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From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 December 1819

To Thomas Jefferson

Decr. 6. 1819.

Dear Sir

By the return of the ladies who have favored Mrs. Madison with so agreable a visit, I send back the correspondence with Cooper. It has ended better than I expected.

I learn with the greatest pleasure that your health is so well restored. I hope you will be careful of it. Above all avoid the fatigues of the pen.

I do not say with the Spaniards I kiss your hands, but I say with all my heart, God preserve you muchs. añs.

James Madison

FC (DLC). In Dolley Payne Madison’s hand; marked “(copy).” JM may have retrieved the RC at a later date and had this copy made, which included copying Jefferson’s docket, “recd. Decr. 6.”

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    From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 December 1819
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    Madison, James
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    6 December 1819

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    “From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 December 1819,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-01-02-0511. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1817 – 31 January 1820, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, p. 566.]

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