Robert Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 29 January 1805
From Robert Smith
[29 Jan. 1805]
The subsistence of the seamen was not inserted in the last statement sent to you because we have provisions enough without any additional appropriation—
Y H S
Rt Smith
RC (DLC); undated; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 29 Jan. and so recorded in SJL with notation “gunboats &c. defence harbours”; also endorsed by TJ: “communication examination of my lre to mr Nicholson on defence of harbours.”