11From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 14 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter I received from you at Paris, you desired me to drop you a line from the port of my embarcation. The present is merely in compliance with that wish: for having been already 19. days from Paris, detained by contrary winds, I have no news but what is given under that name in the English papers. You know how much of these I believe. So far I collect from them that the king, queen, and...
12From Thomas Jefferson to James Rumsey, 14 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of the 4th. instant and will pay attention to what you say on the subject of the Barker’s mill your friends beyond the water are about to erect. I am sincerely sorry not to have known the result of your experiment for steam navigation before my departure. Tho I have already been detained here and at Havre 16. days by contrary winds I mu[ch] hope that detention will...
13From 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...