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From James Madison to Nelly Conway Madison, 25 February 1816

To Nelly Conway Madison

Feby 25. 1816

My dear Mother

Sister Rose informs me that you wish a remittance of $400. I inclose a check in favor of Capt. Eddins1 who will save you all trouble by indorsing and negociating it. I presume he will be able to convert it into cash readily on the usual terms.

Dolly is again pretty well. She has been several times latterly & for some continuance, much otherwise, more than once seriously sick. We learn with great pleasure that your health has been but little affected throughout the winter, and hope this will find it remaining good. Yr. affe. son

J. Madison

RC (NHi: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History).

1Abraham (Abram) Eddins (d. ca. 1832) relocated from Madison County to Orange County in Virginia in 1816. The following year he succeeded Gideon Gooch as plantation manager at Montpelier, and JM’s mother later appointed him as an executor of her estate (PJM-RS, description begins David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2009–). description ends 1:51 n. 1).

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