11From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 14 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
No vessel offering from any port of France I have been obliged to come over to England for one. This, with already a long detention by contrary winds, and some exaction from the necessity I have been under to take a particular ship, or lose my passage this season, will occasion the amount of my expences to be considerably over the sum of twelve thousand livres which I had named to you as the...
12Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 14 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Enclosed I send you agreable to an Intimation in a former letter the signatures of the president and Cashier of the Banks of North-America and New York; together with a general description of those notes, which will enable you to guard against Impositions and Counterfeits. Where the notes are payable to any particular person and not to bearer, you will take care that there is an indorsement of...
13From George Washington to Lafayette, 14 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
This is the first time I have written to you, my dear Marquis, since I have been in this place—and I have not received a line from you in the same space of time. This has been a long interval of silence between two persons whose habits of correspondence have been so uninterruptedly kept up as ours; but the new and arduous scenes in which we have both been lately engaged will afford a mutual...