To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 August 1801
From Jacob Wagner
17 Augt. 1801.
Dr sir
I forgot to ask your direction about the Cattle mentioned in Mr. Eaton’s last letter. Are they to be sent? And if Dr. Gillasspy (to whom I have written) does not chuse to execute the timber-commission, ought we to do it?1 With perfect respect &c.
J Wagner
RC (DLC).
1. See 14 Apr. postscript to William Eaton’s 10 Apr. 1801 dispatch ( , 1:81–82). For Gillasspy’s contract, see Wagner to JM, 24 Aug. 1801, and n. 2.