James Madison Papers

To James Madison from James Eastburn, 10 January 1817

From James Eastburn

Newyork. 10 Jany 1817.

Sir

Will you permit me to lay before your Excellency the prospectus of a course of publications, which I should wish to usher before the public with the Sanction of your Excellencys name.

I beg leave to refer your Excellency for my Character & standing, to the Hon: R. Rush, to whom I am personally known. I have the honor to be Sir Your most Obedient & very humble Servant

James Eastburn1

RC (DLC).

1. The enclosure has not been found, but it was very likely New York printer and bookseller Eastburn’s Prospectus for Printing by Subscription, […] Limited Editions of Scarce Books, in the Various Branches of Literature, from the Sixteenth Century Down to the Present Time (New York, 1817; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 40716).

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    To James Madison from James Eastburn, 10 January 1817
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    Eastburn, James
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    Madison, James
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    10 January 1817

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    “To James Madison from James Eastburn, 10 January 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0640. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 603.]