1To James Madison from George Mathews, 16 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
The duties attach’d to your important confidential trust as President of the United together with the numerous private applications you have to answer have been the causes why you have not receiv’d any private communications from me on the important & delicate trust repos’d in me as Commissioner of the U. States for East & West Florida. The Commission with which I am trusted is now I flatter...