1Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the 25 h with my family and as M r Perry will not give up the house yet I am under the necessity of boarding them at M r Laport s untill I can get possession, it is attended with considr considerable inconvenience and expence— I this evening received your letter of the 17 th with the enclosures—
2From James Madison to Bushrod Washington, 28 August 1819 (Madison Papers)
In looking over my papers with a view to a better arrangement of them, I find that in the correspondence with General Washington copies of much of it, must have been lost, or were not retained. I flatter myself that I do not take too great a liberty in requesting that I may be enabled to ascertain & fill up the chasm from the originals, understood to be in your hands as far as they were...