[Le Havre, 8 Aug. 1785. Entry in SJL for 10 Aug. reads: “Received Jas. Gordon’s. Havre. Aug. 8. proposing to carry Dr. F.’s baggage to Portsmouth in N. Hampshire.” Not found.]
“[James Gordon to Thomas Jefferson, 8 August 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-08-02-0283. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 8, 25 February–31 October 1785, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953, p. 359.]