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From James Madison to Thomas Newton, 2 June 1806 (Abstract)

To Thomas Newton, 2 June 1806 (Abstract)

§ To Thomas Newton. 2 June 1806, Department of State. “I request you will be pleased to sell twelve of the Barrels of rice consigned to you by the Collector of Charleston, reserving the remaining ten barrels & Six half barrels for further directions.1 It will occur to you that the barrels to be reserved should be selected for their better condition. The rice is of the first quality and no difference in it is known.”

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15). 2 pp.

1For the rice, see Simon Theus to JM, 15 Mar. 1806, PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (12 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends 11:398.

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