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[Document, 1785 March 24]

1. [Document, 1785 March 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 24, 1785
  • Summary: Thanks Rush for his approbation of his European mission. Glad Congress has granted the application of Dickinson College. Knowledge is the soul of are public, and the only way to diminish the number of the weak and wicked. Education should be cheap and...
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[Document, 1785 March 24]

2. [Document, 1785 March 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 24, 1785
  • Summary: Congratulates him on the success of his application to Congress for Dickenson College. In praise of knowledge. Thanks Rush for the pamphlet he sent. Desires that all discrimination should end.
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[Document, 1786 April 12]

3. [Document, 1786 April 12]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 12, 1786
  • Summary: Will read Rush's plan for the establishment of public schools and the paper containing his oration.
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[Document, 1789 January 23]

4. [Document, 1789 January 23]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 23, 1789
  • Summary: Extract: Public affairs should be committed to men "of abilities and liberality". As education wider, so will more citizens have these qualifications. "Neither wisdom nor liberty can have permanent abodes with civilized ignorance; for the external all...
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[Document, 1789 January 23]

5. [Document, 1789 January 23]

[Document, 1797 March 22]

6. [Document, 1797 March 22]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 22, 1797
  • Summary: Commends his eulogy on the death of [David] Rittenhouse. Has not yet had an opportunity to look at the "Illustrations of the Prophecies"- will do so when he returns to New York City. The times are evil, but the one consolation is that the affliction o...
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