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1 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 January 1812 | 1812-01-15 | “Arma, Cestusque”, parmamque “repono,” upon the offensive subject of one of my late letters to... |
2 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 June 1789 | 1789-06-04 | I find you, & I must agree , NOT to disagree , or we must cease to discuss political questions. I... |
3 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 August 1805 | 1805-08-14 | Your letters are full of aphorisms. Every paragraph in them suggests new ideas, or revives old... |
4 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 February 1790 | 1790-02-12 | Ever since the last week in Octo r I have been engaged in composing & delivering a new Course of... |
5 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 25 August 1809 | 1809-08-25 | I enclose you four numbers of Duane’s paper. They contain a good deal of matter relative to the... |
6 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 December 1808 | 1808-12-14 | Has your right hand forgotten its Cunning from pain or Sickness? or have you ceased to... |
7 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 January 1778 | 1778-01-22 | Yorktown, 22 January 1778. RC ( Adams Papers ); printed : Benjamin Rush, Letters Letters of... |
8 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 June 1810 | 1810-06-12 | Every moment of Amusement that I am able to afford you, is an Addition to my happiness, for which... |
9 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 February 1811 | 1811-02-04 | All the Coins are in readiness; and Subject to your order. At present no Opportunity of sending... |
10 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 27 June 1812 | 1812-06-27 | Dont complain of my Wife. You have not a better friend, nor a great Admirer in the United States.... |
11 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 February 1790 | 1790-02-24 | Your remarks upon the Conduct of the tories, and the “young fry” who are now crouding into the... |
12 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 July 1780 | 1780-07-13 | The reduction—I will not say loss of Charlestown has produced a new Era in the politicks of... |
13 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 May 1812 | 1812-05-05 | I return you the Copies of your letters to the Messrs Smith and thier Answers, with my Advice (as... |
14 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 3 April 1807 | 1807-04-03 | The difficult and complicated labors of my professorship consisting of teaching, examining,... |
15 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 September 1805 | 1805-09-21 | The hurry always connected with the prevalence of a yellow fever in our City; has prevented my... |
16 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 August 1811 | 1811-08-20 | The time cannot be very distant when you and I must both sleep with our fathers. The... |
17 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 November 1812 | 1812-11-04 | Herewith you will receive a copy of my medical Inquiries and Observations upon the diseases of... |
18 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 April 1807 | 1807-04-22 | I enclose you the letter I mentioned in my last, from the person whom I supposed to be your son... |
19 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 July 1810 | 1810-07-04 | I have no objection to your knowing that by the “great hammer of the earth” I meant Napoleon.... |
20 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 August 1779 | 1779-08-19 | The same Opinion of your Abilities and Zeal for our country which made me rejoice in your... |
21 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 October 1810 | 1810-10-08 | I enclose you a small publication which contains an account of a new auxillary or palliative... |
22 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 March 1809 | 1809-03-13 | When a young man I read Sidney upon government. In one of his Chapters, he agitates the following... |
23 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 July 1788 | 1788-07-02 | Permit an old friend to congratulate you upon your safe arrival in your native country. I... |
24 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 August 1812 | 1812-08-21 | Your letter of August 1st is still unanswered. It is full of truth, and useful information and... |
25 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 24 August 1808 | 1808-08-24 | In Contemplating the events that have lately taken place in Spain, and their probable... |
26 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 September 1809 | 1809-09-06 | Although for many years past I have read nothing, but books upon medicine on week days, & upon... |
27 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 January 1813 | 1813-01-22 | The letter from Col: Smith to which you have alluded was not received with yours of this day. Was... |
28 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 May 1812 | 1812-05-19 | Your two letters of yesterday & to day have made me serious. They discover a profound knowledge... |
29 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 March 1811 | 1811-03-04 | Herewith th r ough the politeness of Mr Quincy you will receive the Coins for your son. I regret... |
30 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 27 October 1778 | 1778-10-27 | Your letter written a few days before your embarkation from for France, lays me under an... |
31 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 1 October 1777 | 1777-10-01 | It would have given me great pleasure to have Spent an hour with you in this place After my... |
32 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 June 1789 | 1789-06-15 | I have been so long accustomed to regard all your opinions upon goverment with reverence, that I... |
33 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 July 1812 | 1812-07-13 | Will you bear to read a letter that has nothing in it About politicks or War?—I will, without... |
34 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 28 June 1811 | 1811-06-28 | Act 1. Scene 2nd. Mr Adams alone in his Study. Enter B Rush. A: Aye Rush is that you? What is... |
35 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 September 1811 | 1811-09-20 | I shall begin my letter by replying to your daughters. I prefer giving my Opinion & Advice in you... |
36 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 September 1808 | 1808-09-22 | The politicks of our City are under the direction of three Classes of people, old tories,... |
37 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 17 February 1812 | 1812-02-17 | I began a long & confidential letter to you two weeks ago upon the Subject of one of your late... |
38 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 25 November 1806 | 1806-11-25 | I have seldom been more highly gratified than by the receipt of your letter of Novr 11th. The... |
39 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 February 1789 | 1789-02-21 | Few events have happened since the 17th of septem r: 1788, which have afforded me more pleasure... |
40 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 July 1811 | 1811-07-06 | Yrs. of June 21st. came safe to hand. I shall reply to it give you the echo of it in a few days.... |
41 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 December 1807 | 1807-12-15 | An inflammation in my eyes which for several days has confined me to my house, and rendered... |
42 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 23 October 1780 | 1780-10-23 | The discovery of Arnold’s treachery, and the new Bennington Affair in the South, have given fresh... |
43 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 16 December 1811 | 1811-12-16 | Mr Jefferson and I exchange letters Once in six, nine or twelve Months. This day I received a few... |
44 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 9 July 1807 | 1807-07-09 | I once met Alexander Cruden the Author of the Concordance of the Scriptures at Charles Dilly’s.... |
45 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 July 1789 | 1789-07-21 | From an unfortunate concurrence of circumstances, I find myself under the influence of the same... |
46 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 January 1813 | 1813-01-26 | I return you Col Smiths & Dr Waterhouse’s letters The former is replete with good Sense. Alas!... |
47 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, January 1810 | ≈1810-01-01 | Accept of my thanks for your last letter.—I enclose you a few numbers of the Aurora. Shall we... |
48 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 October 1777 | 1777-10-21 | I fear you will class me with the weeping philosophers of antiquity, but I cannot help it. He who... |
49 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 31 October 1777 | 1777-10-31 | The disorders of our Army do not proceed from any natural faults in our men. On the contrary I... |
50 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 18 February 1808 | 1808-02-18 | I have escaped for ten minutes from the pressure of business, lectures–pupils, and the Charge of... |