From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 11 October 1802 (Abstract)

§ To Albert Gallatin

11 October 1802, Department of State. Encloses a “Copy of a letter, concerning the Ship Windsor, which I received some time ago from Mr. Thornton,1 and must ask the favor of you to cause such further enquiries in the case complained of to be set on foot as you may think will be useful.”

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). 1 p.

1. The enclosure was probably Edward Thornton to JM, 27 Aug. 1802 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 3:523–24). For the case of the Windsor, see The Struggle to Maintain Neutrality, 8 June 1801 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 1:270–71).

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Title: From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 11 October 1802 (Abstract)
Author: Madison, James
Recipient: Gallatin, Albert
Date: 11 October 1802

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Cite as: “From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 11 October 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0013. [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. 16.]

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