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From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1796

To Thomas Jefferson

May 30th, 1796.

Congress will adjourn the day after to-morrow. News as late as April 8 from London; peace likely to take place between France and England; provisions falling much in price, both in F. and G. B. The moneyed distresses reviving in the latter, and great alarms for a terrible shock to the Banking and Mercantile Houses.

Printed copy (Madison, Letters [Cong. ed.] description begins [William C. Rives and Philip R. Fendall, eds.], Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (published by order of Congress; 4 vols.; Philadelphia, 1865). description ends , 2:105). Listed in Jefferson’s Epistolary Record (DLC: Jefferson Papers) as received 23 June.

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    From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1796
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    “From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-16-02-0242. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 16, 27 April 1795 – 27 March 1797, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Thomas A. Mason, and Jeanne K. Sisson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989, p. 367.]

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