1To 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...
2To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 3 April 1807 (Adams Papers)
The difficult and complicated labors of my professorship consisting of teaching, examining,...
3To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 5 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
My second son Richard Rush has long felt a strong desire to visit Europe in the capacity of a...
4To 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...
5To 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...
6To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 23 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to revive a friendship, Once very dear to me, by addressing you upon a Subject highly...
7To 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...
8To 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...
9To 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...
10To 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...
11To 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...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 27 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept much honoured & dear sir of a Copy of the enclosed publication. How joyful the Sound of...
13To 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...
14To 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...
15To 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...
16To 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...
17To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 June 1806 (Adams Papers)
Herewith you will receive a small publication that contains several new Opinions in Physiology,...
18To 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...
19To 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...
20To 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...
21To 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....
22To 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...
23To 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...
24To 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...
25To 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...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 5 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I was made very happy by learning from your letter of the 23rd of April that your disease is less...
27To 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...
28To 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...
29To 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...
30To 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...