RC (ViU); with TJ’s note on verso made in two undated sittings, divided by horizontal rule; initial line of note missing due to frayed margin at top of page; endorsed by TJ as received 13 Dec. 1798 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found.

Your favor: TJ to Madison, 17 Nov. 1798. pleasure of seeing you: TJ set out for Philadelphia on 18 Dec. and stayed at Montpelier during the first night of his trip (MB, description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends 2:995; Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962, 27 vols. Sec. of State Ser., 5 vols. description ends , 17:xxvii). Admiral Horatio Nelson’s destruction of the French fleet occurred in the Battle of the Nile on 1 Aug. Nelson captured or destroyed 11 of the 13 French ships anchored at Aboukir Bay, thus isolating and cutting off supplies for Bonaparte’s forces in Egypt (Scott and Rothaus, Historical Dictionary description begins Samuel F. Scott and Barry Rothaus, eds., Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789–1799, Westport, Conn., 1985, 2 vols. description ends , 1:80–1; T. C. W. Blanning, The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787–1802 [London, 1996], 189–200). For Madison’s draught on moylan, see Madison to TJ, 29 Dec. 1798.