Boston 30th July 1778
Sir/
I am Continualy toroubling you with Trifeling matters that Concern mysef only but from your former proofs of Friendship I flatter myself You are anxiously Concernd for future Events respecting my affairs with Congress. today I dine with mr Hancock1 who is sudenly returnd from Congress, on acct of Ill health but says he shall return again in september with his Family. he gives me very flatering hopes with respect to being restablishd. says the Navy Board2 behaves unjust on the Occation especialy to forward the sentence without the Letter3 he says the Letter will have its desird Effect I have not yet obtaind his opinion with respect to prosecuting the matter further, doubtless I shall hear more tomorrow. this is my first Interview. Except in the street I shall endavour to Cultivate his friendship the success of which I will Inform You of I am Sir [&c.]
Thos. Thompson
L, Private Collection, Capt. J. G. M. Stone, Annapolis, Md., 1959. Addressed on cover: “To/Genl. Wm. Whipple Esqr/Portsmouth." Docketed: “Capt Thompson/received augt 2/answered augt 3."
1. John Hancock, Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress.
2. Continental Navy Board of the Eastern Department.
3. Thompson refers here to the sentence of his court-martial and a letter of recommendation in his favor from the Continental Navy Board of the Eastern Department to the Continental Congress. See Captain Thomas Thompson to William Whipple, 8 July, note 3, above.