1From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Cutting, 17 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
You must be pleased to look on the trouble which the accident of my voyage occasions you like a tempest or whirlwind which heaven in the course of it’s providence has directed over your feilds. Troublesome, but happily transient. In my letter of yesterday I desired you to send the box TI. No. 28. by the Philadelphia vessel to Doctr. Franklin. I am now to beg the favor of you, by the first...