To James Madison from Peter Minor, 15 September 1818

From Peter Minor

Ridgeway Sept. 15. 1818.

Dear Sir,

I have recieved your letter of the 7th. Inst.1 with its enclosures, which shall be duly attended to.

I comply with your request, by forwarding herewith half a dozen copies of the rules & regulations of Our Society,2 & the same number of copies of your Address. If a greater number of either would be acceptable, the stock on hand is sufficient to supply them. Of this you can inform me at the next meeting of our Society which will take [place] on the second monday in October. I hope we shall be then favoured with your attendance. Some interesting Memoirs will probably be read. Very respectfully, yr. Friend & Sert

P Minor

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.

1. Letter not found.

2. Rules and Regulations of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle (Richmond, 1818; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 43028). JM’s copy is in the Madison Collection, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.

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Title: To James Madison from Peter Minor, 15 September 1818
Author: Minor, Peter
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 15 September 1818

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Peter Minor, 15 September 1818,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-01-02-0307. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1817 – 31 January 1820, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, pp. 356–357.]

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