1From James Madison to Sarah Bowdoin, 6 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison has received the little volume which Mrs. Bowdoin has had the goodness to send him. The sensibility which he begs leave to express to her, is much quickened, by his high respect for the memory of the distinguished Patriot, to whom the public is indebted for the valuable Legacy. RC ( MHi ). James Bowdoin, U.S. minister to Spain from 1804 to 1808, had died in October 1811. Possibly JM...