James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Landon Carter, 21 November 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Landon Carter

21 November 1802, Rhodes Tavern. Presents a letter from Colonel Taylor1 and asks for JM’s business hours so he “may avoid intrusion at improper ones.” Thornton came to Washington on the same stage and “will have probably told you my errand to the City is to bring a model of my invention.”2

RC (DLC). 1 p. Dated “Sunday Morning”; date assigned on the basis of a similar letter Carter wrote to Jefferson, 21 Nov. 1802 (DLC: Jefferson Papers).

1. See John Taylor to JM, 15 Nov. 1802.

2. There is no record of a patent being issued to Carter during this period.

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    To James Madison from Landon Carter, 21 November 1802 (Abstract)
    Author
    Carter, Landon
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    21 November 1802

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    “To James Madison from Landon Carter, 21 November 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0137. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 131.]

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