Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1813
From Mathew Carey
Philada June 3. 1813
Sir,
I have taken the liberty to transmit You by mail, & request your acceptance of, a copy of “Sketches of the Naval History of the U. States,” which, due allowance being made for the haste in which it was prepared, will I hope be found not uninteresting.
Respectfully, Your obt hble servt
Mathew Carey
RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “Hon Thomas Jefferson, Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 June 1813 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Thomas Clark, Sketches of the Naval History of the United States from the commencement of the Revolutionary War to the present time (Philadelphia, 1813; for a later ed., see no. 531).
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