1To James Madison from William Tudor, Jr., 24 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose a letter from my Mother to Mrs. Madison, requesting her goodwill to advocate with her friends, the petition of Madame de Vaudreuil to the House of Representatives, which is inclosed in a letter to the President, that Mr. Monroe has kindly promised to deliver. This Lady has been deprived by the French revolution of her fortune as well as rank, and now exists upon a...
2To James Madison from William Tudor, Jr., 18 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
To begin with an apology, is an awkward commencement to a letter, yet I cannot execute my intentions, without assuring you I should be fully sensible of its impertinence at another moment, but at the present interesting crisis when the communication between Europe and the United States, is so much interrupted, the observations of an individual though not placed in a situation to view the whole...