1From George Washington to Thomas Thomson, 24 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your favor of the 12th instant, I can assure you, if it shall be found that Doctr Spence and family are in the unhappy situation you suppose, and I can be instrumental by writing to Mr Jefferson or to any of my friends in France in obtaining their release, I should do it with chearfulness and pleasure—An application to the Court of that Nation from a private character would be...
2From George Washington to Thomas Thomson, 18 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed, which I have Just received, is so full on the subject of your enquiry that I shall add nothing thereto —although I am sorry, and feel for the disappointed hopes of your Lady to recover her lost Son, yet I am glad that it is in my power to remove, as soon as possible the painful suspence which the Impositions of Reynalds must have thrown her and the family into. I am &c. LB ,...