51To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 June 1810 (Adams Papers)
Wealth, respect and friendship! from your grateful and affectionate friend. War with the “great...
52To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
It is possible Dr Franklins estate, when sold, in Order to be divided, may not produce the Sum...
53To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 10 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
I put the papers you sent me into the hands of Mr Carey. Some of them will be published in an...
54To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 13 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
Retired as I live from the political World, and devoted as I am Obliged to be to the duties of my...
55To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 20 May 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 May 1809, Philadelphia. His son, Dr. James Rush, visits Washington to make a call upon the...
56To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 11 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
Alas! What a difference between your last, and former letters!—Instead of being charmed with the...
57To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 May 1809 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with the Specimen you have given of the Use of your Wings upon a certain...
58Benjamin Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I was much gratified in reading the confidential Communication made to me in your letter . After...
59Benjamin Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 3 [March] 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter which I received a few days ago from M r Adams , he informs with a kind of exultation...
60To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I am two letters in your debt. To the last I shall reply first. I am not satisfied with any one...
61To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
Hate on, & call upon all the pedagouges in Massachussets to assist you with their hatred of me,...
62To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 January 1813 (Adams Papers)
Having just now gotten my task, that is, revised my lecture, and added to it the results of my...
63To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 30 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
We both owe too much to our Wives to differ with them, and perhaps there never was a time when...
64To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
It is now a time of uncommon health in our city, insomuch that I spend six or seven hours of...
65To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
In Contemplating the facility with which our Once chaste & vi mistress “American liberty” admits...
66To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
My son Ben sent me a quarter Cask of Old muscat Wine as a present from the Isle of Samos. The...
67To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 17 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Gibbon tells us in his life, that he studied Anatomy & Chemistry on purpose to furnish himself...
68To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 February 1812 (Adams Papers)
I did not require the anecdote you have communicated to me in your letter of last month to know...
69To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
Act I. Scene I. Mr: Adams’s Study Mr A: Who is there? Dr: R—a friend— A—Walk in.—Ah! Rush is that...
70To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
You remind me by your wish for a copy of all the lyes that were published against you by your...
71To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 9 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
You have touched me in a sore place in your letter of the 4th instant. My Son Richard has...
72Benjamin Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 17 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Decem r 5 th came to hand yesterday. I was charmed with the Subject of it. In order to...
73To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 July 1809 (Adams Papers)
I enclose you three numbers of Duane’s papers that you may see in what manner the late news from...
74To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
We read of Hurricane Months in the West Indies. Men of business are exposed to them no less than...
75To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 1 April 1809 (Adams Papers)
It would be well, if legislators were taught before they begin to legislate, that there are...
76To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 1 February 1810 (Adams Papers)
With this letter you will receive a bundle of Auroras, and another of the same size by the post...
77To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 30 January 1811 (Madison Papers)
With sincere Sympathy I sit down to inform you that this evening your amiable nephew expired. His...
78To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 11 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
I will say of the Wine which you have done me the favor to accept, What you said to me when I...
79To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 30 September 1809 (Adams Papers)
“Great men (says Lord Bacon) have neither Ancestors nor posterity.” This, you and I know is not...
80To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 29 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to send you herewith the 4th report of the directors of the African institution...
81To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
Philadelphia Decemr: 5th: 1809 I picked up some time ago a magazine in which I met with a revival...
82To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 18 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
During the revolutionary War I kept notes and preserved pamphlets with a view to write memoirs of...
83To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 16 March 1813 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed letter to Dr Waterhouse contains the Welcome intelligence that his son has passed...
84To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
Stephen Gerard came to Philada from France About thirty years ago in the capacity of a Sailor....
85To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
“salus, honor et bonus Appetitus.” to use the Words of Molière— from Dear sir ever / Yrs MHi :...
86Benjamin Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 11 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Few eforts of the Acts of my life have given me more pleasure than the one you are pleased to...
87To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
During the time Cobbett was abusing me in his newspaper to the great joy of a number of our tory...
88To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 6 September 1811. Acknowledged in JM to Rush, 20 Sept. 1811 . Forwards a copy...
89To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
In Spite of a Speech made by my wife a few days Ago, “that you and I corresponded like two young...
90To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 9 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have great pleasure in informing you that the operation I mentioned in my letter of Friday was...
91To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 10 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for you son’s pamphlet. Much as I loath political discussions of all kinds, I was...
92To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
The 4th of July has been celebrated in Philada: in the manner I expected. The military men, and...
93To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
I once met Mr Sawbridge at the house of his Sister Mrs McCaulay in London. In speaking of some of...
94To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
The paternal farm which I visited on the 11th: of last month, lies two miles further from...
95To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
I send you herewith some more of Col Duane’s papers. You will perceive in One of them proposals...