Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 18 February 1805

From Robert Smith

Monday morng—[18 Feb. 1805]

Sir,

The Enclosed Dispatches I received late last Evening—Lieutenant Izard who brought them I will present to you this morning.

Respectfully

Rt Smith

RC (DLC); partially dated; endorsed by TJ as received 18 Feb. from the Navy Department and “Preble’s lre from Tripoli” and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: probably Edward Preble to Smith, 18 Sep. 1804 (printed in ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1832-61, 38 vols. description ends , Naval Affairs, 1:133-8; see TJ to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 20 Feb.).

Ralph Izard was among the officers who served on board the Intrepid during its mission to destroy the frigate Philadelphia. He arrived in Norfolk on 14 Feb., bearing Commodore Edward Preble’s account of the navy’s actions against Tripoli (NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , Register, 28; Baltimore American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 22 Feb.; Smith to TJ, 13 Nov. 1804).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 18 February 1805
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    18 February 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 18 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0545. [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. 542.]

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