1To George Washington from Thomas Hutchins, 8 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s Favour of the 20th of August (accompanied by the Marquis de la Fayette’s Letter, and a specimen of a Vocabulary) I was honoured with on the 23rd of October at my Camp west of Ohio River about ten Miles up a Rivulet called Indian Weeling. My not having earlier made this acknowledgement is to be attributed to my secluded situation in the Wilderness untill the date of this...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Hutchins, 11 February 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 24th of last month I was honored with the 9th instant. I embrace the first opportunity of tendering you my thanks for your friendly communication respecting the error you discovered in my Pamphlet . How to account for so egregious a blunder in calculation, I am really at a loss, as a moments reflection on the subject would have set me right. Should any other mistake appear to...