James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Justin Pierre Plumard de Rieux, 19 February 1789

From Justin Pierre Plumard de Rieux

feby 19th. 1789

Sir

Doctor Gilmer inform me that you had been kind anougth, as to send me, Mr Mazzei Book,1 by some person, of which he cannot recollect the name; I should take as a great favour, if you woud be so obliging as to let me know by Colo. Ths. Bell of Charlotteville, or Capt Ths. Walker, Where I must apply for to Get that book. I am respectfully Sir your most obedt & most Hble Servant

P De Rieux
philip Mazzei Son in Law

RC (ViU). Addressed by de Rieux to JM at Orange.

1. On Mazzei’s book and de Rieux, see PJM description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (1 vol. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 10:72 n. 1, 468 n. 1.

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    To James Madison from Justin Pierre Plumard de Rieux, 19 February 1789
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    Derieux, Justin Pierre Plumard
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    Madison, James
    Date
    19 February 1789

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    “To James Madison from Justin Pierre Plumard de Rieux, 19 February 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0359. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 17, 31 March 1797–3 March 1801 and supplement 22 January 1778–9 August 1795, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne K. Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991, pp. 531–532.]

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