Richard McCall to Thomas Jefferson, 3 December 1822

From Richard McCall

Gibraltar 3d December 1822

Sir

I have the honor to enclose a letter to your address received Yesterday under Cover from Cadiz—

I am with the highest Respects and Consideration Sir Yr: mo: obt: Servt

R: McCall

RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as a letter from “McCall A.” received 8 Feb. 1823 and so recorded in SJL. RC: top half of address cover only (DLC), with Dft of TJ to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 10 Apr. 1823, on verso; bottom half of address cover only (MHi), with Dft of TJ to James Oldham, 11 Apr. 1823, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson late President of the United States of America—Monticello Virga”; stamped “SHIP”; franked; postmarked New York, 31 Jan. Enclosure: Gregorio González Azaola to TJ, 1 Nov. 1822 (RC in DLC), of which only portions of the dateline (trimmed) (“Cadiz 1o Nove 182[2]”) and address cover have been found (both portions reused for Dft of TJ to William J. Coffee, 10 Apr. 1823); addressed (trimmed): “A Mr. Jeff[erson] Ex-presidente [. . .] [Es]tados Unidos de A[merica] residente en Vi[rginia]”; endorsed by McCall as received 2 Dec. 1822; recorded in SJL as a letter of 1 Nov. 1822 received 8 Feb. 1823 from “Huelva.”

Richard McCall (1780–1831), merchant, served as United States consul at Barcelona, 1815–27, and from about 1818 until 1830 was the United States navy agent in the Mediterranean, eventually stationed at Gibraltar. He died in Philadelphia (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 2:626, 628, 3:575 [2, 3 Mar. 1815, 3 Mar. 1827]; Calhoun, Papers description begins Robert L. Meriwether, W. Edwin Hemphill, Clyde N. Wilson, and others, eds., The Papers of John C. Calhoun, 1959–2003, 28 vols. description ends , 3:336; Clay, Papers description begins James F. Hopkins and others, eds., The Papers of Henry Clay, 1959–92, 11 vols. description ends , 6:80, 214; Register of the Commission and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States [Washington, 1820], 30; A Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the 30th of September, 1829 [1830], 145; Philadelphia Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, 8 Sept. 1831; gravestone inscription in Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia).

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Richard McCall to Thomas Jefferson, 3 December 1822
Author: McCall, Richard
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 3 December 1822

Reference

Cite as: “Richard McCall to Thomas Jefferson, 3 December 1822,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-19-02-0154. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 19, 16 September 1822 to 30 June 1823, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. 211–212.]