1From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Pierre Blanchard, 15 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
At the date of your letter of Oct. 16. I was in Virginia. It was sent to that country after me, while I was on my return to this, and came back to me at German town Nov. 9. and it was not till three weeks afterwards that we removed to this place. As you expressed in the letter an impatience to leave Philadelphia on account of the danger of the infectious fever, I took for granted that you had...