1Charles Pinckney to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
It is a great while since I have written you for which I feel regret & some shame, as I ought to have considered it in some degree my duty to have frequently enquired how you do & to have requested the pleasure to hear from you— it was very seriously my intention at the close of the late session of Congress to have endeavoured to visit both yourself & M r Madison —but the great length of the...
2Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 30 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
An absence of some time from home has occasioned me to be thus late in acknoleging the reciept of your favor of the 6 th and I see in it with pleasure evidences of your continued health & application to business. it is now, I believe, about 20. years since I had the pleasure of seeing you, and we are apt, in such cases, to lose sight of time, and to concieve that our friends remain stationary...
3Charles Pinckney to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Captan Archibald W Hamilton Son of a very respectable gentleman of New York wishing to see & have the honour of your acquaintance I have taken the liberty of giving him this letter to you— He was an officer in the British army & on the declaration of the late war offered his resignation declaring he would not fight against his native country on which he was detained as a prisoner & for trial...