1I. Samuel Blackden to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I was extremely sorry I had not the pleasure of paying you my respects before your departure from Paris, but my business detain’d me here much longer than I expected; it has however given me an opportunity of witnessing another revolution, more extraordinary than even that of France. [You are sensible Sir that bickerings and disputes have arisen and subsisted for several years between the...