James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William J. Coffee, 3 May 1820

From William J. Coffee

Monticelo May 3. 1820

Sir,

I have taken the Liberty of Inclosing you Small Acct which I Shall be much favord by recving in a few days when I Shall Call on my way home.1 Sir I Am with Much Respect and Esteem

W: J: Coffee

RC (DLC).

1. On 25 May 1820 JM made out a receipt, which Coffee signed: “Recd. of James Madison fifty dollars seventy five Cents: being in full for Models & Busts made for him” (CSmH). For the busts of JM, Dolley Madison, and John Payne Todd modeled by Coffee, see his letters to JM of 4 July 1818 and 23 Dec. 1819, PJM-RS description begins David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2009–). description ends 1:297, 575.

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    To James Madison from William J. Coffee, 3 May 1820
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    Coffee, William J.
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    3 May 1820

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    “To James Madison from William J. Coffee, 3 May 1820,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-02-02-0058. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 1 February 1820 – 26 February 1823, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, pp. 60–61.]

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