1To Thomas Jefferson from David Ramsay, 12 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Give me leave to congratulate you on your return to the United States. This should not have been withheld till this late hour had I not been informed that you had not set out for New-York till lately. I have some time since received a letter from you enquiring concerning two French men supposed to be in this country. After many fruitless inquiries I at last got some information from Mr. Petry...