1[October 1783] (Adams Papers)
...those on the other Side of the Channell and but a Continuation of the same Soil. From this Mountain, We saw the whole Channel, the whole Town and harbour of Dover. The Harbour is but a Basin and the Town, but a little Village. We saw three small Vessells on the Stocks, building or repairing, and fifteen or twenty small Craft, Fishing Sloops and schooners chiefly in the harbour. It has not...
2Oct. 24. Friday. (Adams Papers)
...those on the other Side of the Channell and but a Continuation of the same Soil. From this Mountain, We saw the whole Channel, the whole Town and harbour of Dover. The Harbour is but a Basin and the Town, but a little Village. We saw three small Vessells on the Stocks, building or repairing, and fifteen or twenty small Craft, Fishing Sloops and schooners chiefly in the harbour. It has not...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 1[–2] December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
would have been eligible to observe the launch from a central enclosure at the basin of the Tuileries garden, which was reserved for royals, ministers, academicians, and subscribers. Ticket holders flooded the park, and all others were kept outside the garden by a heavy security force: Bachaumont,
4To Benjamin Franklin from William Withering, [before 17 April 1784] (Franklin Papers)
...of animal food, using salt freely, and every vegetable except those usually eaten without boiling. All the onion tribe are particularly recommended: ripe fruits are not included in the exception. Supper, a basin of gruel, well impregnated with onions. Fruit will be best eaten an hour or two before dinner. Strawberries, two or three pints a day through the season, if the bowels will bear them...
5[To Thomas Jefferson from James Swan, 5 October 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
...by Swan and Samuel Blackden to supply the City of Paris with flour and wheat from America, in view of the threatened scarcity caused by the great hail storm and by crop shortages in the Mediterranean basin. These proposals, dated 22 Sep. 1788, and correspondence concerning them are in Archives Nationales, Paris, H 1444. TJ’s friend, M. de Corny, in transmitting the proposals to M. Tarbé,...