1To 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...
2To 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...
3To 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...
4To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 December 1808 (Adams Papers)
Has your right hand forgotten its Cunning from pain or Sickness? or have you ceased to...
5To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 October 1808 (Adams Papers)
The election in Pennsylvania has issued in a manner totally unexpected by the federalists, and...
6To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 September 1808 (Adams Papers)
The politicks of our City are under the direction of three Classes of people, old tories,...
7To 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....
8To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 August 1808 (Adams Papers)
In Contemplating the events that have lately taken place in Spain, and their probable...
9To 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...
10To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 21 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to your request, I have written to General Armstrong in favor of my friend Dr. Clark. I...
11To 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...
12To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 6 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
The letter you did me the favor to enclose me a few days ago is from a Dr: Thomas Clark- a...
13To 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...
14To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 18 February 1808 (Adams Papers)
I have escaped for ten minutes from the pressure of business, lectures–pupils, and the Charge of...
15To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 December 1807 (Adams Papers)
An inflammation in my eyes which for several days has confined me to my house, and rendered...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 28 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just now received a letter from Dr Waterhouse in which he has requested me to address you...
17To 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...
18To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 9 July 1807 (Adams Papers)
I once met Alexander Cruden the Author of the Concordance of the Scriptures at Charles Dilly’s....
19To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 9 June 1807 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to trouble you with the delivery of the enclosed letter to Dr Tufts. It contains an...
20To 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...
21To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 April 1807 (Adams Papers)
I enclose you the letter I mentioned in my last, from the person whom I supposed to be your son...
22To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 3 April 1807 (Adams Papers)
The difficult and complicated labors of my professorship consisting of teaching, examining,...
23To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 23 January 1807 (Adams Papers)
I have been waiting like Horace’s Clown till the Stream of my business should so far lessen that...
24To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 25 November 1806 (Adams Papers)
I have seldom been more highly gratified than by the receipt of your letter of Novr 11th. The...
25To 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....
26To 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...
27To 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...
28To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 June 1806 (Adams Papers)
Herewith you will receive a small publication that contains several new Opinions in Physiology,...
29To 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...
30To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 7 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Benjamin Rush. 7 April 1806, Philadelphia. “The bearer Captain John McDougall goes to...
31To 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...
32To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 30 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
Many years have passed away since I have read a political pamphflet. The Subject, and name of the...
33To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 January 1806 (Adams Papers)
I committed to Mr Vanhan a few days ago, a copy of the new edition of my medical Inquiries and...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 6 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you, with this letter, two pamphflets upon the yellow fever.—One of...
35To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 3 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Benjamin Rush. 3 December 1805, Philadelphia. “To a person acquainted with the great...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 3 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer General Miranda visits Washington chiefly with a design to pay his respects to the...
37To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 November 1805 (Adams Papers)
I am pleased in reflecting that I destroyed all the documents and Anecdotes I had collected for...
38To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 September 1805 (Adams Papers)
The hurry always connected with the prevalence of a yellow fever in our City; has prevented my...
39To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 August 1805 (Adams Papers)
Your letters are full of aphorisms. Every paragraph in them suggests new ideas, or revives old...
40To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 29 June 1805 (Adams Papers)
Having been called upon lately to bear a part in the examination & exercises of twenty four...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 15 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just now recd your friendly letter, and take the earliest opportunity to express my entire...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 29 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Boudinot having lately built a house at Burlington in the state of New Jersey, and purposing...
43To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 23 March 1805 (Adams Papers)
Philadelphia March 23rd: 1805 I was much gratified by your early answer to my letter, and by your...
44To 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...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 29 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter from Monticello of the 8th of August, was perfectly satisfactory to me. I applied for...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 28 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer Dr Anth: Fothergill wishes to do himself the honor of paying his respects to you. He...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 12 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer Dr: Chapman —formerly one of my private pupils, wishes for the honor of your...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 5 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you herewith Sir John Sinclair’s pamphlet upon Old Age with many thanks. I have read it...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 11 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have endeavoured to fulfil your Wishes by furnishing Mr Lewis with some inquiries relative to...
50Rush’s Directions to Meriwether Lewis for Preserving Health, 11 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Dr. Rush to Capt. Lewis . for preserving his health. 1. when you feel the least indisposition, do...