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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 41 | 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... |
| 42 | 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... |
| 43 | 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... |
| 44 | 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... |
| 45 | 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... |
| 46 | 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... |
| 47 | 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... |
| 48 | 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... |
| 49 | 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.... |
| 50 | 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... |
| 51 | 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... |
| 52 | 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... |
| 53 | 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... |
| 54 | 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,... |
| 55 | 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,... |
| 56 | 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,... |
| 57 | 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... |
| 58 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1813 | 1813-04-18 | I thank you for the Slip of a newspaper. On that Subject my feelings are unutterable. The Day of... |
| 59 | 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... |
| 60 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 December 1809 | 1809-12-21 | I thank you for the pleasing account of your Family in your favour of the 5th. As I take a lively... |
| 61 | 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... |
| 62 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 July 1789 | 1789-07-28 | “The Characters, I So much admire among the ancients,” were not “formed wholly by Republican... |
| 63 | 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... |
| 64 | 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... |
| 65 | 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... |
| 66 | 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... |
| 67 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 December 1812 | 1812-12-27 | Letters! What Shall I Say of Letters? Pliny’s are too Studied and too elegant. Cicero’s are the... |
| 68 | 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.... |
| 69 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 August 1805 | 1805-08-23 | Your favour of the 14th gives an exact Analysis of Pennsylvania and its Parties: and from it, a... |
| 70 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 October 1809 | 1809-10-25 | I received yesterday your new Edition on Animal Life and Madam read it in the evening to me and... |
| 71 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 15 February 1813 | 1813-02-15 | All that I have written you, hitherto, upon the history of the Original of our Navy, was from... |
| 72 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1789 | 1789-07-05 | Without waiting for an Answer to my last, I will take a little more notice of a Sentiment in one... |
| 73 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 August 1811 | 1811-08-14 | Upon honor, now, Rush! You cannot be serious in calling me, mad, to my Face! I learned a proper... |
| 74 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808 | 1808-04-18 | I have your favour of the 5th. My dear Mrs Adams bids me present her friendly regards to you and... |
| 75 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 20 June 1808 | 1808-06-20 | I give you this Title for the present only. I Shall Scarcely allow you to be a political, moral,... |
| 76 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 29 December 1812 | 1812-12-29 | I have not done with your Letter of the 19th: I care not half, so much about Red Heifer, as I do... |
| 77 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 December 1788 | 1788-12-02 | A multiplicity of avocations have prevented me, from answering your friendly Letter of the 2 d of... |
| 78 | 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... |
| 79 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 24 June 1812 | 1812-06-24 | The Decadency of Government is obvious, through the World and it is to be feared the cause of it... |
| 80 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 February 1813 | 1813-02-21 | Yours of the 8th is yet unanswered.—I beg your Pardon for hinting, tho in jest at my... |
| 81 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 May 1810 | 1810-05-14 | What can I say to my Friend in return for his Letter of 26th of April? My Grief for the... |
| 82 | 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... |
| 83 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 31 August 1809 | 1809-08-31 | If I were not as disinterested as a Patriot, I should answer every Line from you as soon as recd.... |
| 84 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 January 1813 | 1813-01-04 | Be pleased to accept my humble Duty for the notice you have condescended to take of me. I will do... |
| 85 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 13 October 1810 | 1810-10-13 | Mrs Adams Says She is willing you Should discredit Greek and Latin, because it will destroy the... |
| 86 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 9 June 1789 | 1789-06-09 | No! You and I will not cease to discuss political questions: but We will agree to disagree ,... |
| 87 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 September 1807 | 1807-09-01 | It is rare, that a Letter of yours remains so long upon my Table unacknowledged as has that of... |
| 88 | 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... |
| 89 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 April 1807 | 1807-04-12 | Your favour of the 3d is received; I am willing to allow you Philosophers your opinion of the... |
| 90 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 30 September 1805 | 1805-09-30 | Although it is a gratification to my feelings to write to you and a much greater pleasure to... |