James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 4 September 1801

From John Quincy Adams

Philadelphia 4. Septr: 1801.

Sir.

I have the honour to enclose a letter which I was desired to forward to you from Mr: Bourne at Amsterdam.1

A few days before I sailed from Hamburg, I sent you by duplicates, copies of a letter which I received there from the Swedish Minister at the Court of Berlin and of my answer to it.2 As it contained a proposition from the king of Sweden which may be deemed of some importance to the interests of the United States, I now mention the circumstance, that in case neither of those letters should have arrived, I may send you a triplicate of them. I am very respectfully, Sir, your most humble and obedient Servant.

John Q. Adams.

RC (DNA: RG 59, DD, Prussia, Letters of J. Q. Adams). Docketed by Wagner.

1. Probably Bourne to JM, 10 June 1801 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 1:296–97), docketed by Wagner as received 10 Sept.

2. See Adams to JM, 25 June 1801 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 1:348–49 and n.).

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    To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 4 September 1801
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    Madison, James
    Date
    4 September 1801

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    “To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 4 September 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0123. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 83–84.]

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