James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Charles J. Ingersoll, 13 October 1824

To Charles J. Ingersoll

Montpr. Ocr. 13. 1824

J. Madison has recd. with pleasure the “Communication of Mr. I. to the American Philos: Society,”1 for which he can not return his thanks without alluding to the happy choice of topics for the occasion, and the very interesting sketches to which they led.

Draft (DLC).

1. Charles J. Ingersoll, A Communication on the Improvement of Government: Read before the American Philosophical Society, at a Meeting Attended by General Lafayette, October 1st. (Philadelphia, 1824; Shoemaker description begins Richard H. Shoemaker, comp., A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820–1829 (11 vols.; New York, 1964–72). description ends 16665). JM’s copy, with Ingersoll’s inscription on the cover, is in the Madison Collection, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.

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    From James Madison to Charles J. Ingersoll, 13 October 1824
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    “From James Madison to Charles J. Ingersoll, 13 October 1824,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0403. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 416.]

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