Edwin Stark to Thomas Jefferson, 17 March 1817
From Edwin Stark
Commsys office Norfolk 17th March 1817
Sir
I did myself the pleasure to address you a few days since on the subject of your wine from Charleston
I was then under the impression they were missing but I have this morning had the satisfaction to learn from our Collector that the two boxes in question was put on board of the sloop Antelope Capt Laurence for Richmond on the 22d Feby, to be deliverd to your friends Messrs G & Jefferson to whom a receipt for the same was forwarded
I again assure you it will be highly gratifying to my feelings to act, as your agent or correspondent in this place
Edwin Stark
RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Mar. 1817 and so recorded in SJL.
The collector at Norfolk was Charles K. Mallory.
By some unidentified channel after this date, Alexander Pyke conveyed to TJ his pamphlet, An Oration, delivered on the 17th March, 1817, before the Shamrock Friendly Association of New-York, and a numerous concourse of citizens and strangers assembled to celebrate the anniversary of St. Patrick (New York, 1817; , 13 [no. 826]; TJ’s copy in ViU, with Pyke’s MS inscription [trimmed]: “Respectfully presented to Thomas [Jef]ferson Esq, by The Author”).
Index Entries
- An Oration, delivered on the 17th March, 1817, before the Shamrock Friendly Association of New-York (A. Pyke) search
- Antelope (sloop) search
- Gibson & Jefferson (Richmond firm); and wine acquired by TJ search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
- Laurence, Mr. (sloop captain) search
- Mallory, Charles King; and wine for TJ search
- Mallory, Charles King; as collector at Norfolk search
- Pyke, Alexander; An Oration, delivered on the 17th March, 1817, before the Shamrock Friendly Association of New-York search
- Stark, Edwin; and wine for TJ search
- Stark, Edwin; letters from search
- wine; sent to TJ search