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To James Madison from William Lee, 21 July 1805 (Abstract)

From William Lee, 21 July 1805 (Abstract)

§ From William Lee. 21 July 1805, Bordeaux. No. 241. “I have the honor to transmit you enclosed a letter I have this moment recd. from the US. agents at Leghorn.”1

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, CD, Bordeaux, vol. 2). RC 1 p. For enclosure, see n. 1.

1. The enclosure (1 p.) is a copy of Degen, Purviance, & Co. to Lee, 1 July 1805, transmitting a copy of John Rodgers’s 8 June 1805 letter to Frederick Degen (1 p.) announcing the peace arranged on 31 May between the United States and Tripoli by Tobias Lear, as well as the release of William Bainbridge and the Philadelphia crew members.

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    To James Madison from William Lee, 21 July 1805 (Abstract)
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    Lee, William
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    Madison, James
    Date
    21 July 1805

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    “To James Madison from William Lee, 21 July 1805 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-10-02-0087. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 10, 1 July 1805–31 December 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014, p. 98.]

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