1To James Madison from James Thomson Callender, 28 May 1796 (Madison Papers)
Among the many unexpected incidents of my life, it is one of the most singular, and partly one of the most painful, that I am now intruding upon your time with a letter. You shall not be detained with any idle parade of words. I shall tell as Shortly as possible what I wish to say. In the third Session of my attendance on Congress, circumstances which I could neither foresee nor prevent made...