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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 February 1790 | 1790-02-02 | I cannot give up my dear Latin and Greek although Fortune has never permitted me to enjoy so much... |
| 2 | 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... |
| 3 | 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... |
| 4 | 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... |
| 5 | 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... |
| 6 | 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... |
| 7 | 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... |
| 8 | 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.... |
| 9 | 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... |
| 10 | 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... |
| 11 | 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... |
| 12 | 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... |
| 13 | 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,... |
| 14 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 September 1783 | 1783-09-14 | Give me Leave to introduce to Your Acquaintance and Friendship, M r Thaxter, who goes home with... |
| 15 | 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... |
| 16 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 November 1782 | 1782-11-07 | Accept of my thanks for your favor of 28 th. Sept r. — The Analogy of Religion & of Manners are... |
| 17 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 3 February 1813 | 1813-02-03 | I congratulate you, & your state and our Nation on the Acquisition of such a secretary of the... |
| 18 | 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... |
| 19 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 29 March 1813 | 1813-03-29 | Inclosed is a Packet two Papers marked A. B. four Number ed 1. 2. 3. 4. A Letter from The Vice... |
| 20 | 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.... |
| 21 | 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... |
| 22 | 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... |
| 23 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 February 1813 | 1813-02-23 | I loose no time in answering your Letter of the 15th, that my Confidence in your Love to your... |
| 24 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 6 February 1805 | 1805-02-06 | It seemeth unto me that you and I ought not to die without saying good-bye or bidding each other... |
| 25 | 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... |
| 26 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 6 December 1778 | 1778-12-06 | I had the Pleasure of a Letter from you, a few days before I Sailed from Boston, which I have... |
| 27 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 15 July 1789 | 1789-07-15 | I have read D r Rush, de moribus Germanorum, with pleasure. As I am a great lover of paradoxes,... |
| 28 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 April 1782 | 1782-04-22 | Mr Peter Paulus, is seized with an enthusiasm to go to Philadelphia, with his Journeymen. I... |
| 29 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 6 September 1812 | 1812-09-06 | Will your tranquilizing Chair, exorcise Demoniacks? Will it cure the Hydrophobia? I am Sure Our... |
| 30 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 May 1807 | 1807-05-23 | I received at an Exhibition of Musick in our polite Village of Mount Woollaston, on thursday,... |
| 31 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 July 1780 | 1780-07-01 | I Yesterday, received your Favour of the 28 of April, the first Since my Arrival by Dr. John... |
| 32 | 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... |
| 33 | 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... |
| 34 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 20 September 1780 | 1780-09-20 | Yours of 13 July I have received. Your Account of the Resurrection of the Spirit of 65 and 6, is... |
| 35 | 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... |
| 36 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 October 1812 | 1812-10-22 | If you had investigated the Question, concerning Possessions or that about matter and Spirit, in... |
| 37 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 June 1812 | 1812-06-12 | Ask the great Lady, you quoted in your last, whether when I pray for the health of Philadelphia,... |
| 38 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 17 May 1789 | 1789-05-17 | Your favour of the 19 of March deserves a particular consideration and answer, which I have not,... |
| 39 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 February 1807 | 1807-02-02 | You make me very happy when you Say, that you agree with me upon the Subject of the... |
| 40 | 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... |
| 41 | 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... |
| 42 | 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... |
| 43 | 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... |
| 44 | 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... |
| 45 | 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... |
| 46 | 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... |
| 47 | 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... |
| 48 | 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... |
| 49 | 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... |
| 50 | 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... |