To James Madison from Edgar Macon, 18 April 1823
From Edgar Macon
April 18th. 1823
Dear Uncle
The money you put into my hands to meet and adjust the claims of Mr Mackay, I have returned in consequence of my not finding that gentleman at Orange Court House, as I expected, he having left it the evening before I saw you. I have written to Mr. J. S. Barbour, as I informed you I intended, and if he is not lost to all feeling of sensibility and moral rectitude, I am in hopes he will transmit me, your demands, at the Madison election.1 I send you a letter from Mr. J. B. dated the 23d Ulto. which you will please to preserve,2 this letter I immediately answered and informed Mr. B. he was at liberty to deduct his fee. With respect I am your affectionate nephew
Edgar Macon
RC (DLC: Dolley P. Madison Papers). Docketed by JM.
1. The money held by John S. Barbour for JM was probably that which resulted from the chancery suit JM instituted against John Strode, in which he retained Barbour as his lawyer. See , 1:246 and n. 1, 291, 451, 520, 590–91, 2:57–58, 59–60. Barbour had still not paid JM the money by January 1824 (JM to Barbour, 3 Jan. 1824).
2. John S. Barbour to Edgar Macon, 23 Mar. 1823 (DLC). Barbour wrote: “Send me a statement of Mr Madisons claim & I will transmit you the amt. without delay. Mr. M. never paid me a fee & I presume he mistakes the fee bills to the Clerk & marshal for my fee. If however he says he paid me the fee be it so: Write me if you please immediately.”