71From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney, 5 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Ship Favourite, by which these dispatches are sent, having been delayed much longer in this Port than was expected, affords me an opportunity of informing you—that the Spanish Treaty arrived here on the 22d Ulto; that it was laid before the Senate as soon after, as the accompanying Papers could be copied; and that, on the 3d instant, the Ratification of it was advised & consented to by an...
72From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney or William Allen Deas, 5 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
Whether the dispatches enclosed with this note, fall first into the hands of Mr Pinckney, or Mr Deas; it is requested they may be forwarded safely, without running the Gentlemen to whom they are addressed to the expence of Postage. ALS , ScHi . The enclosures evidently included GW’s letters of 20 Feb. to John Sinclair, William Strickland, and the Earl of Buchan, as GW’s letters to Pinckney of...
73From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney, 22 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
(Private) To my letters of the 20th of February and 5th of March, I beg leave to refer you for the disclosure of my sentiments on the subjects then mentioned to you. Very soon afterwards, a long, and animated discussion in the House of Representatives relative to the Treaty of Amity, Commerce & Navigation with Great Britain, took place; and continued—in one shape or another—until the last of...
74From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney, 28 May 1797 (Washington Papers)
I rely more upon your goodness than upon any excuse I can make, for not having given an earlier acknowledgment to the receipt of your obliging letters of the 10th of January & 12 th of Feby. The truth is, they were rather long on their passage; but a more weighty reason than this is, they arrived towards the closing scenes of my public life, when every moment of my time was occupied either in...
75From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 29 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved from you, before you left England, a letter inclosing one from the Prince of Parma . As I learnt soon after that you were shortly to return to America, I concluded to join my acknolegements of it with my congratulations on your arrival; and both have been delayed by a blameable spirit of procrastination for ever suggesting to our indolence that we need not do to-day what may be done...
76From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney, 6 May 1798 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to give you the trouble of the enclosed letter to Mr Horry, in acknowledgment of one I received from him at Baltimore. I do this on the uncertainty of its finding him in Philadelphia; and because, in his letter to me, he did not say whether he should return to Charleston by Land or Water. I am sorry to find by the Gazettes that you have had but indifferent health since your arrival...
77From John Adams to Thomas Pinckney, 27 October 1800 (Adams Papers)
It is was only this morning on Yesterday that I received the Letter you did me the honour to write me, on the Sixteenth of September. For the friendly and respectful Style in which it is written I pray you to accept of my hearty Thanks: and you shall receive in my answer all the Satisfaction in my Power to give you. Of The Letter which is published in my name I have no Copy, nor any very...