1To George Washington from John Carter, 22 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
On a Presumption that this truly distressed State is at length on the Point of joining the Union, and that a new Arrangement of Officers will in Consequence take Place, permit me, with all Deference, to ask of your Excellency a Nomination to the Naval Office for this District. My Object, in the first Instance, was the Collectorship, and I had endeavoured to make some little Interest: But...
2To Thomas Jefferson from John Carter, 24 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the Receipt of a Letter from Mr. Remsen, written by Direction of your Excellency. My grateful Thanks are due for this Mark of Attention, as well as for your Excellency’s favourable Notice of my Name, in a late Letter to my worthy friend Mr. Howell. Agreeably to Order, the Providence Gazette shall with great Pleasure be forwarded by Post, so long as the Publication thereof...