1To James Madison from Daniel Brent, 18 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
I shall not trouble you with any of the letters that have been received for you since your departure, as they are generally unimportant, and not one of them requires your own attention. No private or foreign ones have been received. Mr Dallas has furnished the Copy of the proceedings of the District Court of Pennsylvania, in the case of the Magicienne, and I have sent it to the Secretary of...
2To James Madison from Thomas Sumter, Jr., 18 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
I must beg the favor of you to ask the Presidents leave for me to resign the commission he did me the honor to confer upon me. It will, I hope, occasion no inconvenience to release me from an appointment which I find different from what I expected it to be—& you will add, Sir, to my personal obligations to you, by giving all possible dispatch to this request & to the Presidents consent. Be so...
3To James Madison from Griffith Evans, 18 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 May 1802, Philadelphia. “In addition to the Books & papers of the late Board of Commissioners there remains in the office some Articles of furniture the joint property of the two Nations.… I conceive it to be most proper to solicit advice of the manner in which I ought to dispose of them. Probably sending them to Auction & crediting my Accot of disbursements with the proceeds may answer as...