James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John Murray & Sons and Others, 31 October 1811 (Abstract)

§ From John Murray & Sons and Others

31 October 1811, New York. The subscribers recommend John Gilmour, who is a respectable and intelligent gentleman and a fit person for a consulship.

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Gilmour”). 2 pp. Signed by Murray & Sons and twelve others, including Henry Remsen. Docketed by Monroe as a “recommdn of a Consul for Glasgow.” Probably enclosed in Gilmour to Monroe, 2 Dec. 1811 (ibid.), where Gilmour requested that the president be informed that he wished to be appointed consul in Glasgow.

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    To James Madison from John Murray & Sons and Others, 31 October 1811 (Abstract)
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    John Murray & Sons
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    Madison, James
    Date
    31 October 1811

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    “To James Madison from John Murray & Sons and Others, 31 October 1811 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-03-02-0596. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 3, 3 November 1810–4 November 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, p. 535.]