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To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, with Jefferson’s Note, 23 March 1804

From J. P. G. Muhlenberg,
with Jefferson’s Note

Philadelphia March 23d. 1804.

Sir

I have the Honor to inform the President of the United States, that I have this day Shipp’d, (subject to His orders); for Alexandria, on Board the Sloop Unity Captn. Hand, Six Boxes, forwarded to me by Wm. Lee, Esqr. of Bordeaux, said to contain almonds, prunes, & preserved fruit—Likewise a small Box, reciev’d from New Orleans, without any directions, Contents unknown, but said to contain samples of different kinds—

The Duties on the Almonds &c amount $8.91
Freight paid Gurney & Smith 14.   
Porterage &c.    .66
$.23.57

I have the Honor to be with Perfect Respect Sir Your Obedt servt

P Muhlenberg

[Note in TJ’s hand:]

there are 7. packages, of which 4. are for Th:J. and 3. for mr Madison: consequently this bill, and that of Capt Hand will be to be divided between mr Madison & myself in this proportion

Th:J.

RC (MHi); at foot of text: “The President of the U. States”; endorsed by TJ as received 26 Mch. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosed in TJ to John Barnes, 27 Mch.

William lee reported shipping foodstuffs intended for TJ and Madison the previous December. A letter of 30 Dec. from Lee to Muhlenberg, possibly enclosed here, alerted the collector to three boxes intended for Madison and three for TJ and requested that Muhlenberg “do me the favor to send them by some safe conveyance.” The box from New Orleans may have contained sugar sent by Hore Browse Trist (Lee to Muhlenberg, 30 Dec., in MHi; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962- , 39 vols.; Sec. of State Ser., 1986- , 11 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984- , 8 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009- , 3 vols. description ends , 6:193; Vol. 42:212, 589).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, with Jefferson’s Note, 23 March 1804
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    Muhlenberg, J. P. G.
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    23 March 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, with Jefferson’s Note, 23 March 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0070. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 76–77.]

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