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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 101 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 May 1807 | 1807-05-21 | I return you, the Letter of Edward Smith. Time may or may not unriddle this whimsical Mystery. It... |
| 102 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 May 1807 | 1807-05-01 | I thank you, my dear Sir for the promptitude of your Answer to my last Letter, and for inclosing... |
| 103 | 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... |
| 104 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 February 1807 | 1807-02-02 | You make me very happy when you Say, that you agree with me upon the Subject of the... |
| 105 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 December 1806 | 1806-12-22 | I thank you for yours of the twenty fifth of November. I was in hopes you would have explained to... |
| 106 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 November 1806 | 1806-11-11 | When I recd your favour of the 24. Oct, I Soberly expected a grave dissertation on the... |
| 107 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 September 1806 | 1806-09-19 | Thanks for your favour of Aug. 22d. My Experience is perfectly conformable to yours, respecting... |
| 108 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 July 1806 | 1806-07-23 | I have two of your Letters to acknowledge, at once. The Treatise on the Spleen I have read, and... |
| 109 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 June 1806 | 1806-06-22 | Your Letter of the tenth, like all others from your pen, notwithstanding all your apologies, was... |
| 110 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 26 March 1806 | 1806-03-26 | Your favour of the fifteenth is received. In a cornfield, which I had manured with seaweed and... |
| 111 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 January 1806 | 1806-01-25 | The new Edition of your medical Works, mentioned in your favour of the sixth of this month, have... |
| 112 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 December 1805 | 1805-12-04 | I am half inclined to be very angry with you for destroying the Anecdotes and documents you had... |
| 113 | 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... |
| 114 | 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... |
| 115 | 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... |
| 116 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 April 1805 | 1805-04-11 | I am highly gratified, to possess So authentic an Account of the Several rising branches of your... |
| 117 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 February 1805 | 1805-02-27 | I have just now received your friendly letter of the 19th. and rejoice with you Sincerely in the... |
| 118 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 6 February 1805 | 1805-02-06 | It seemeth unto me that you and I ought not to die without saying good-bye or bidding each other... |
| 119 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1790 | 1790-04-18 | Your letter of April 13, soars above the visible diurnal Sphære.— I own to you that avarice... |
| 120 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 April 1790 | 1790-04-04 | The Tories as you observe in your friendly Letter of 24 Feb. are more attached to each other;... |
| 121 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, [17] February 1790 | 1790-02-17 | I had heard, before I rec d your Letter of the 12 th , of your new Engagements in the Colledge... |
| 122 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 February 1790 | 1790-02-02 | I cannot give up my dear Latin and Greek although Fortune has never permitted me to enjoy so much... |
| 123 | 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... |
| 124 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 24 July 1789 | 1789-07-24 | I have persecuted you, too much with my Letters.— I beg you would give yourself no trouble to... |
| 125 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 15 July 1789 | 1789-07-15 | I have read D r Rush, de moribus Germanorum, with pleasure. As I am a great lover of paradoxes,... |
| 126 | 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... |
| 127 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 June 1789 | 1789-06-19 | Your Single Principle, in your Letter of the 15 th must fail you.— You say “that Republican... |
| 128 | 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 ,... |
| 129 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 17 May 1789 | 1789-05-17 | Your favour of the 19 of March deserves a particular consideration and answer, which I have not,... |
| 130 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 8 February 1789 | 1789-02-08 | Your obliging favor of the 22 d Ult I rec d. last night.— I remember so much of the transactions,... |
| 131 | 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... |
| 132 | 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... |
| 133 | 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... |
| 134 | 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... |
| 135 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 April 1782 | 1782-04-22 | Mr Peter Paulus, is seized with an enthusiasm to go to Philadelphia, with his Journeymen. I... |
| 136 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 20 September 1780 | 1780-09-20 | Yours of 13 July I have received. Your Account of the Resurrection of the Spirit of 65 and 6, is... |
| 137 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 July 1780 | 1780-07-01 | I Yesterday, received your Favour of the 28 of April, the first Since my Arrival by Dr. John... |
| 138 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 November 1779 | 1779-11-04 | Your favours of Octr. 12 and 19 are before me. I should not have left the first Seven days... |
| 139 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 September 1779 | 1779-09-19 | I had the Pleasure of yours of August 19, by the last Post, and thank you for your kind... |
| 140 | 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... |
| 141 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 6 December 1778 | 1778-12-06 | I had the Pleasure of a Letter from you, a few days before I Sailed from Boston, which I have... |
| 142 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, with Postscript by … | 1778-02-08 | Two Days ago, I was favoured with your polite and elegant Letter of January 22. I have received... |