James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Rufus King, 10 September 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Rufus King

10 September 1801, London. No. 34. Based on a slight acquaintance, has a favorable opinion of the author of the enclosed memoir, which may be of use to southerners.

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, DD, Great Britain, vol. 9); letterbook copy and English translation of enclosure (NHi: Rufus King Papers, vol. 54). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by King; docketed by Wagner. Enclosure (8 pp., in Spanish) is an essay by P. Oribe y Vargas dated London, 4 Aug. 1801, on the cure and prevention of reactions to the bite of venomous snakes through the use of the guaco plant. King apparently enclosed an English translation of the essay as well, since the version in King’s letterbook was printed in the National Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 1801, along with an extract of his letter.

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    To James Madison from Rufus King, 10 September 1801 (Abstract)
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    King, Rufus
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    Madison, James
    Date
    10 September 1801

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    “To James Madison from Rufus King, 10 September 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0149. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 98–99.]

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