James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Henry Clay, 13 May 1826

From Henry Clay

Department of State, 13 May 1826.

Dear Sir,

I received your letter of the 10th. Instant,1 transmitting those of Messrs. D’Espenville2 and Hersant respecting the box of seeds for the use of the Agricultural Society of Virginia. Although I do not myself perceive that I have any right to direct the disposal of it, I shall comply with your suggestion, in requesting Messrs. Mackay and Campbell to forward it to the University of Virginia. With my best respects to Mrs. Madison, I am truly your obedt. servt.

(signed) H. Clay.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 21).

1. Letter not found.

2. Charles-Louis Glué, comte d’Espinville (d. 1828) was French consul at New York, 1816–28 (P. Louis Lainé, Archives généalogiques et historiques de la noblesse de France […] [11 vols.; Paris, 1828–50], s.v. Glué, art. de Dion, 3:21; Alexandria Gazette, Commercial and Political, 23 July 1816; Dedham, Mass., Village Register and Norfolk County Advertiser, 18 Sept. 1828).

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    To James Madison from Henry Clay, 13 May 1826
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    Clay, Henry
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    Madison, James
    Date
    13 May 1826

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    “To James Madison from Henry Clay, 13 May 1826,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-04-02-0052. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 3 March 1826–29 February 1828, ed. Armin Mattes, David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Anne Mandeville Colony, Ellen D. Goldlust, Mary Parke Johnson, Katherine E. Harbury, and Mary K. Wigge. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023, pp. 43–44.]

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