1To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 4 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 January 1805, New Orleans. “In consequence of the Death of my private Secretary, and the temporary Absence from the City of one of my former Clerks, I have not yet been enabled to forward a general statement of my public’ expenditures during the temporary Government. But it shall be done in a short time, and I trust you will discover that I have had a due regard for œconomy. “The existence...