To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Storm, 28 March 1804
From Thomas Storm
New York. March 28. 1804.
I have the honor to enclose a Letter for your Excellency, from Messrs. Kuhn Green & Co. of Genoa directed to my care, together with Some articles addressed to your Excellency. Viz 50. ℔ Naples maccaroni, and 50 Wt. Pates de Genes—these articles arrived yesterday at this port, on board the Schooner Aurora Capt Hammond. And I shall do myself the pleasure to take them under my particular care, until I have the honor to hear from your Excellency—to what place, and in what manner I shall forward them—Waiting your Excellencys command,—I have the honor to be very Respectfully,
Yr Excellencys most obt & most humble Servant
Thomas Storm
RC (MHi); at head of text: “His Excellency Thomas Jefferson Esqr President U.S.A”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 Apr. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Kuhn, Green & Co. to TJ, 24 Dec. 1803.
Thomas Storm (ca. 1748-1833) was a New York City merchant and politician who was elected as a Republican to several terms in the state House of Representatives. During the 1802 and 1803 sessions, he served as speaker. In 1807, he ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor as the candidate for the Republican faction supporting Morgan Lewis (New York Greenleaf’s New Daily Advertiser, 19 Apr. 1797, 15 Aug. 1798; New York Minerva, & Mercantile Evening Advertiser, 1 June 1797; New York Daily Advertiser, 14 July 1798; New York American Citizen, 26 Apr. 1800; New-York Gazette and General Advertiser, 10 Apr. 1801; Albany Gazette, 28 Jan. 1802, 27 Jan. 1803; New York Morning Chronicle, 22 Dec. 1806; New York Public Advertiser, 12 June 1807; New York Mercantile Advertiser, 4 Jan. 1814; New York Commercial Advertiser, 5 Aug. 1833).