1From George Washington to Charles Thomson, 24 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have contemplated your Note, wherein, after mentioning your having served in quality of Secretary of Congress from the first meeting of that Body in 1774 to the present time, through an eventful period of almost fifteen years, you announce your wish to return to private life: and I have to regret that the period of my coming again into public life, should be exactly that, in which you are...
2Enclosure: Roger Alden to Charles Thomson, 30 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have been induced by desire of Mr Fisher to suspend writing to you until this time respecting some transactions in which he is materially concerned. It is a duty which I owe to you to declare the truth. As I never could practise duplicity to serve myself I never will be guilty of it to oblige another. On the first of this month he asked my permission to be absent 8 or ten days to collect...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, 20 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Madison and myself have been in the constant purpose, as soon as the roads should get a little smooth, to ride out some morning and pay our respects to you: the late rains have disappointed us in that respect. The Philosophical society have appointed a committee, of which you are named, to collect materials for forming the natural history of the Hessian fly, the best means of preventing or...
4From George Washington to Charles Carroll (of Carrollton) and Charles Thomson, 23–31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Western Indians having proposed to us a conference at Sandusky in the ensuing Spring, I am now about to proceed to nominate three Commissioners to meet and treat with them on the subject of Peace. What may be the issue of the conferences is difficult to foresee, but it is extremely essential that, whatever it be, it should carry with it the perfect confidence of our Citizens that every...
5From George Washington to Charles Thomson, 5 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Weeks have passed since I finished reading the first part of your translation of the Septuagent; but having neglected (when I had the pleasure to see you last) to ascertain the medium through which I was to return it, and being unwilling to hazard the production to an uncertain conveyance, I give this letter to the Post Office in hopes of its reaching you, & of my receiving the information...