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James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1813

From James Monroe

23–Sepr 1813.

Dear sir

I intended calling on you to day, which I still hope to be able to do in the afternoon. Your letter to Mr Carter is in all respects what it should be. I intend also to write him, & will bring my letter to him to show you.

I think it most adviseable that we should avoid a meeting at Mr Madisons, for the reason that has occured to you. I had intended to set out back to washington, in the commencement of this week, with intention to return here early in octr for Mrs Monroe, but the interruption by the rain & rise of the waters, has been such, as to incline me to delay rather longer here, & take her with me, at once.

I send you a letter recd. by the private mail, & the note which I recd., of the naval victory on Lake Erie

very respectfully & sincerely your friend

Jas Monroe

RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Sept. 1813 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: TJ to William Champe Carter, 23 Sept. 1813.

The enclosed letter received by private mail has not been identified. The note might have been Secretary of the Navy William Jones’s letter to President James Madison of 18 Sept. 1813 confirming Oliver Hazard Perry’s naval victory on lake erie, which was apparently forwarded to Monroe about this time (Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, John C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, 1962– , 31 vols.  Congress. Ser., 17 vols.  Pres. Ser., 6 vols.  Sec. of State Ser., 8 vols description ends , Pres. Ser., 6:639–40, 653–4).

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  • Jones, William (1760–1831); as secretary of the navy search
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  • Lake Erie; O. H. Perry’s naval victory on search
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James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1813
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Monroe, James
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Jefferson, Thomas
Date
23 September 1813

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“James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1813,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-06-02-0412. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 6, 11 March to 27 November 1813, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 524.]

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