1From 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...