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To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1806 (Abstract)

From Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1806 (Abstract)

§ From Thomas Jefferson. 11 April 1806. “As the letter proposed to the Emperor of Russia may lead to something of importance,1 I wish to communicate it to the other gentlemen of the admn. Will you therefore be so good as to correct it severely, and return it to me as you would approve it?”

RC (DLC: Rives Collection, Madison Papers). 1 p.

1. For Jefferson’s 19 Apr. 1806 letter to Alexander I asking him to press for a clear definition of neutral rights on the high seas in any peace treaty ending the war in Europe, see Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson description begins Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (10 vols.; New York, 1892–99). description ends , 8:439–41.

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    To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1806 (Abstract)
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    “To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1806 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0411. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 11, 1 January 1806–31 May 1806, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 474.]

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