To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 4 November 1803 (Abstract)

§ From Anthony Merry

4 November 1803, Norfolk, Virginia. “Having arrived here this Evening from England I lose no Time in having the Honor to transmit to you inclosed Two Packets with which I was charged by Mr Munroe, the Minister from the United States to His Majesty.1

“Anxious to fulfil the Commands of the King my Master, who has been graciously pleased to appoint me His Minister to the United States of America, I shall proceed from hence with all possible Expedition to Washington City.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, NFL, Great Britain, vol. 3). 2 pp.

1. Merry probably transmitted Monroe’s two letters to JM of 18 Sept. 1803 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (6 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 5:446–48).

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Title: To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 4 November 1803 (Abstract)
Author: Merry, Anthony
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 4 November 1803

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 4 November 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0023. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, p. 17.]

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