To James Madison from Richard Rush, 13 July 1814
From Richard Rush
Washington July 13. 1814
Sir
The enclosed letter1 came under cover to me by this day’s mail, with a request that I would deliver it into your hands.
Having been informed of what it relates to, I feel very reluctant at being thus the instrument of obtruding upon your notice a subject of merely local concern at a time when I so well know that your mind is anxiously occupied upon matters of so much more deep and general interest.
As, however, I have been selected as the medium of conveying it to you it is only left to me to comply. With the highest respect I remain &c &c &c
Richard Rush.
RC (PHi: Richard Rush Papers). Docketed by JM.
1. JM placed an asterisk before this word and wrote in the lower margin: “*from Jno. Binns July 11. 1814.”