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To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 7 December 1801 (Abstract)

§ From John M. Forbes

7 December 1801, New York. Informs JM that Dobell, in a 3 Oct. circular letter to his mercantile friends, announced his acceptance of the consular post at Le Havre. This limits Forbes’s hopes for appointment to Lisbon, Càdiz, or Hamburg.

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Hamburg, vol. 1). 1 p.

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    To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 7 December 1801 (Abstract)
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    Forbes, John M.
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    Madison, James
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    7 December 1801

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    “To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 7 December 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0440. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 296.]

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