James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Mr. Mountford, 12 October 1806

To Mr. Mountford

Sunday Ocr. 12. 1806

Mr. Madison presents his respects to Mr. Mountford and will be glad to see him tomorrow at Eleven OC—at the Office of State.

RC (DLC: John Davis Batchelder Collection, Part I). Addressed by JM to “Mr. Mountford” at “Seemm’s Hotel,” which was probably a Georgetown establishment run by Joseph Semmes (Oliver W. Holmes, “The City Tavern: A Century of Georgetown History, 1796–1898,” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 50 [1980]: 11, 15–23).

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    From James Madison to Mr. Mountford, 12 October 1806
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    Madison, James
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    Mountford, Mr.
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    12 October 1806

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    “From James Madison to Mr. Mountford, 12 October 1806,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-12-02-0542. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 12, 1 June 1806–31 October 1806, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, p. 386.]