James Madison Papers

From James Madison to DeWitt Clinton, 20 January 1803 (Abstract)

§ To DeWitt Clinton

20 January 1803. “The nomination of Mr. [James] Anderson as Commercial Agent at Cette, was made by the President in consequence of the inclosed letter,1 which being an original I request the favor of you to return to me, after having made the use of it that you may think proper.”

RC (NNC: DeWitt Clinton Papers). 1 p.

1. The enclosure was probably Fulwar Skipwith to JM, 30 Mar. 1802 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 3:90–91); see also James Anderson to JM, 25 Mar. 1802 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 3:70 and n.).

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    From James Madison to DeWitt Clinton, 20 January 1803 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    Clinton, DeWitt
    Date
    20 January 1803

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    “From James Madison to DeWitt Clinton, 20 January 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0314. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 270.]

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