1From 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...