71To James Madison from John Graham, 10 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to forward to you Dispatches from our Minister at London, as also from our Minister at Paris, all of which were received at this office yesterday. So much of the latter as was in our Cypher, I have decyphered and submitted the whole to the Heads of Departments. You will find in Genl Armstrongs Packet a Letter written in a Cypher to which we have no Key I beleive in the office,...
72To James Madison from John Graham, 23 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
You will find inclosed a Letter from Mr. Short to me, relating to his Servant, and also one from him to you expressing a Wish that it should be left optional with him to direct the Vessel in which he is to sail, to proceed either to Havre or L’Orient as the circumstances under which she may make the Coast of Europe may render the one or the other most convenient. In consequence of these...
73To James Madison from John Graham, 10 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have waited until the last moment in hopes of being able to let you know by this mail who had been selected as the Jury men to try Colo: Burr. As yet all have been objected to; but Mr Barker a young Gentleman from Westmoreland Colo. Lambert of this City or County, Colo. Carrington of this City, and Mr Hugh Mercer of Fredericksburg, almost all the others have declared themselves under a...
74To James Madison from John Graham, 26 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 23d. Inst. today and shall attend to the instructions it gives. Among the Papers inclosed you will find three Letters addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, & sent to you for your Signature. One of them you will observe is written partly with a pencil as we were not certain as to the fund out of which the Money ought to come. These are the...
75From John Graham to Col. Josiah Quincy, 29 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
May I be permitted to enquire whether the Committee of which you are the Chairman wish a Report from this office in reply to your Letter of the 13th. Inst. We had made some Progress in it when the last Information was received from Algiers, which led to a beleif that it might not be wanted. It was in consequence laid aside to give place to some more urgent business; but if you wish it, it will...