From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 12 October 1804
To James Madison
RC (ViU); addressed: “The Secretary of State”; written on verso of an address sheet in John Barnes’s hand: “The President, of the United States.” PoC (DLC). Notation in SJL: “Ewing.”
Nathaniel Ewing had been recommended to Gallatin by John Badollet, the recently appointed register of the land office at Vincennes (Gayle Thornbrough, ed., The Correspondence of John Badollet and Albert Gallatin: 1804-1836 [Indianapolis, 1963], 27, 30, 32-3; Vol. 43:680).