RC (PWacD: Feinstone Collection, on deposit PPAmP); addressed: “John Breckenridge esq. Kentuckey by mr Monroe”; endorsed by Breckinridge. PrC (MHi); endorsed by TJ in ink on verso.

John Monroe, a resident of Staunton and member of the republican committee for Augusta County, Virginia, hoped for an appointment as U.S. attorney for Kentucky. Failing to attain that office, he put off his intended relocation and returned to Staunton (CVSP description begins William P. Palmer and others, eds., Calendar of Virginia State Papers … Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, Richmond, 1875–93, 11 vols. description ends , 9:83; Marshall, Papers, description begins Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Charles F. Hobson, and others, eds., The Papers of John Marshall, Chapel Hill, 1974–2006, 12 vols. description ends 4:217; Preston, Catalogue, description begins Daniel Preston, A Comprehensive Catalogue of the Correspondence and Papers of James Monroe, Westport, Conn., 2001, 2 vols. description ends 1:73; John Monroe to TJ, 30 Apr. 1801). A letter from James Monroe to TJ, written 3 July and received the same day, is recorded in SJL but has not been found. Also missing, but recorded in SJL, is a letter from TJ to Samuel Brown of 4 July “by mr John Monroe.”