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To James Madison from Henry Clay, 13 May 1826

From Henry Clay

Department of State, 13 May 1826.

Dear Sir,

I received your letter of the 10th. Instant,1 transmitting those of Messrs. D’Espenville2 and Hersant respecting the box of seeds for the use of the Agricultural Society of Virginia. Although I do not myself perceive that I have any right to direct the disposal of it, I shall comply with your suggestion, in requesting Messrs. Mackay and Campbell to forward it to the University of Virginia. With my best respects to Mrs. Madison, I am truly your obedt. servt.

(signed) H. Clay.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 21).

1Letter not found.

2Charles-Louis Glué, comte d’Espinville (d. 1828) was French consul at New York, 1816–28 (P. Louis Lainé, Archives généalogiques et historiques de la noblesse de France […] [11 vols.; Paris, 1828–50], s.v. Glué, art. de Dion, 3:21; Alexandria Gazette, Commercial and Political, 23 July 1816; Dedham, Mass., Village Register and Norfolk County Advertiser, 18 Sept. 1828).

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