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To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 30 May 1796

From James Madison

May 30th, 1796.

Congress will adjourn the day after to-morrow. News as late as April 8 from London; peace likely to take place between France and England; provisions falling much in price, both in F. and G.B. The moneyed distresses reviving in the latter, and great alarms for a terrible shock to the Banking and Mercantile Houses.

MS not found; text reprinted from Madison, Letters, description begins William C. Rives and Philip R. Fendall, eds., Letters and Other Writings of James Madison … Published by Order of Congress, Philadelphia, 1865, 4 vols. description ends ii, 105. The missing RC is recorded in SJL as received 23 June 1796.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 30 May 1796
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    Madison, James
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    30 May 1796

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 30 May 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-29-02-0083. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 29, 1 March 1796 – 31 December 1797, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, p. 119.]

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