James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Charles Haumont, 26 June 1810 (Abstract)

§ From Charles Haumont

26 June 1810, Sapelo Island. Apologizes for troubling JM again about his manuscript, which he fears has been lost. Mentions that he heard about three weeks ago that there was a letter addressed to him from JM [not found] in the post office in McIntosh County. Begs JM to instruct the postmaster general to locate the manuscript and forward it to Charles Harris at Savannah.

RC and translation (DNA: RG 59, ML). RC 2 pp., written in French. Translation 2 pp., in Haumont’s hand.

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    To James Madison from Charles Haumont, 26 June 1810 (Abstract)
    Author
    Haumont, Charles
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    26 June 1810

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    “To James Madison from Charles Haumont, 26 June 1810 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0490. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 393.]

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