1To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 1 April 1773 (Franklin Papers)
Cette machine ne differe presque d’un parasol, que par quelques petits accessoires, qui s’y adaptent aisément en cas d’orage.La partie principale, qui fait le corps du Parasol, comprend
2From Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 28 May–1 June 1773 (Franklin Papers)
The printed extract, which begins with this paragraph, gives more of the sentence but breaks off in the middle of it: “Peut-être pourriez-vous simplifier encore votre instrument, et vous contenter de faire adapter à un parasol ordinaire vos. …” Dubourg here appended the following note:
3To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Pierre Blanchard, [c. April 1782] (Franklin Papers)
...1781. The “vaisseau volant” was at that time shaped like a small boat, four feet long by two feet wide, that could hold two people. Two pairs of ten-foot-long wings would create a parasol 20 feet in diameter; the mechanics of locomotion were not detailed. Blanchard later modified that design, adding an outer layer to the body, the “couverture de carton” that he alludes to in the present...
4To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 7 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
bed, 2 crimson armchairs, 1 commode, 2 servant’s mattresses, 2 whips trimmed in silver, 3 swords (one of them silver), 2 maps, 3 collapsible parasols, 1 double-barreled gun, 2 carpenter’s chalk strings, 1 piece of
5Thomas Jefferson’s Transactions with James Leitch, 12 December 1821–12 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
1 Parasol
6Samuel A. Bumstead’s Description of Thomas Jefferson, [23 August 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
he had no hat on but a lady’s parasol, On 3 June 1822 TJ purchased a parasol from the