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To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 15 November 1826

From Thomas Cooper

College. Columbia S. Carolina Nov. 15. 1826

Dear sir

I have sent you a copy of my lectures on political economy1 which I have found intelligible to the students here. I have also taken the liberty of sending a copy for Mr Eppes2 of Poplar forest near Lynchburgh which I request you would have the goodness to transmit to him. It is the copy marked * take off the envelope directed to you & there is a direction to him. I beg my kind respects to Mrs Madison and am Dear sir Your obliged friend and humble Servant

Thomas Cooper

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.

1Thomas Cooper, description begins Gayle Cooper, comp., A Checklist of American Imprints for 1830–39 (Metuchen, N.J., 1972–88). description ends Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy (Columbia, S.C., 1826; Shoemaker description begins Richard H. Shoemaker, comp., A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820–1829 (11 vols.; New York, 1964–72). description ends 24218).

2Thomas Jefferson’s grandson, Francis Eppes (1801–81), attended South Carolina College and began residence at Jefferson’s plantation, Poplar Forest, in 1823. He inherited the property when Jefferson died but sold it in 1828 and moved to Leon County, Florida, where he owned a small plantation (George Green Shackelford, ed., Collected Papers to Commemorate Fifty Years of the Monticello Association of the Descendants of Thomas Jefferson [2 vols.; Charlottesville, Va., 1965], 1:167–78).

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