1From James Madison to William Shaler, 20 April 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. from the publishers in Boston, a copy of your “Sketches of Algiers”; forwarded as they intimate by your request. The work is welcomed by the public here, as it well deserves to be, as a very valuable addition to what was hitherto known of the singular and interesting quarter of which it treats. Your Country gains credit also from the example of such a publication by one of its...