Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 29 January 1805

From Robert Smith

[29 Jan. 1805]

The subsistence of the seamen was not inserted in the last statement sent to you because we have provisions enough without any additional appropriation—

Y H S

Rt Smith

RC (DLC); undated; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 29 Jan. and so recorded in SJL with notation “gunboats &c. defence harbours”; also endorsed by TJ: “communication examination of my lre to mr Nicholson on defence of harbours.”

last statement: see Smith to TJ, 7 Dec. 1804.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 29 January 1805
    Author
    Smith, Robert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    29 January 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 29 January 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0431. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 432.]

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