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From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 9 July 1814

To Tobias Lear

Washington July 9. 1814

Dear Sir

A vacancy existing in the Office of Accountant to the Dept. of War, I have thought it proper to give you an opportunity of saying whether it would be agreeable to you to fill it. Will you be so good as to let me hear from you on the subject with as little delay as possible? Accept my friendly respects

James Madison

RC (owned by Stephen Decatur, Garden City, N.Y., 1961). Cover sheet bears Lear’s note: “Ansd. July 17—offer declined.” He nevertheless accepted the position, took up its duties in August 1814, and held it until his death by suicide in 1816 (Ray Brighton, The Checkered Career of Tobias Lear [Portsmouth, N.H., 1985], 324–29).

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    From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 9 July 1814
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    Madison, James
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    Lear, Tobias
    Date
    9 July 1814

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    “From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 9 July 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0021. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 8, July 1814–18 February 1815 and supplement December 1779–18 April 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 19.]

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