James Madison Papers

To James Madison from David Price (Abstract), 12 May 1805

§ From David Price1

12 May 1805, Surry Court House, Virginia. “You will now Doubt be some What Surpris’d, to receive a Note from me with whome you have knou Acquaintance.

“But from your General Character I am most sincerely your friend and Determind to aid you with All my powers in thi<s> Quarter. Have Taken the Liberty to Inclose you a letter for your purushal. Believeing as I do, that All Men should be Informd as Near as posible of there Enemies.”

Adds in a postscript: “I should be Happy in a personal Acquaintance but the distance at this time will not admit of It. I have the pleasure to be acquainted with All the Officers in the Post office Department—please say if this comes to hand.”

RC (DLC). 1 p.; docketed by JM. Enclosure not found.

1. David Price was the postmaster at Surry Court House (ASP, Miscellanous, 2:386).

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    To James Madison from David Price (Abstract), 12 May 1805
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    Price, David
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    Madison, James
    Date
    12 May 1805

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    “To James Madison from David Price (Abstract), 12 May 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-09-02-0391. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 9, 1 February 1805–30 June 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, p. 343.]