William D. Simms to Thomas Jefferson, 8 October 1819
From William D. Simms
Alexandria 8th October 1819
Sir
Mr Appleton United States Consul at Leghorn, has consigned to the late Collector of this Port, a box of wine and two small Bundles of seeds, addressed to you—No opportunity, having occurred of sending them direct to Richmond, I have thought it best, (to avoid any further delay;) to ship them to Norfolk, to the particular care of the Collr there, who I have no doubt, will take the earliest opportunity of forwarding them to your agents in Richmond—
Enclosed is a bill of frieght &c paid—also the amount of duties and expences—
W. D. Simms—
RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Thos Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 16 Oct. 1819 and so recorded (with additional bracketed notation: “box Tuscan wine”) in SJL; with calculation by TJ on verso: “91./.560/.006 .546.” Enclosure not found.
The late collector of this port was Charles Simms. The collector at norfolk was Charles K. Mallory.
Index Entries
- Appleton, Thomas; and wine for TJ search
- Appleton, Thomas; consul at Leghorn search
- Mallory, Charles King; and wine for TJ search
- Mallory, Charles King; as collector at Norfolk search
- seeds; sent to TJ search
- Simms, Charles; as collector at Alexandria search
- Simms, William Douglass; as deputy collector at Alexandria search
- Simms, William Douglass; forwards wine to TJ search
- Simms, William Douglass; letters from search
- Tuscany, Italy; wine from search
- wine; of Tuscany search
- wine; sent to TJ search