1From James Madison to Joseph Gales, [25 June] 1811 (Madison Papers)
J. M. with his thanks to Mr. Gales returns the newspaper sent him—with an anticipated paragraph of the Mercantile Advertiser. RC (owned by Gallery of History, Las Vegas, Nev., 1994). Date supplied from docket. Signed on verso by Thomas Gales, Jr.
2James Madison to Gales & Seaton, 5 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 29th ulto. The task in which you are engaged is a very interesting one, and I should feel much pleasure in aiding your researches for the necessary materials. But my recollections are very barren. I know of no "debates" during the period of Lloyds, but his, which are very defective, and abound in errors; some of them very gross where the speeches were not...