To James Madison from James Monroe, 3 December 1814
From James Monroe
Decr 3. 1814.
Dear Sir
My affairs in Loudoun requiring in an urgent manner my presence, I shall go up to day & return on monday or tuesday next. A passport from the British Commander to take dispatches to Ghent being as I presume necessary, I have arrang’d in the dept. a letter to him for the purpose.1 I know of nothing that will suffer in my short absence. Respectfully your friend
Jas Monroe
RC (DLC: Rives Collection, Madison Papers).
1. Monroe to George Cockburn, 3 Dec. 1814, DNA: RG 59, DL.