From James Madison to John Howe, 2 March 1824
To John Howe
Montpr. Mar. 2. 1824
Sir.
I recd. by the mail of last evening your letter of Feb. 22.1 and have dropped a few lines to the President,2 recalling his attention to the subject of my former one.
I return the letter from Mr. Marshal.3 I am very sorry to learn that he has been so little successful in regaining his health; and that a final failure will bequeath to his amiable relict, a situation for herself & infant charge, calling for so much sympathy.
Draft (DLC). John Howe (1783–1864) of Killingly, Connecticut, a graduate of Brown University in 1805, and a lawyer, was collector of customs for Bristol and Warren, Rhode Island, 1841–45 (Historical Catalogue of Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 1764–1894 [Providence, 1895], 50).
1. Letter not found.
3. Herbert Marshall (1790–1826), an 1816 graduate of Brown University, was rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church at Culpeper Court House, Virginia, 1820 (Salem Gazette, 25 Mar. 1828; Historical Catalogue of Brown University, 71; William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia [2 vols.; Philadelphia, 1861], 2:82; Green, Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia [1978 reprint], 1:24).