1Ralph Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 5 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My Father being absent on a journey to N England , the pleasing office of answering your’s of the 1’st devolves on me— It is reported, on what grounds I know not, that M r James Lyon dares not be seen at his usual place of residence, but a letter directed to him at Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee , where his family resides, by their conveyance would doubtless find him— RC ( DLC ); between...
2To James Madison from Ralph Granger, 17 November 1813 (Madison Papers)
Compliance with a request of my father is my apology for addressing you. He left Washington with a view of ascertaining the feasibility of carrying into execution a project of considerable public utility, to arrange some important private concerns, and to return in a few weeks. In hastening his return to the City, which he would have reached by the 5th of October, he was arrested by a fever at...