James Madison Papers

From James Madison to the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, 16 October 1801 (Abstract)

§ To the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs

16 October 1801, Department of State, Washington. Transmits a letter of condolence from the president to the prince regent of Portugal on the death of the prince of Beira. Asks the Portuguese minister to present it since the American minister at Lisbon presumably has taken his leave.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, IC, vol. 1). 1 p.

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    From James Madison to the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, 16 October 1801 (Abstract)
    Author
    Madison, James
    Recipient
    Mello e Castro, João de Almeida de
    Date
    16 October 1801

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    “From James Madison to the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, 16 October 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0270. [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, p. 179.]

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