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From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 25 September 1804

To James Madison

Monticello Sep. 25. 04.

Th:J to mr Madison

I intended to have been with you tomorrow evening, but it is rendered now improbable, partly by the weather, but more by the arrival of M. & Made. Yrujo last night. they are now here, and go back from hence to Washington. if they leave us tomorrow I shall be with you the next day. he has opened his budget which we have smoothed off. it must be the subject of verbal communication to you. affectionate salutations.

RC (DLC: Madison Papers). PoC (DLC). Notation in SJL: “Yrujo.”

I shall be with you: TJ left Monticello for Washington on 27 Sep., spending his first night of travel at Montpelier. He reached the capital on 30 Sep. Travel expenses for the journey totaled $24.56 (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1136-7).

To open one’s budget was to speak one’s mind (OED description begins J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, 1989, 20 vols. description ends ).

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    From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 25 September 1804
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    25 September 1804

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 25 September 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-44-02-0389. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 44, 1 July to 10 November 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 431–432.]

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