Consists of manuscripts, notebooks, books, memoranda, and legal opinions of Richard Rush.
This series is arranged into five subseries: Manuscripts, Notebooks, Commonplace Books, Memoranda, and Legal Opinions.
Extracts from Rush's Residence at the Court of London, Relating to Benjamin West, dates not examined
Notes on Chancery Law, undated
"References for the British Plenipotentiaries..." (Relating to Charters), dates not examined
"A Construction of the act of congress creating the Board of Naval Commissioners", 1815 February
Warburton Estate, 1815
Revolutionary War Claims, 1828
Consists of the letters and letterbooks of Richard Rush.
This series is arranged into four subseries: Letters Sent by Richard Rush, Letters Received by Richard Rush, Letterbooks of Richard Rush (by correspondent), and Letterbooks of Richard Rush (by volume).
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1824
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1817
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1818
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1819
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1820
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1821
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1822
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1823
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), 1824
Andrews, J. R., 1821
Arago, B., 1849
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1819-1846
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1826
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1838
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1844
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1846
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1819
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1820
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1821
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1823
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1824
Auldjo, Mr., 1818
Austin, Mrs., 1847
Barrot, Ferdinand, 1849
Bayard, Samuel, 1821
Bedell, G. T., 1833
Bigland, Thomas, 1823
Bohlen, Mr., 1859
Boileau, N. B., 1817
Bonner, J., 1847
Bosley, N. M., Colonel, 1821
Boyd, Joseph B., 1852
Brent, Daniel, 1819-1837
Brent, Daniel, 1819
Brent, Daniel, 1820
Brent, Daniel, 1821
Brent, Daniel, 1823
Brent, Daniel, 1824
Browne, Samuel J., 1818
Burwell, W. A., 1820
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839), 1814
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839), 1815
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839), 1816
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839), 1817
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839), 1819
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839), 1826
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839), 1827
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839), 1828
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839), 1830
Chapelliar, M., 1849
Chew, Robert, 1848
Christy, Robert F., 1843
Conkling, Thomas C., 1820
(Circular), 1822
Cossart, John (Dublin), 1818
Coulier, A. M., 1848
Creighton, Eban, 1848
Crommelin, D. G., 1829
Crossmore, A. D., 1847
D'Aglie, Count, 1820
Dallas, G. M., 1849
Degousee, M. M., 1848
Del Rio, Garcia (Lima), 1822
De Pfeffel, Mr., 1818-1821
Dickens, Asbury, 1845
Disney, Mr., 1854
Dix, John, 1823
Edghill, George, 1819
England, Bank of, 1818
Evans, Britton, 1824
Farnsworth, Jacob, 1821
Fendall, Philip, 1828-1857
Feray, Colonel, 1849
Fernandez, Mr., 1821
Flanagan, Mr., 1849
Forrest, R., 1822
Vol. 1: pp. 40, 45, 54, 56, 62, 69, 72, 79, 88, 94, 101, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 114, 117), 1837
Vol. 2: pp. 151, 164, 172, 181, 183, 193, 195, 201, 203, 205, 213, 228, 231, 249, 253, 257, 1838
Fox, Alfred, 1822
Fressange, Mr., 1849
Fuller, Mr., 1818
Gardner, Mr., 1817
Giech, Count, 1819
Glennie, A. and Son, 1818
Goulard, M. E., 1848
Goundie, George H., 1848
Grier, R. C., 1849
Grigsby, J. W., 1848
Guillemard, J.L., 1837
Hafner, Peter, 1827
Hall, Harrison, 1820
Hall, Spencer, 1837
Harrison, Monroe, 1822
Harrison, Richard, 1815
Hepburn, John M., 1822
Hill, Mrs. Agnes, 1820
Homer, F. L., 1848
Hooker, L. C., 1848
Humphreys, Samuel, 1822-1823
Ironside, George E., 1824
"Joint Negotiations", 1818
Jones, Thomas, 1821
Kane, J. K., undated
Karrick, Mr., 1820
Kempton, Moses, 1819
Kisseleff, M. De, 1849
Lambert, William, 1821
Lee, Edmund J., 1818
Lesieur, Mrs., 1849
Ludolf, Count, 1818
McRae, Alexander, 1824
Mark, Jacob, 1820-1822
Martin, J. L., 1847
Mason, John, 1821-1839
Menou, Cound de, 1820
Metton, Mr., 1819
Mirandoli, G. G., 1849
Moreau, C., 1848
Moreil, Donald L., 1826
Morford, Edmund, 1827
Morrison, Mr., 1821
Muller, Mr., 1824
Murray, James, 1844
Muter, Dr., 1819
Newman, Henry, 1848
Newton, Thomas, 1827
Niles, Mr., 1848
Noel, Mr., 1818
Penn, Mr., 1819
Perkins, David L., 1858
Petrikin, James M., 1823
Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), 1818
Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), 1821
Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), 1822
Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), 1818
Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), 1819
Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), 1820
Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), 1821
Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), 1822
Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), 1824
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1819-1848
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1820
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1821
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1822
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1823
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1824
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1825
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1819
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1820
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1823
Pleasonton, Stephen, 1825
Pond, Adam, 1822
Randolph, Philip, 1847
Ravenga, Mr., 1823
Reed, Isaac, 1843
Reynolds, Thomas Coute, 1847
Robertson, Joseph H., 1820
Roman, A. B., 1848
Salisbury, Dr., 1836
Sands, Joseph, 1815
Sarmento, Mr., 1822
Saunders, Joseph, 1822
Selby, William, 1848
Shepherd, Allen, 1820
Smith, Richard, 1833
Smith, T. L., 1849
Sotomayer, Duke of, 1848
Secretary of the Navy, 1823
Spencer, Mrs., 1847
Stovin, Charles (Hull), 1820
Sullivan, Mr., 1848
Sumner, George, 1849
Taft, J. K., 1842
Thorton, Colonel, 1814
Thompson, Hugh, 1819
Todd, John, Col., 1823
Toppan, Charles, 1822
Towle, George M., 1857
Traquair, J., 1813
Twiney, John, 1822
Vaissane, General, 1849
Vandien, R., 1853
Vos, Y, 1819
Walker, R. J., 1846
Warden, Mr., 1849
Wetmore, Mrs. Rachel, 1820
Wharton, T. J., 1827
Willcocks, Lewis, 1823
Williams, H. G., 1823
Williams, John P., 1857
Wilson, Thomas and Co., 1819
Wilson, Thomas and Co., 1822
Wilson, Thomas and Co., 1823
Wingrove, Mr., 1823
Woodbury, Levi (1789-1851), 1838
Yorke, Mrs., 1849
Unidentified, 1819-1842
1819-1842, 1819-1842
Affleck, Lady, 1823
Allsopp, L., 1823
Amory, J., 1849
Andrews, Joseph R., 1821
Annandale, Janet, 1824
Antrobus, E., 1823
Atkins, John, 1819
Auldjo, Thomas, 1818-1821
Baker, Mr., 1824
Bankhead, Charles, 1849
Baring Brothers, 1829-1848
Barlow, Sir Robert, 1821
Bartley, George, 1818
Bastide, Jules, 1848-1849
Bayard, L. B., 1823
Bayard, W. M., 1845
Beloe, Charles, 1819
Bertrand, Mr., 1848
Birney, Mrs. H., 1847
Bobby, Arthur P., 1848
Bonner, J., 1847
Bouis, A., 1847
Bourbirelle, Count, 1847
Boyd, Joseph B., 1852
Brent, Daniel, 1821-1837
Brent, Daniel, 1821
Brent, Daniel, 1822
Brent, Daniel, 1823
Brent, Daniel, 1824
Brent, Daniel, 1825
Brent, Daniel, 1837
Brooke, C. W., 1839-1841
Bulwer, Sir Henry, 1850
Burd, E. S., 1844
Burden, [J. N.], 1835
Burrows, P. E., 1847
Cadwalader, Thomas, 1812-1833
Calvart, J., 1856
Campbell, E. M., 1818
Capper, Elizabeth, 1818
Capper, Mr., 1823
Caraman, Count, 1821-1855
Caraman, Count, 1821
Caraman, Count, 1850
Caraman, Count, 1851
Caraman, Count, 1852
Caraman, Count, 1853
Caraman, Count, 1854
Caraman, Count, 1855
Caraman, Count, undated
Carysfort, Lord, 1821
Caton, Betsy, 1829
Cetto, Baron de, 1821-1825
Cetto, Baron de, 1821
Cetto, Baron de, 1822
Cetto, Baron de, 1823
Cetto, Baron de, 1824
Cetto, Baron de, 1825
Chandler, W. J., 1817
Chauncy, C., 1824
Cheetham, William, 1824
Chester, Mr., 1818
Chester, Sir Robert, 1819-1824
Chinnery, G. R., 1823
Choppin, F. A., 1848
Chowlton, E., 1848
Circourt, Count de, 1847-1856
Circourt, Count de, 1847
Circourt, Count de, 1849
Circourt, Count de, 1854
Circourt, Count de, 1856
Clanwilliam, Lord, 1818-1822
Clarke, Sir George, 1822
Clarendon, Lord, 1837
Clementi, M., 1821
Clerk, Sir George, 1822
Cochrane, Mrs., 1821
Colman, Henry, 1848
Colquhoun, Mr., 1819-1822
Conroy, Sir John, 1828
Cooper, Astley, 1834
Cotes, Charlotte, 1829
Cotronée, Mr. Ph., 1848
Coulier, Mr., 1848
Cowdin, Elliot C., 1847
Coxe, John, 1830
Coxe, Sarah, 1824
Cranch, W., 1823
Crawford, Mrs., 1853
Crawford, William, 1816
Creighton, Eban, 1848
Croskey, Joseph R., 1849
Crowinshield, Mr., 1818
Curwen, J., 1821
Curtis, Stephen, 1822
Cushing, C., 1826
Cuthbert, Emily Rush, 1824-1841
Cuthbert, John, 1821
Dana, James G., 1833
Daniell, W. C., 1847
Davezac, Auguste, 1848
Davy, William, 1818-1824
Davyou, A., 1849
Day, Edward, 1823
D'Aylie, Count, 1820
Dearborn, Henry, 1823
Letterbook VII [8], 1823
Delaplaine, Joseph, 1817-1820
Del Rio, Garcia, 1824
Degousée, Mr., 1848
Denison, Mr., 1824
Dessirier, 1849
Devereux, General J., 1829-1849
Devoe, Daniel L., 1818
Dick, John, 1816
Dickins, Asbury, 1835-1846
Dickins, Asbury, 1835
Dickins, Asbury, 1836
Dickins, Asbury, 1839
Dickins, Asbury, 1840
Dickins, Asbury, 1845
Dickins, Asbury, 1846
Dickinson, N., 1819
Disney, D. L., 1843
Doguerrir, 1847
Dorr, James A., 1848
Dougherty, Thomas, 1818
Draper, George, 1847
Drury, F. O'Rourke, 1825
Duane, William, 1850
Duncan, William, 1824-1825
Dutcher, Samuel, 1824
Duval, E. W., 1815
Earle, Robert, 1848
Elliot, Jonathan, 1844
Elliot, S. A., 1846
Esterhazy, Prince, 1824
Eustis, George, 1852
Evans, Brittan, 1824
Evans, Elwood, 1847
Ewing, Samuel, 1815-1820
Fendall, P. R., 1857
Field, R. G., 1852
Finas, Duke of, 1820
Finley, Alice, 1847
Flagg, Edmund, 1849
Fladgate, W. M., 1836-1856
Flanagan, F. J., 1849
Flannigan, B. R., 1848
Forbes, J. M., 1818
Foreman, E., 1850
Foster, William, 1847
Franklin, Walter, 1815
French, B. B., 1846-1847
Frias, Duc De, 1820
Gales and Seaton, 1828-1853
Gallagher, Mr., 1817
Galt, John, 1821
Gambier, Lord, 1819
Gamble, William, 1821
Gardiner, John, 1817
Gaudau, 1847
Gibbons, Thomas, 1822
Gibson, John B., 1825
Giech, Count, 1819
Glaser, Beulah B., 1848
Gombier, Lord, 1819
Gontier, Mr., 1825
Gouge, William M., 1847
Goulard, E., 1848
Goulburn, Henry, 1818
Goundie, G. H., 1849
Gouvernour, Samuel, 1832
Graebe, Charles, 1848
Graulhié, Gérard, 1824
Greene and Company, 1848
Greene, J. B., 1849
Greenhow, Robert, 1848
Gregory, G. G., 1819
Grey, Sir George, 1822
Groulhié, Gérard, 1824
Guillemard, J., 1837
Gurney, W. B., 1819
Gust, Baron, 1819
Hale, Mr., 1849
Hale, William G., 1847
Halkett, Mr., 1821
Halliday, Joseph, 1823
Hamilton, A. Boyd, 1846
Hamilton, James A., 1837
Hamilton, William, 1818-1822
Hamilton, William, 1818
Hamilton, William, 1819
Hamilton, William, 1821
Hamilton, William, 1822
Hamm, J., 1815
Hanchett, M. W., 1849
Hardwicke, Lord, 1818
Hare, Mrs. Martha, 1819-1822
Haskoll, James, 1823
Hawes, Aylett, 1814
Hawkes, Wright, 1848
Hawkins, John J., 1819-1822
Haydon, John A., 1847
Henderson, J. H., 1820
Hewison, Ann, 1818
Heylin, Isaac, 1811
Hiester, John S., 1847
Hill, Mrs. M. D., 1825
Hilliard, Henry W., 1848
Hobbie, S. R., 1847
Hobhouse, Benjamin, 1818-1824
Hobhouse, Benjamin, 1818
Hobhouse, Benjamin, 1822
Hobhouse, Benjamin, 1823
Hobhouse, Benjamin, 1824
Hodgson and Graves, 1838
Hoffman, William, 1824
Hoitt, Mr., 1820
Holland, Sir Henry, 1845
Holland, W., 1823
Holmes, J. E., 1848
Homans, Benjamin, 1814-1819
Homans, Benjamin, 1814
Homans, Benjamin, 1815
Homans, Benjamin, 1816
Homans, Benjamin, 1817
Homans, Benjamin, 1819
Homer, F. L., 1848
Homer, P. T., 1848
Hopkinson, F., 1847
Hopkinson, Joseph, 1823
Hosack, David, 1823-1828
Hubbard, Nat. D., 1848
Hudson, W. B., 1819
Huger, Benjamin, 1819
Hull, A. W. H., 1847
Humphreys, Samuel, 1822-1824
Humphrys, Daniel, 1815
Hunter, Charles, 1847
Huskisson, William, 1824-1825
Hutchins, Henry J., 1816
Hyde, J. Burrows, 1848
Inglis, Robert Harry, 1820-1838
Ironside, George, 1824
Irving, James, 1837
Irwin, W. W., 1847
Iselin, William, 1848
Jeffrey, Francis, 1814
Johnson, R. M., 1814
Jones, Thomas, 1820-1822
Jones, Thomas, 1820
Jones, Thomas, 1821
Jones, Thomas, 1822
Jones, Thomas, undated
Joy, G., 1829-1847
Kane, Judge J. K., 1847
Kelly, Daniel, 1823
Kennedy, Alfred S., 1856
Kennedy, Thomas, 1824
Krum, John M., 1848
Landis, John, 1847
Lawrence, Abbott, 1847
Law, Mr., dates not examined
Lear, B. L., 1831
Lee, Carter, 1826
Legare, Miss, 1846
Lehman, George F., 1848
Leidy, Joseph, 1855
Lester, Edward, 1843
Lewis, Major W. B., 1847
L'Huys, E. Drouyn de, 1848-1849
Ligne, Prince de, 1847
Liverpool, Lord, 1824
Livingston, R., 1820
Lloyd, Edward, 1818
Lock, James, 1836
Lowndes, W., 1822
Ludlow, T. W., 1836
Ludolf, Count, 1823-1824
Lyndhurst, Lord, 1829
Lyttleton, Lord, 1819-1835
Lyttleton, Lord, 1819
Lyttleton, Lord, 1820
Lyttleton, Lord, 1829
Lyttleton, Lord, 1831
Lyttleton, Lord, 1834
Lyttleton, Lord, 1835
Lyttleton, Lord, undated
McGregor and Sons, 1847
MacKenzie, Mr., 1820
McKenzie, A. T., 1846
MacKintosh, Sir James, 1821-1829
MacLean, Dr., 1824
MacLean, Charles, 1821
Macomb, H. B., 1846
McWilliam, Robert, 1818
Maltzahn, Baron, 1821
Mandelsloh, Count, 1820-1850
Mansfield, John, 1821
Mansini, H. E., 1848
Mareuil, Baron de, 1825
Mark, Jacob, 1818-1822
Markoe, Francis, 1844-1850
Markoe, Francis, 1844
Markoe, Francis, 1844
Markoe, Francis, 1846
Markoe, Francis, 1847
Markoe, Francis, 1848
Markoe, Francis, 1850
Markoe, Mrs., 1846
Marquette, Joseph, 1849
Marshall, W. L., 1851
Martet, Fanny, 1847
Marten, J. L., 1845-1847
Marx, George, 1829
Mason, Eilbeck, 1832
Mason, [G. T.], 1819
Mason, J. Jr., 1847
Mathew, G. Mr., 1854
Mathias, Benjamin, 1839
Maury, John W., 1853
Mava, G. F., 1822
May, C. H., 1856
Maynardier, W. M., 1826
Meade, R. W., 1819
Mease, James, 1819-1820
Mein, W., 1821
Middleton, Henry, 1821-1822
Miller, John, 1820-1847
Mills, E. H., 1823
Miner, Charles, 1839
Minot, William, 1806
Mitchell, F., 1818
Mitchell, J. K., 1847-1849
Mofras, M. de, 1849
Moltke, Count, 1825
Montebello, Duc de, 1849
Montgomery, John, 1847
Morris, Mrs., 1822
Morris, Thomas, 1844
Morrison, Mr., 1821
Muller, Mr., 1824
Mumford, John J., 1846
Munster, Count, 1824
Murdock, Mr., 1820
Murray, Charles, 1818-1823
Murray, Henry, 1823
Murray, J., 1844-1845
Neuville, Hyde de, 1817
Newbold, George, 1838
Morris, William, 1835-1847
Norvell, John, 1843
Oaseby, Sir Gore, 1837
Oliveira, Mr., 1822
Olmstead, L. G., 1848
Orlando, John, 1824-1825
Otis, H. G., 1826
Page, James, 1847-1848
Pageot, Mrs. Mary, 1848-1849
Palmella, Count, 1819
Palmer, Aaron H., 1847
Parish, David, 1818
Parker, Mr., 1847
Parker, Thomas, 1812
Penn, Granville J., 1852
Penn, J., 1818
Penn, R., 1820
Penniman, E. A., 1848
Pepin, J. F., 1849
Perkins, Charles, 1849
Perkins, David L., 1858
Peter, M., 1815
Peters, Richard, 1813-1829
Peters, Richard, 1813
Peters, Richard, 1825
Peters, Richard, 1828
Peters, Richard, 1829
Peyton, John H., 1827
Physick, Dr. P. S., 1821
Pickering, William, 1847
Plitt, George, 1847
Polk, Robert, 1814-1817
Pollon, Count de, 1820
Purviance, John H., 1817-1819
Randall, Josiah, 1849
Randolph, Philip, 1847
Ranguet, Mr., 1847
Read, John Meredith, 1849
Revenga, Joseph R., 1823
Reynolds, T. C., 1847
Rhinelander, J. A., 1851
Roberts, John, 1818
Robertson, W. H., 1848
Robinson, Mr., 1819
Robinson, Rt. Hon., 1819
Rogers, Lloyd N., 1824
Rolle, Lord, 1821-1823
Romer, Mrs. N. A., 1823
Rooker, J. B., 1818
Rotch, B., 1823
Roth, Mr., 1820
Rush, Ann, 1847
Rush, Catherine M., 1836
Rush, Julia Stockton, 1818-1824
Rush, William, 1847
Russ, Charles E., 1847
Russell, F., 1824
Rutledge, F., 1823
Sabins, Joseph W., 1848
[Saerosie, C.], 1849
Salisbury, S., 1836
Salvandy, M. De, 1847
San Carlos, Duke of, 1818-1819
Sanford, Nathan, 1826
Santon, Henry, 1847
Schweize, Baron De, 1848
Scott, J. M., 1828
Scott, Sir William, 1820
Sequier, Baron, 1824
Shaler, William, 1825
Sherburne, John H., 1847
Silsbee, Nathanial, 1848
Simms, W. Gilmore, 1852
Singer, S. W., 1837
Smith, J. A., 1823-1825
Smith, S. H., 1817
Smith, T. L., 1847-1849
Somerset, Duke of, 1824-1839
Somerset, Duke of, 1824
Somerset, Duke of, 1827
Somerset, Duke of, 1829
Somerset, Duke of, 1839
Somerset, Duchess of, 1824
[Sophia, Princess], 1825
Sprague, Joseph E., 1828
Stafford, Lord, 1824
Stanton, Henry, 1847
Stanton, S. R., 1847
Staples, W. J., 1848-1849
Stapleton, A. G., 1824-1833
Staunton, George, 1837
Staunton, George, 1838
Staunton, George, 1841
Staunton, George, 1846
Storer, Mr., 1818
Strangford, Lord, 1825
Sullivan, John T., 1845-1859
Sullivan, John T., 1845
Sullivan, John T., 1846
Sullivan, John T., 1847
Sullivan, John T., 1852
Sullivan, John T., 1857
Sullivan, John T., 1859
Sumner, George, 1849
Sussex, Duke of, 1821-1837
Sussex, Duke of, 1821
Sussex, Duke of, 1822
Sussex, Duke of, 1837
Sussex, Duke of, undated
Sutherland, Duchess, 1826-1836
Sykes, R. W., 1849
Taliaferro, John, 1826
Tayloe, Benjamin Ogle, 1819-1851
Taylor, J., 1847
Thompson, [Dean], 1819
Thomson, John R., 1846
Thornton, Colonel, 1814
Tilghman, William, 1825
Tissot, Mr., 1847
Trotter, Sir Coutts, 1820-1837
Traquair, James, 1813
Troup, M., 1823
Tucker, Thomas T., 1817
Tuyll, Baron, 1825
Tyng, Stephen H., 1847
Ullman, F., 1848
Unidentified, 1821-1848
Vaipone, Mr., 1849
Van Buren, John, 1847
Van Dien, R., 1833
Van Ness, C. P., 1813
Vaughan, Charles R., 1828-1835
Vaux, Michael, 1846-1848
Villa Real, Count, 1824
Walker, D., 1824
Walker, J. Knox, 1848
Walker, R. J., 1848
Waller, C. C., 1838
Ward, Henry Dana, 1848-1849
Ware, Henry, Jr., 1834
Washington, Dr., 1826
Watkins, Dr., 1825
Watkins, George, 1825
Wesgate, John, 1823
Westmorland, Lord, 1829-1836
Westmorland, Lady, 1839
Wetmore, Rachel, 1820
Wickliffe, Robert, 1815
Wickoff, Henry, 1849
Wilcocks, B. G., 1821-1823
Willard, Joseph, 1858
Williams, John P., 1856
Williams, [T. S.], 1857
Willis, Thomas W., 1836
Wilson, Sir Robert, 1829
Wilson, Thomas, 1824
Wise, Henry A., 1848
Wolcott, Oliver, 1822
Wood, C., dates not examined
Woodbridge, Mr., 1824-1825
Woods, Alva, 1823
Wormeley, R. R., 1848
Young, Jonathan, 1822
Zantzinger, W. C., 1848
Anderson, David (Minister of the Gospel, Brogghole near Nairon, Scotland), 1821 July 16-September 20
Brown, James, 1824 April 6-July 25
Brown, James, 1824 April 6
Brown, James, 1824 May 10
Brown, James, 1824 June 13
Brown, James, 1824 July 4
Brown, James, 1824 July 25
Burwell, W. A., 1820 May 6
Dix, John, 1823 October 15
Fernandez, Mr., 1821 June 11
Forrest, R., 1822 November 8
Fox, Alfred, 1822 February 8
Fox, Thomas W. (Acting Consul of the United States at Falmouth), 1818 March 30-1823 October 8
Gerrans, Nicholas (Acting Consul of the United States at Cowes), 1820 May 3-1823 September 27
Giech, Count, 1819 March 2
Hall, Harrison, 1820 June 10
"Joint Negotiations", 1818 August 27
Karrick, Mr., 1820 May 17
Kempton, Moses, 1819 June 30
La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Montier, Marquis de (1757-1834), 1821 November 22
Lambert, John, 1819 July 22
Lee, Edmund J., 1818 July 18
Mark, Jacob, 1820 July 14-1822 May 2
Mason, John, 1821 June 26-August 2
Metton, Mr., 1819 May 21
Mollen, John Gabriel (Swedish and Norwegian Vice Consul at Dartmouth), 1820 March 24-April 4
Muller, Mr., 1824 March 30
Muter, Dr., 1819 January 4
Noel, Mr., 1818 January 7
Pond, Adam, 1822 March 22-May 6
Ravenga, Mr., 1823 October 4
Robinson, Frederick John, Viscount Goderich, 1st Earl of Ripon (1782-1859), 1820 September 11
Smith, J. A., 1820 March 8-10
Thompson, Hugh, 1819 April 7
Toppan, Charles, 1822 May 4
Twiney, John, 1822 March 22-April 6
Vos, Y., 1819 July 12
Winn (Wynn), Thomas (Consul of the United States at Turks' Island), 1818 April 28-1819 September 8
Volume I [1], 1817-1818
Volume [2], 1818
Volume II [3], 1818-1819
Giech, Count, 1819 March 2
Kempton, Moses, 1819 June 30
Metton, Mr., 1819 May 21
Muter, Dr., 1819 January 4
Noel, Mr., 1818 January 7
Thompson, Hugh, 1819 April 7
Volume III [4], 1819-1820
Burwell, W. A., 1820 May 6
Hall, Harrison, 1820 June 10
Karrick, Mr., 1820 May 17
Lambert, John, 1819 July 22
Mollen, John Gabriel (Swedish and Norwegian Vice Consul at Dartmouth), 1820 March 24-April 4
Smith, J. A., 1820 March 8-10
Vos, Y., 1819 July 12
Volume IIII [5], 1820-1821
Canning, Sir Stratford, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880), 1820 August 2-November 23
Mark, Jacob, 1820 July 14
Robinson, Frederick John, Viscount Goderich, 1st Earl of Ripon (1782-1859), 1820 September 11
Volume V [6], 1821-1822
Anderson, David (Minister of the Gospel, Brogghole near Nairon, Scotland), 1821 July 16-September 20
Fernandez, Mr., 1821 June 11
Fox, Alfred, 1822 February 8
La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilvert du Montier, Marquis de (1757-1834), 1821 November 22
Mark, Jacob, 1822 May 2
Pond, Adam, 1822 March 22-May 6
Toppan, Charles, 1822 May 4
Twiney, John, 1822 March 22-April 6
Volume VI [7], 1822
Volume VII [8], 1823-1824
Dix, John, 1823 October 15
Ravenga, Mr., 1823 October 4
Volume VIII [9], 1824
Volume IX [10], 1824
Brent, Daniel, 1824 June 30
Volume X [11], 1824-1825
Consists of papers, documents, and correspondence relating to the English Mission. Included are items regarding the impressment of soldiers, the Northwest Territory, fisheries, West Indian Trade, slave trade, Spain, and the St. Lawrence River.
This series is arranged into ten subseries: Papers Relating to Impressment of Soldiers, Columbia River - Northwest Territory, Fisheries, Arbuthnot and Ambrister (Seminole Wars), West Indian Trade, Slave Trade, Spain, St. Lawrence River, Miscellaneous Papers, Documents, and Correspondence, and Printed Documents.
Consists of correspondence and papers related to the French Mission.
This series is arranged into two subseries: Correspondence (in Letterbook, Box 11), and Miscellaneous Papers.
Arago, B., 1849 March 27
Feray, Colonel, 1849 June 20
Goulard, M. E., 1848 May 8
Homer, F. L, 1848 July
1848 July, 1848 July
Newman, Henry, 1848 July 15
Staples, W. J., 1848 May 7
Staples, W. J., 1848 June 28
Staples, W. J., 1849 July 12
Series 5: Papers, Documents, and Correspondence Relating to the Smithsonian Trust, 1834-1876
Consists of correspondence and papers related to the Smithsonian Trust.
This series is arranged into two subseries: Correspondence, and Miscellaneous Papers.
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1838-1846
Dickins, Asbury, 1836-1846
Elliot, S. A., 1846
Fladgate, W. M., 1836-1856
Foreman, E., 1850
Forsyth, John, 1836-1838
French, B. B., 1846-1847
Guillemard, J., 1837
Hamilton, A. Boyd, 1846
Henry, Joseph, 1849-1876
Henry, Joseph, 1849
Henry, Joseph, 1850
Henry, Joseph, 1851
Henry, Joseph, 1852
Henry, Joseph, 1853
Henry, Joseph, 1854
Henry, Joseph, 1855
Henry, Joseph, 1856
Henry, Joseph, 1857
Henry, Joseph, 1859
Henry, Joseph, 1860
Henry, Joseph, 1876
Legare, Miss, 1846
Lester, Edward, 1843
Macomb, H. B., 1846
Markoe, Francis, 1844-1847
Markoe, Mrs., 1846
Mathias, Benjamin, 1839
Maury, John W., 1853
Montgomery, John, 1847
Mumford, John J., 1846
Newbold, George, 1838
Page, James, 1847
Rhinelander, J. A., 1851
Smith, T. L., 1847
Vaux, Michael, 1846
Series 6: Documents, 1810-1859
Consists primarily of personal documents of Richard Rush.
Arranged by genre of material.
Consists of the invitations and miscellaneous papers of Richard Rush.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
Consists of the writings of Benjamin Rush, including "Appeal for the Union," "Lines on the death of Thomas Jefferson," and "Validictory Oration," as well as others.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
Consists of the correspondence of Benjamin Rush with individuals such as Andrew Jackson, William Henry Seward, and Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
This series is arranged into two subseries: Letters Sent by Benjamin Rush, and Letters Received by Benjamin Rush.
Albermarle, Lord, 1873
Hewitt, A. S., 1876
Hope-Vere, Sophia, 1841
Hunter, Hon. W., 1866
Parker, Joel, 1816-1888
Schuyler, Philip, 1840-1841
Thomson, James, 1839
Upshur, Virginia, 1831
Westmorland, Lady, 1867
Unidentified, 1841
Albemarle, Lady, 1873
Albermarle, Lord, 1872
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1868
Athenaeun, 1873
Bigelow, John, 1866
Borst, A., 1877
Buchanan, James, 1860
1869 (1, copy), 1870
Chew, Kathy, 1840
Clark, E. S., 1859
Erechtheum Club, 1841
Everett, Edward, 1860
Evereux, J. D., 1838
Flanders, Henry, 1874
George, B. B., 1828
Granville, Lady, 1872
n.d., dates not examined
Holland, H., 1839
Ingersoll, Charles, 1866
Inglis, Robert H., 1839
Irving, Washington, 1842
Jack, C. J., 1841
Keen, W. W., 1874
Kenyon, John, 1839
Lafayette, Oscar, 1860
Landis, John, 1841
Lee, Fitzhugh, 1874-1876
Lee, Henry C., 1876
Lloyd, Edward, 1859
Manhall, H. H., 1875
Mannus, Julia, 1838-1841
Mason, J. M., 1859
Meeker, William P., 1838
Middleton, Arthur, 1840
Montgomery, R. R., 1874
Murray, Sara, 1831
Mustin, Thomas, 1841
Mutter, Thomas D., 1840
Penn, Mr., 1852
Peter, William, 1852
Pierrie, Harcourt, 1874
Pollon, Count, 1840
Powel, Samuel, 1841
Reform Club, 1872
Robinson, George Frederick Samuel, 1st Marquis of Ripon, Viscount Goderich (1827-1909), 1867-1872
Rush, Madison, 1837-1839
Rush, Richard Henry, 1838-1874
Rush, Richard Henry, 1838
Rush, Richard Henry, 1840
Rush, Richard Henry, 1846
Rush, Richard Henry, 1847
Rush, Richard Henry, 1848
Rush, Richard Henry, 1850
Rush, Richard Henry, 1866
Rush, Richard Henry, 1874
Sank, J. Rinaldo, 1874
Seymour, G. Henry, 1867
Singer, S. W., 1839-1840
Singleton, M. R., 1847
Stockton, Richard, 1847
Stubbs, Edward, 1840
Swann, W. C., 1871
Vaughan, Charles, 1840
Vaughan, P., 1840
Vaux, N. I., 1855
Vernon, Francis, 1877
Vigne, G. T., 1841
Villiers, George William Frederick, 4th Earl of Clarendon and 4th Baron Hyde (1800-1870), 1867-1868
Villiers, George William Frederick, 4th Earl of Clarendon and 4th Baron Hyde (1800-1870), 1867
Villiers, George William Frederick, 4th Earl of Clarendon and 4th Baron Hyde (1800-1870), 1868
Waln, Edward, 1874
Warren, G. G., Jr., 1867
Consists of the documents of Benjamin Rush, including the Rush family genealogy, passports, report cards, and commissions.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
Consists of the papers of Benjamin Rush, including his works, letters, and miscellaneous documents.
This series is arranged into five subseries: Works of Benjamin Rush, Letters Sent by Benjamin Rush, Letters Received by Benjamin Rush, Miscellaneous Documents, and Benjamin Rush as subject.
Adams, John, 1812
Boudinot, Elias, 1781
Fragment, 1790
Boudinot, Elias, 1783
Boudinot, Elias, 1790
Bradford, Thomas, 1768
[Green, Ashbel], 1807
Hall, Elihu, 1778
McCleland, John, 1797
McCleland, John, 1798
McCleland, John, 1803
McCleland, John, 1804
McCleland, John, 1812
Madison, James, 1801
Morgan, George, 1779
1797-1856, 1797-1856
Stockton, Polly, 1788
Yeats, Jasper, 1783
Consists of the papers of Julia Stockton Rush, comprised of letters sent by and received by Julia Stockton Rush.
This series is arranged into two subseries: Letters Sent by Julia Stockton Rush, and Letters Received by Julia Stockton Rush.
Hunter, Mrs. Mary, 1798
Hunter, Mrs. Mary, 1799
Hunter, Mrs. Mary, 1800
Hunter, Mrs. Mary, 1825
Hunter, Mrs. Mary, 1826
Manners, Mary R., 1836
Rush, Benjamin, undated
Rush, Benjamin, 1827
Rush, Benjamin, 1838
Rush, Benjamin, 1840
Rush, Catherine M., 1817
Rush, Catherine M., 1818
Rush, Catherine M., 1819
Rush, Catherine M., 1822
Rush, Catherine M., 1827
Rush, Catherine M., 1829
Rush, Catherine M., 1832
Rush, Catherine M., 1807
Rush, Catherine M., 1808
Consists of the papers of other members of the Rush family, including Emily Rush Cuthbert, Anna Maria Rush, and Madison Rush, as well as others.
Arranged alphabetically by author.
Bostwick, G, 1839
Cuthbert, James, 1823
Murray, Daniel, 1841
Murray, S. E., undated
Philpot, John, 1759
Philpot, Thomas, 1760
Rush, Anna Maria, 1848
Rush, Benjamin, 1823
Rush, Cassie, 1885
Bomford, D, undated
Decatur, Susan, undated
Taylor, Julia, undated
Hall, Margaret, 1828
Rush, Madison, 1837-1839
Rush, Jacob, 1788-1800
Rush, Madison, 1833
Rush, Samuel, 1848
Rush, William, 1827
Consists of papers of persons who are not members of the Rush family, including works, correspondence, documents, and printed matter.
This series is arranged into four subseries: Works, Correspondence, Documents, and Printed Documents.
M. Baum, 1843 April 18
Ledyard, H., 1848 June 1
P. S. Duponceau, undated
Jos. Low, 1856 June 15
Hon. A. P. Butler, 1853
Consists of pictures primarily of Benjamin and Richard Rush as well as family pictures.
Arranged by subject of photograph.
Consists of newspaper clippings from 1818-1887.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
Newspaper Clippings, 1818-1887
Consists of memorabilia of the Rush family and miscellaneous material.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
- Scope and Contents
The collection documents the career of Richard Rush (Princeton Class of 1797) as lawyer, statesman, and diplomat, emphasizing diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Great Britain while he was minister to Great Britain (1817-1825) and between the United States and France when he was minister to France (1847-1849), as well as his successful efforts (1836-1838) in securing the Smithsonian bequest, which was used to establish the Smithsonian Institution. Important international issues detailed in diplomatic dispatches and protocols include fisheries, impressment of sailors, maritime law, territorial claims to the Northwest part of America, the Seminole Wars, West Indian trade, slave trade, and free navigation of the St. Lawrence River. Various writings of Rush, his personal correspondence, a code used for confidential diplomatic correspondence, passports, diplomas, certificates, maps/charts,and other documents are also included.
Correspondents in the collection include John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, Nicholas Biddle, James Buchanan, George Canning, Sir Stratford Canning, Robert Stewart Castlereagh, James Fenimore Cooper, George Mifflin Dallas, Albert Gallatin, Washington Irving, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis of Lafayette, Dolley and James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Samuel Morse, John Trumbull, Daniel Webster, and Noah Webster. There is also correspondence to Rush's father, Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813, Princeton Class of 1760); to his son, Benjamin Rush (1811-1877, Princeton Class of 1829); and to other members of the Rush family; and works and correspondence of other persons not members of the Rush family.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Rush
Richard Rush (August 29, 1780-July 30, 1859), lawyer, diplomat, and statesman, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second son and third child of the celebrated physician, Benjamin Rush, and Julia (Stockton) Rush. The boy grew up in a cultivated household and at the age of fourteen was ready for entrance into the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), from which his father and his maternal grandfather had graduated. In college he was the youngest member of his class, and, while not a distinguished student, showed great interest and ability in debating. After finishing his course he studied law in the office of William Lewis, a well-known legal luminary of Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in December 1800. His reputation as a speaker began to be established when in 1807 he made an eloquent speech on the sinking of the Chesapeake at the public meeting in the State House yard in Philadelphia. In 1808 he defended William Duane, the editor of the Aurora, against the charge of libel for an attack upon Governor Thomas McKean of Pennsylvania, and thus made his first important political contacts. He refused, however, to be a candidate for Congress at this time. In January 1811, he was appointed attorney-general of Pennsylvania, the beginning of nearly twenty years of uninterrupted office-holding. An ardent Republican, he warmly opposed the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States, and in November, having attracted the favorable attention of President Madison, to whom he long remained devoted, he became comptroller of the treasury. On July 4, 1812, the administration put him forward to defend the war with Great Britain in an address at Washington. Rush's temperament, in general, was not belligerent, and the cool and objective character of his mind was ill-suited to whipping up the war-spirit. The speech is almost apologetic in tone, far too argumentative to be a great war speech, but it seemed to be well received, and encouraged him to more political pronouncements, which helped to make him better known. In February 1814, he was offered the choice of the offices of secretary of the treasury, or of attorney-general, and chose the latter. In this post he was charged with the duty of editing the Laws of the United States from 1789 to 1815 (5 vols., 1815), which he performed in authoritative fashion. On the inauguration of Monroe, Rush was made secretary of state, pending the return of John Quincy Adams from Europe to assume that office. In this capacity, he negotiated the famous Rush-Bagot convention (April 28, 1817), establishing a limitation of naval armaments on the Great Lakes, one of the earliest treaties of this kind in the history of the United States. On October 31, 1817, he was appointed minister to Great Britain. Rush was undoubtedly amongst the most efficient and best liked of American ministers to the Court of St. James. A man of high breeding, emphatically a gentleman, he moved with ease in the British society of the period, and his genuine regard for the British people, coupled with wide intellectual interests and a tact that was almost unfailing, gave him a wide measure of success. He was confronted with a great variety of difficult problems at the very outset, a number of important disputes with Great Britain left over by the War of 1812 not having yet been liquidated. These included the fisheries question, the matter of compensation for the slaves carried off by the British in the war, and the troublesome problem of the northwest boundary. The convention of October 20, 1818, did not really settle all of these, only the question of the slaves being put in the way of a final solution. But Rush negotiated a treaty of joint occupation of Oregon which served as a basis of understanding for nearly thirty years, and he secured important concessions on the fisheries problem. In 1819 he dealt with great wisdom with the issue raised by Andrew Jackson's recent invasion of Florida, and the execution of two British subjects, Ambrister and Arbuthnot. British public opinion was exceedingly inflamed, and Lord Castlereagh, the foreign secretary, afterwards told the minister that war might have been brought about if he had but lifted a finger ( Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London, 1845, p. 152). In his conversations with Castlereagh, Rush set forward the American point of view with remarkable candor, and yet without offense. His description of his interview with Castlereagh on this occasion may be regarded as a model of diplomatic manners. Rush played an important role in diplomatic negotiations which led up to the enunciation of the Monroe Doctrine. In the summer of 1823, French troops had invaded Spain, and George Canning, the British foreign secretary, had received certain intimations from Sir Charles Stuart, the British minister in Paris, with regard to a projected congress on the affairs of South America. Suspecting that such a congress might pave way for the re-conquest of the Spanish colonies, Canning asked if it might not be possible for Rush to join him in a joint prohibition of such action. Rush had, of course, no instructions. After carefully pondering the matter, he decided that he could not accept the proposal, barring British recognition of the independence of the colonies. When Canning stated his inability to act on this basis, Rush, despite new and pressing overtures from Canning, refused to commit himself. The dispatches which he wrote in August and September 1823 were an important factor in persuading James Monroe and John Quincy Adams to take the strong stand which they assumed in the memorable message of December 2. The message was not well received in England. In particular, that part of it (directed against Russia in the northwest, and not concerned with the Spanish colonies) which forbade new colonization by European powers in the American hemisphere, was most unacceptable to Canning. Rush had to do what he could to defend it, and, acting under instructions, he brought it forward in the new discussions on the northwest question which took place in 1824. He did not, however, succeed in persuading the British commissioners to acquiesce in it. In the course of his long stay in England, Rush examined many different aspects of British institutions. He made a special study of the British navy, and it was his desire, when John Quincy Adams became president in 1825, that he might become secretary of the navy in the new administration. At Adams' insistence however, he accepted the office of secretary of the treasury, and discharged the duties of this post with extraordinary fidelity, never having been absent from office a single day in the course of four years, except for one week's illness. In this period of his life he was a protectionist, though of a rather mild type. He was no doubt partly influenced by the opinion of his state, and also apparently by the infant industry argument. He desired, however, to institute a warehouse and drawback system, not unlike that which existed in Great Britain. He played no prominent part in connection with the tariff of abominations in 1828, but does not seem to have been hostile to that measure. In 1828 he accepted a place on the ticket with John Quincy Adams, as a candidate for vice-president, but went down to a crushing defeat with the rise of Jacksonian Democracy. At this period came one of Rush's rare lapses from the urbanity which was characteristic of him. On his appointment to the Treasury, he had been the object of a slashing attack by John Randolph, who stigmatized his appointment as the worst since Caligula had made his horse a consul (Powhatan Bouldin, Home Reminiscences of John Randolph, of Roanoke, 1878, p. 317). Rush was stung by this, and other attacks, into publishing under the pen name of Julius an attack upon Randolph, splenetic in the extreme. He declared his willingness to avow his authorship, and accept a challenge to a duel, if Randolph cared to take the pains to look into the matter (Julius, John Randolph, Abroad and at Home, 1828, p. 13). For some years after 1828 Rush was in private life. In 1829 he was sent abroad by the towns of Georgetown and Alexandria and the city of Washington to negotiate a loan of one and a half million dollars for the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Received with considerable coolness in Great Britain, despite his many personal friendships there, he finally succeeded in getting very favorable terms from the Dutch bank of the Cromelines. His efforts were not as gratefully received as he thought they should have been by those who sent him. In the Anti-Masonic agitation Rush took a prominent part, and he was the first choice of the new political group for the presidency. He declined to run, however. The struggle over the Bank in 1832 brought him back into the Democratic party. He sympathized strongly with President Jackson on this issue. In 1835, together with General Benjamin Chew Howard of Baltimore, he was commissioned to settle a boundary dispute between the states of Ohio and Michigan, which threatened to result in an appeal to force. He succeeded in preventing an armed clash, though not in settling the question. In the summer of 1836 he sailed for England to secure the Smithson bequest to the United States. James Smithson, an Englishman, had died without issue, and had left the whole of his estate, on the death of a nephew, to the United States. The estate had become tied up in the chancery court, however, and it required much time and patience to liquidate the matter. Rush conducted his mission with efficiency and patience, and made use of his stay in Great Britain to resume many old connections, and to make new ones ( Occasional Productions, Political, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous, 1869, pp. 219-57). He was also extremely successful in disposing on very favorable terms of the British securities which composed the Smithson estate, and, in August 1838, brought back to this country in English gold coin the sum of upwards of £104,000, which was used to establish the Smithsonian Institution. He always retained a great interest in this establishment, of which he was elected a regent, a post which he held to his death (Cyrus Alter, "The Relation of Richard Rush to the Smithsonian Institution" in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. LII, 1910, pp. 235-51). The next public service to which this interesting man was called (March 3, 1847) was that of minister to France, in the administration of President Polk. From 1838 to 1847 he had lived quietly on his estate outside of Philadelphia, but though now sixty-seven years old, he cheerfully accepted political office once more. He arrived in France in the closing days of the July monarchy, and was a witness to the stirring events of the February revolution, which he described with much skill ( Occasional Productions, pp. 355-82). After a brief period of reflection, he decided to recognize the republic then set up, without waiting for instructions from Washington, and despite the reserve of all the other members of the diplomatic corps. He followed with obvious mistrust the course of the red republican revolt of July, but seems to have witnessed without extravagant regret the election of Louis Napoleon as president in December 1848. He was recalled with the entry of the Whigs into power in 1849. This was Rush's last political office. He lived for ten years more, and still entertained an interest in public affairs. He approved the compromise measures of 1850, but was, in general, sympathetic with the attitude of the Democratic party towards slavery. He much feared the dissolution of the Union, censured the extravagance of the anti-slavery agitation, and voted for Buchanan in 1856. He died in Philadelphia on July 30, 1859. He had married Catherine E. Murray on August 29, 1809; of their ten children, three sons and two daughters survived him. Of the men of the second rank who played a role in politics in the Middle Period, Richard Rush is decidedly one of the most attractive. He no doubt betrays a certain conventionality of mind, in the general character of his political thought, but he was by no means unwilling to accept personal responsibility, or to act on his own initiative when the occasion required. He had singularly few enemies; indeed, outside of his feud with the acid Randolph, and one youthful political altercation in Pennsylvania, his life was remarkably free from personal controversy. Laborious to a degree, of judicious mind, of wide intellectual interests, and of engaging manners, he played worthily every role to which he was called. A certain fastidiousness may have had something to do with the limited character of his political success, as compared with that of other men decidedly his inferiors in capacity. In appearance he was distinctly impressive. He had remarkable eyes, a broad and high forehead, and an air of scholarship that was decidedly attractive. His writings are not literary masterpieces, but they are usually interesting, and reveal a keen observer of men and things. The most important are his Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London, the first edition of which (1833) covered only two years, a second edition (1845) comprising the rest of his mission; and Occasional Productions, Political, Diplomatic and Miscellaneous, published by his executors in 1860. 1780 Born in Philadelphia, August 29 1797 Graduated from Princeton University 1800 Admitted to Pennsylvania bar 1809 Married Catherine Eliza Murray 1811 Appointed Attorney General of Pennsylvania 1811 Comptroller of the United States Treasury 1814-1817 Unites States Attorney General 1817 United States Secretary of State 1817-1824 United States Minister to Great Britain 1825-1828 United States Secretary of Treasury 1847-1849 United States Minister to France 1859 Died in Philadelphia, July 30 Biography of Benjamin Rush, 1746-1813 Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born near Philadelphia in 1746. He graduated from the College of New Jersey at the age of fifteen and continued his studies in medicine at the Univerity of Edinburgh. Benjamin Rush started practicing medicine in Philadelphia and, in 1769, became professor of chemistry at the College of Philadelphia. He became a surgeon in the "Pennsylvania Navy" and surgeon-general in 1777. Benjamin Rush was a member of the convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1787. He was a founder of Dickinson College, treasurer of the United States Mint, and, until the time of his death in 1813, Rush continued teaching, rendering invaluable service during the yellow fever epidemic of 1795. Biography of Benjamin Rush, 1811-1877 Benjamin Rush, grandson of Benjamin and son of Richard Rush, was born in Philadelphia in 1811. He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1829 and was admitted to the bar in 1833. In 1837 Benjamin Rush became Secretary of the United States Legation in London, and was Chargé d'Affaires there for a short time. Rush was the author of "An Appeal for the Union" (1861), and "Letters on the Rebellion" (1862). He died in Paris on June 30, 1877.
- Acquisition:
The Rush Family Papers were presented to the Princeton University Library in 1963 by Alexander Rush (Princeton Class of 1933), Benjamin Rush, and R. Stockton Rush (Princeton Class of 1927).
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No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 1970. Finding aid written in 1970.
During 2022, restrictions on Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) letters were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-61
- Bibliography
The following sources were consulted during preparation of biographical note: Dictionary of American Biography, Author's Edition, Volume XVI, 1937, pp. 231-234, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. In addition to the works mentioned in the biographical note on Richard Rush, see an excellent account of Rush's career down to 1840, in the U.S. Mag. and Democratic Rev., Apr. 1840, pp. 301-25; C. K. Webster, The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh, 1815-1822 (1925); Dexter Perkins, The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1826 (1927); W. C. Ford, "John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine," in Am. Hist. Rev., July 1902; J. M. Callahan, "Agreement of 1817. Reduction of Naval Forces upon the Great Lakes," in Ann. Report of the Am. Hist. Asso. for the Year 1895 (1896); Beckles Wilson, America's Ambassadors to England, 1785-1928 (1928), and America's Ambassadors to France, 1777-1927 (1928); A Memorial of Dr. Benjamin Rush...Written by Himself (1905); Am. State Papers. Foreign Relations, vols. IV, V (1834, 1858); obituaries in Daily National Intelligencer (Washington), Public Ledger (Philadelphia), August 2, 1859; Trescott Papers, Lib. of Congress.; his diplomatic dispatches in the State Department. References to Dr. Benjamin Rush may be found in The Princeton University Library Chronicle in Volumes V: 36-37; VI: 34; VII: 17-18, 26; VIII: 61; IX: 1-12; and XIII: 178; to Richard Rush in Volumes XVII: 218; and XIX: 177; and to certain letters exchanged between members of the Rush Family in Volume XXII: 99-101.
- Subject Terms:
- Cipher and telegraphic codes -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- 19th century
Diplomatic and consular service -- United States -- 19th century
Diplomats -- United States -- Clothing -- 19th century
Diplomats. -- 19th century
Fathers and sons -- United States -- 19th century
Fisheries -- Newfoundland. -- 19th century
Impressment. -- 19th century
Maritime law. -- 19th century
Seminole War, 1st -- 1817-1818.
Slave trade -- United States -- 19th century - Genre Terms:
- Codes. -- 19th century
Diplomatic documents -- 19th century.
Passports. -- 19th century - Names:
- College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.). Class of 1829.
Smithsonian Institution
Rush, Benjamin (1811-1877) - Places:
- France -- Foreign relations -- United States -- 19th century
Great Britain -- Commerce -- West Indies. -- 19th century
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States -- 19th century
Northwest coast of North America. -- 19th century
Saint Lawrence River -- Navigation -- Laws and legislation. -- 19th century
United States -- Commerce -- West Indies. -- 19th century
United States -- Foreign relations -- France. -- 19th century
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. -- 19th century