From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, [5 October] 1809
To Albert Gallatin
Thursday Morning. [5 October 1809]1
Dr Sir
Mr. Smith has had an official conversation with Mr. Jackson, and is to see him again today at One OC. He is to be with me in the mean time at ½ after 10, when I wish you to join the consultation.
J. M.
RC (NHi: Gallatin Papers). Docketed by Gallatin. For conjectural date, see n. 1.
1. The only Thursday falling between 3 Oct., when British minister Francis James Jackson presented his credentials to JM, and 9 Oct., when conversations with him were summarily ended, was 5 Oct. ( , 5:88; , Foreign Relations, 3:308).