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To James Madison from Ralph Randolph Wormeley, 15 February 1816

From Ralph Randolph Wormeley

Thursday Morg 15th Feby 1816.

Captain Wormeley presents his respectful Compliments to Mr. Madison, will do himself the honour to wait on him at Dinner on Saturday next.1

RC (CSmH).

1. Son of Virginia Loyalist James Wormeley and nephew of Edmund Randolph, Ralph Randolph Wormeley (1785–1852) entered the Royal Navy in 1799, where he served throughout the Napoleonic Wars. He returned to the United States between 1816 and 1818 in an unsuccessful attempt to resolve disputes relating to the family estate in Virginia. Once again in England, he attained the rank of rear admiral, then resettled in the United States in 1848 (Katharine Prescott Wormeley et al., Recollections of Ralph Randolph Wormeley [New York, 1879], 13, 15, 23, 44, 47, 49, 87, 103–4).

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    To James Madison from Ralph Randolph Wormeley, 15 February 1816
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    15 February 1816

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    “To James Madison from Ralph Randolph Wormeley, 15 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0247. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 230.]