To James Madison from Charles S. Fowler, 25 June 1825
From Charles S. Fowler
Allens Lottery & Exchange Office
Washington June 25. 1825.
Sir,
I hold your note in favour of Mr John Payne Todd for $500. which is payable on the 10th of July next. When I gave Mr Todd the Cash for it he said the note would be paid here, which is my wish, but if it would make any differance of moment with you, I could send it to one of the Banks in Fredericksburg Va for payment. Should you wish it sent to Fredericksburg, please inform me. Very Respy.
C. S. Fowler1
RC (DLC). Docketed by JM, with his note: “pd. accordingly.”
1. Charles S. Fowler (1797–1865), originally of Hudson, New York, was a Washington merchant and broker. He was the Washington partner of S. & M. Allen, a New York lottery and brokerage concern, 1821–28, and thereafter continued the brokerage business under the name of Charles S. Fowler & Co. In 1822 he married Mary W. Poor, the daughter of Moses Poor, a Washington auctioneer and commission merchant. Late in life, Fowler ran an import business, specializing in china, glassware, and cutlery (Daniel W. Fowler, A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Capt. William Fowler, of New Haven, Connecticut [Milwaukee, 1870], 28–29; Washington Gazette, 29 Nov. 1821; Henrietta M. Larson, “S. & M. Allen—Lottery, Exchange, and Stock Brokerage,” Journal of Economic and Business History 3 [1930–31]: 439, 441; John Payne Todd to Dolley Madison, 5 Jan. 1837, DMDE; Alexandria Herald, 9 Sept. 1822; Daily National Intelligencer, 3 June 1820; Washington Daily Globe, 9 Mar. 1854).