1To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Dowse, 4 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Herewith will be deliver’d to you a Table Sett of China contain’d in Two Boxes, which I had made for you at Canton, agreeably to your Excellency’s desire, when I had the pleasure to see you at the Isle of Wight in the year 89. It is so long ago, that possibly you may have supplied yourself already, or the China may not be executed to your liking, in either case, I beg you would not think it...