1To George Washington from Jeremiah Platt, 18 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Among the crowd who are daily offering themselves as candidates for office, I should not presume to add myself was I not urged by a duty to my family and the unfortunate situation that an implicit confidence in the faith of my country has reduced me to, with many of my fellow Citizens! Impelled even by these considerations, it is with extreme reluctance that I prevail on myself to become...
2Jeremiah Platt to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
with out the privilege of a personal acquantance with you and being at the same time sory, to trouble you in your retirement on a subject that is not interesting to you, I hope you will pardon my digression when I inform you that I have not been able to inform myself through any other Channel as Geography does not give any particulaur account or description of the timber in the state of...