Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Kuhn, Green & Co., 24 December 1803

From Kuhn, Green & Co.

Genoa 24th Decr. 1803

Respected Sir,

We were commissioned by our esteemed friend, Stephen Caithalan Junr. Esqr. of Marseilles, to procure for your Excellency 50 ℔s. Naples Maccaroni, and 50 ℔s. Pates de Genes—which gains us the honor to inform you, of their being shipped on board the American Schooner Aurora Capt. Hammond, bound for New York, in the best possible order, and of the very first quality—to the address and care of Thomas Storm Esqr., Father of our T. H. Storm, of that place—who will use every exertion, on their arrival to have them, forwarded with first opportunity to Washington, or where, your Excellency may please direct.—

We shall allways feel highly honor’d by your direct commands for any articles of Italian growth or Manufacture, and as at Genoa, they are to be procured with the greatest facility, and of prime qualities, we beg you will make use of us, when occasions offer.

We also beg leave to assure you of our frequent prayers, for your long continuance, in the high office you now hold and fill with such Wisdom Utility & Honor—

We are with due respect Yr Excellencys Most Obt He Servts

for Kuhn Green & Compy,

T H Storm

RC (DLC); at head of text: “His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Presdt. of the U.S. America”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 Apr. 1804 and so recorded in SJL.

Kuhn, Green & Co., was the partnership formed early in 1803 by three young American merchants: Peter Kuhn, Jr., Hugh Green, and Thomas H. Storm, who in addition to their commercial connection were bound together through marriages to respective siblings. Green ran the firm’s Gibraltar house, while Kuhn and Storm worked mostly in Genoa (New York Mercantile Advertiser, 13 Jan. 1803; New York Commercial Advertiser, 6 Apr. 1803; Vol. 38:641n; Peter Kuhn, Sr., to TJ, 6 Dec.; Thomas Storm to TJ, 12 Nov. 1804).

For TJ’s order from Stephen Cathalan, see Vol. 39:470 and Vol. 40:457.

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