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[Document, 1785 January 16]

1. [Document, 1785 January 16]

  • Name: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 16, 1785
  • Summary: Tells Jay of Carlisle college whose purpose is the advancement of literature, liberty and religion. In the hands of gentlemen of liberal minds who desire union and power of Congress. Prospects for expansion are great with many private subscriptions an...
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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: 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]

3. [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]

4. [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.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1789 January 05]

5. [Document, 1789 January 05]

[Document, 1789 January 23]

6. [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]

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Document, 1795 July 23

8. Document, 1795 July 23

  • Name: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Author) Bayard, Samuel (Addressee)
  • Date: 1795 July 23
  • Summary: Is sorry that the treaty with Great Britain is universally unpopular, evinced by the public papers. Was condemned in Boston at a town meeting of 1500 persons. Prevailing unanimity in the country will, he hopes, prevent division...
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[Document, 1796 August 02]

9. [Document, 1796 August 02]

  • Name: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 02, 1796
  • Summary: Encloses copy of a medical work on the domestic origin of yellow fever, which will be of interest to the first citizen of New York. From the conclusion of this book, Jay will see that Rush has followed Jay's lead in the study of the New Testament. Rec...
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[Document, 1796 July 09]

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[Document, 1797 February 11]

11. [Document, 1797 February 11]

  • Name: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 11, 1797
  • Summary: Encloses a pamphlet. Has Jay read Illustrations of the Prophesies? This study, written by a British clergyman, even includes Gibbon and Volney in its table of materials, all of which are used to prove the truth of several Old Testament prophesies.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1797 March 22]

12. [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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[Document, 1871 February 14]

13. [Document, 1871 February 14]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1817-1894 (Author) Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 14, 1871
  • Summary: Suggests that correspondence in the Austrian archives might be copied by the U.S. Government State Department. Much of value has been gathered from state paper offices in London, Paris and The Hague, and Vienna now offers a correspondence from 1784-87...
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[Document, 1871 February 28]

14. [Document, 1871 February 28]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1817-1894 (Author) Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 28, 1871
  • Summary: Is pleased that his answer respecting the Baron de Berlin de Berthoff was satisfactory. Hopes prompt measures will be taken to procure copies of correspondence found in the Austrian archives which relate to the early history of America. At this time o...
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