1Enclosure: Charles Yancey to Edward Stevens, [1–5 October 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed you will receive a list of the Stills with their Contents in our County you will please to excuse any Inaccuracies in the want of form as I have greatly hurried in the Business oweing among other causes to the want of Health and being anxious to make my return by the time you directed having found it a very fatigueing troublesome Business. However I have been happy to find the People...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Stevens, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You recollect that the British destroyed our records during their invasion of our state in the year 1781. Among these were all the letters I had written or received during my administration; that is to say the originals of the latter and copies of the former. These being chiefly interesting to myself, I am endeavoring to recover the most important of them by applications to the individuals...