1. Glaswegian Patrick Miller (1731–1815) was a banker and inventor who experimented with paddle wheels and steam power. The enclosure, not found, was Miller’s Elevation, Section, Plan, and Views of a Triple Vessel, Edinburgh, 1787, which proposed a two- or three-hulled ship, propelled by paddle wheels and operated by crew at the ship’s capstans. Miller distributed his publication widely, sending it to foreign governments and public libraries. JA, who noted that Miller was regarded as “a gentleman of character and fortune,” forwarded the “elegant volume of improvements in naval architecture” to John Jay with his letter of 1 May (DNB description begins Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds., The Dictionary of National Biography, New York and London, 1885–1901; repr. Oxford, 1959–1960; 21 vols. plus supplements; rev. edn., www.oxforddnb.com. description ends ; Dipl. Corr., 1783–1789 description begins The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America, from … 1783, to … 1789, [ed. William A. Weaver], repr., Washington, D.C., 1837 [actually 1855]; 3 vols. description ends , 2:745).