I have received your Letter of the 9th. instt. and now enclose a Check on the Branch Bank for 500 dollars payable to your order—With this you will repay the Coachman, his advances; repay to Mary Hellen the 50 dollars borrowed of her, and give the remainder to Antoine, for the purchase of winter fuel and other necessary payments. You and I will settle accounts when I return to Washington, which...
2To James Madison from Byrd C. Willis, 15 September 1826 (Madison Papers)
You did me the favour some time since to address a letter to the secretary of War in behalf of my son George who has been an applicant for a long time for a Cadets Warrant, that letter was forwarded and filed in the Office of Engineers, Genl McComb assured me that it should not be overlookd but at that time there were too many applicants from Va this difficulty is obviated by my removal to...