1To George Washington from Timothy Matlack, 25–26 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
This morning I received a letter from James Young Esquire waggon master general of this state and laid it before Council. I am directed by them to send you the following extract of it, which I suppose will need no comment vizt I beg leave to represent to the honourable Council the difficulties I meet with in assisting the army with waggons as I wish to do in their want. On the eighteenth...
2From George Washington to Timothy Matlack, 2 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to inform you, that the situation of Affairs will not permit a Court Martial to proceed on the trial of General Arnold at this Camp. The movements of the Enemy make it indispensibly necessary, that the Army should at least advance towards the North river, with all practicable expedition, and require that the Officers appointed to compose the Court, should be with their several...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Timothy Matlack, 21 April 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society To you as President of the American Philosophical society, I beg leave to enclose an oration delivered last month before that respectable society. The revd. Dr Ewing had long ago been appointed to perform this annual duty; but he being chosen Provost of the University, and that seminary having greatly suffered during the war, his whole time and attention...
4To John Jay from Timothy Matlack, 21 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
The American Philosophical Society for promoting useful knowledge &c has the honor to enroll your name in the list of its Members, of which you will receive official information thro’ another channel; but the Situation of the Society will not admit of your having a Diploma until a new one is framed agreable to the late change of circumstances. The Society applied to the late sitting of Gen l ....
5From John Jay to Timothy Matlack, 17 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
Accept my Thanks for your Fav r of the 21 April, which was deliverd to me the 27 th August. Knowledge is essential to the Duration of Liberty and Pennsylvania is wise in making them both the Objects of public Care. I have read your Oration with great Pleasure. The Subject is a fine one— The Field large and considering the time allotted you ^ you have interspersed it with ^ useful Remarks &...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Matlack, 18 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave through you to return my most grateful thanks to the American Philosophical society for the honour they have been pleased to confer on me by appointing me one of the Counsellors for that learned corporation. The busy scene in which I have the misfortune to be engaged has kept me too long from acknowledging the receipt of your polite letter notifying this honour to me; and I shall...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Matlack, 28 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The knowledge of political characters is at all times of importance to the Chief Magistrate of the Union, and at no time was it more so than at the present moment. In Pennsylvania it is peculiarly so from the extreme Violence of those who have taken a lead among the Federalists; and [in] no part of the state has this violence been so outragious & insulting as in this borough and county. The...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Matlack, 25 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
An opportunity of sending to you, by way of Baltimore, now for the first time this spring, presenting itself, I have forwarded to Mr Burrell D Postmaster there, a small bundle containing the Vine Cuttings which I had the honor of mentioning to you in the fall, the Oldmixon Peach tree and several other kinds of fruit in high esteem here, which I hope will Prove acceptable to you My ground being...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Matlack, 14 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
You have very much gratified me by the collection of choice fruit trees you have been so good as to forward on. it is gone on to Monticello to which place I shall follow it in a few days. thither also I am withdrawing all my views as a place of rest from the labors & contentions of public life which I must turn over to younger hands. sincerely do I pray for a coalition between the two...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Matlack, 19 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your present of Sickel’s pears, most of them in their highest point of perfection, two or three just past it. they exceeded anything I have tasted since I left France, & equalled any pear I had seen there. they renewed my regrets for the loss of the last spring. the bundle of trees you so kindly sent me, were longer coming here than they should have been, but going hence to...
11Caspar Wistar to Thomas Jefferson, 9 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Some of the friends of M r Timothy Matlack who is an applicant for the place of Loan Officer vacant by the death of the late M r M c Clenachan , have requested me to inform you of his application, in the belief that you were acquainted with him & his history, & that you would therefore feel Sensible of the Justice of his Claim upon his Country for Some provision in the advance of life. He...