To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Reply, 16 January 1804
From Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Reply
Monday [16 Jan. 1804]
Dear Sir
Mr Nourse waits for official information of the day on which possession of New Orleans was obtained for the purpose of filling the blanks left in the certificates of the date from which they are to bear interest. Will you have the goodness to send him a memorandum to that effect by the bearer, as I have no evidence of the fact but a Natchez news paper—
Respectfully Your obedt. Servt.
Albert Gallatin
[Reply by TJ:]
the province was delivered on the 20th. of December
Th:J.
RC (DNA: RG 56, PFLP); partially dated; addressed: “The President of the United States”; after adding the reply, TJ altered the address to “Mr. Nourse.”