1To George Washington from Thomas Bedwell, 27 May 1786 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Bedwell, 27 May 1786. GW wrote Bedwell on 7 June : “Your letter of the 27th ulto ... I have received.”
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Bedwell, 21 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
altho I am conscious that I am guilty of great impropriety in thus taking this liberty of addressing you, yet I have presumed notwithstanding, depending as an apology only on the supposed importance of a discovery which I thought too interesting if successful not to communicate—Having had repeated opportunities in a particular manufactory to observe the effects of a solution of Iron upon the...