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To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 10 October 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Robert R. Livingston

10 October 1801, New York. Reports Boston “got off the rocks last night” undamaged and will be ready to sail by Tuesday [13 Oct.]. In postscript, states that accounts from France confirm British capture of Cairo; believes Alexandria will follow. Notes that yellow fever in city has ceased.

RC (DNA: RG 59, DD, France, vol. 8). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner. The Boston finally sailed on 15 Oct. (N.Y. Spectator, 17 Oct. 1801).

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    To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 10 October 1801 (Abstract)
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    Livingston, Robert R.
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    Madison, James
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    10 October 1801

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    “To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 10 October 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0250. [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, p. 169.]

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