1From James Madison to Charles Thomson, 22 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
Having just recd. the 4th. & last Volume of your Translation of the Septuagint, I beg leave to make my acknowledgments complete for the valuable mark of your friendship afforded by such a present. I have not been able to look much into the text of the translation, much less to compare it with the original; but I know too well your erudition & accuracy, not to rely more on these, than I should...
2Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, 9 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
An acquaintance of 52. years, for I think ours dates from 1764. calls for an interchange of notice now & then that we remain in existence, the monuments of another age, and examples of a friendship unaffected by the jarring elements, by which we have been surrounded, of revolutions, of government, of party & of opinion. I am reminded of this duty by the receipt, thro’ our friend D r Patterson...
3Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 9 of January last which did not reach me till the latter end of April was to me indeed a cordial. It recalled to mind the trying Scenes through which we passed with undessembled confidence, but in a particular manner rejoiced me as it informed me of the firm state of your health and the full enjoyment you have of your faculties both of body and mind and more especially of...
4Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, [by 7 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of January last when I was under a paralytic stroke but not Sensible of it. I felt no acute pain, and my Sight was as usual. I could read without spectacles but could not comprehend what I read, nor its connextion with what preceded or followed. I read your letter and was pleased. I made sundry attempts to answer it but in vain, and what at last I sent as an answer , I...
5Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, 29 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I learnt from your last letter , with much affliction, the severe and singular attack your health has lately sustained; but it’s equally singular and sudden restoration confirms my confidence in the strength of your constitution of body and mind, and my conclusion that neither has recieved hurt, and that you are still ours for a long time to come. we have both much to be thankful for in the...