To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Burrall, 8 June 1805
From Charles Burrall
Baltimore June 8th: 1805
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Note of the 6th Inst: The letter it enclosed was for Messrs Keller & Forman; merchants in this City; to whom I delivered it immediately on receipt of the same.—They inform’d me that your former letter was by them received and that they had omitted to answer it.—
I am Sir with great respect your humble servant
Chas: Burrall
RC (MHi); at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 June and so recorded in SJL.
TJ’s Note of the 6th has not been found and is not recorded in SJL. Recorded in SJL but not found are TJ’s letters to local grocers and flour merchants Keller & Forman of 8 May and 6 June and their responses of 10 June received 11 June (Appendix IV). According to TJ’s financial memoranda of 6 June, he drew on the Bank of the United States in Baltimore in favor of Keller & Forman for orders by John Speer from Michael Hope and Hugh Chisholm for $100 each and James Dinsmore for $30 (James Robinson, Baltimore Directory for 1804 [Baltimore, 1804], 13; , 2:1155).