James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Andrew Ellicott, 8 May 1801

¶ To Andrew Ellicott

Letter not found. 8 May 1801. Acknowledged in Ellicott to JM, 20 May 1801. Offered for sale in Sotheby Parke Bernet, Fine Americana: Manuscript and Printed (25 Nov. 1975), item 408, which notes that the one-page letter, in JM’s hand, “informs Ellicott attempts will be made, in about twelve or fourteen days, to settle accounts due him for ‘… running the Southern Border.’”

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