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 July 1805 | 1805-07-07 | Your Letter, my dear Friend, of the 29th. of June, Suggets enough of Serious reflections, to... |
51 | 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... |
52 | 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.... |
53 | 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... |
54 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 February 1788 | 1788-02-28 | The Letter that accompanies this, is from a Character so respectable, that I beg leave to... |
55 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 10 September 1779 | 1779-09-10 | I am indebted to you, for more Letters than I can repay at present. But declaring myself a... |
56 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 March 1813 | 1813-03-23 | Your Letter to Waterhouse inclosed in yours of the 16th. Shall be Sent tomorrow. With them came... |
57 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 8 December 1812 | 1812-12-08 | On horseback, on my Way to Weymouth on a Visit to my Friend Dr Tufts I met a Man leading a Horse,... |
58 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 20 February 1809 | 1809-02-20 | When you informed me that Mr Cooper in his Life of Dr Priestly had ascribed to that Philosopher,... |
59 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 September 1812 | 1812-09-18 | In the good old English Phrase, I give you ten thousand Thanks for the Muscat Wine of Samos,... |
60 | 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... |