Correspondence of JAMES K. POLK
At a recent meeting of the Commissioners of Wilmington, we were appointed a Committee to tender to you the hospitalities of our Town, and to solicit your sojourn among us on your way homewards, as long as you may be able to linger here. We assure you that it affords us pleasure to discharge the duty which as the Organ of the people of Wilmington, has been devolved upon us, and we hope that it will in no way conflict with your convenience, to afford our citizens generally, the gratification of your presence.
ALS. DLC–JKP. From Polk’s AE: received February 22, 1849; answered February 24, 1849. Published in Wilmington Dispatch, September 4, 1909; Wilmington Morning Star, September 5, 1909; and ULNCP–Ju, p. 264.