From James Madison to Edward Everett, 20 September 1824
To Edward Everett
Montpr. Sepr. 20. 1824
[James Madison] presents1 his respects to Mr. Everett with many thanks for the eloquent and not less instructive Oration2 with which Mr. E. was so good as to favor him.
Fragment of draft (DLC). In JM’s hand and docketed on verso by him.
1. Third-person greeting clipped.
2. Edward Everett, An Oration Pronounced at Cambridge, before the Society of Phi Betta Kappa, August 26, 1824 (Boston, 1824; 16083).