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From James Madison to Horace Holley, 20 February 1827

To Horace Holley

Montpellier. Feby. 20. 1827

J. Madison presents his respects to Mr. Holley, and encloses a few lines as requested,1 to Mr. Gallatin. He has no acquaintance in Paris with whom he could take such a liberty, excepting those to whom Mr. Holley is personally known.

RC (KyLxT: Horace Holley Papers); draft (DLC). RC addressed and franked by JM to Holley at Lexington, Kentucky, “via City of Washington”; docketed by Holley. JM enclosed RC of JM to Albert Gallatin, 20 Feb. 1827. Draft is appended to the draft of JM to Gallatin, 20 Feb. 1827.

1. Holley to JM, 2 Feb. 1827.

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    From James Madison to Horace Holley, 20 February 1827
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    “From James Madison to Horace Holley, 20 February 1827,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-04-02-0285. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 3 March 1826–29 February 1828, ed. Armin Mattes, David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Anne Mandeville Colony, Ellen D. Goldlust, Mary Parke Johnson, Katherine E. Harbury, and Mary K. Wigge. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023, p. 323.]

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