To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 8 March 1804
From Albert Gallatin
8 March 1804
Dear Sir
Collectors are not supplied with seals at the public expense—Most of them have none; those of the important sea-ports generally have.
Respectfully your obedt. Servt.
Albert Gallatin
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as a letter of 8 Mch. received from the Treasury Department on 7 Mch. and “seal for Custom H. N.O.” and so recorded in SJL.
seals: in October 1803, Hore Browse Trist consulted with TJ on the design and execution of a seal for the custom house at New Orleans (Vol. 41:554-5).