RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Harrison, Robert M.”). Undated; written on the verso of Robert Monroe Harrison to Monroe, 6 Jan. 1816 (ibid.; 3 pp.); in a clerk’s hand, docketed by Monroe. Harrison was seeking the appointment of consul at St. Thomas on the grounds that he could better prevent shipmasters from abandoning their crews on the island. JM nominated Harrison to the post on 13 Feb. 1816, and the Senate confirmed him on 26 Feb. 1816 (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:29, 31).