James Madison Papers

James Madison to James Monroe, 2 November 1801

To James Monroe

Washington Novr. 2. 1801

Dear Sir

General Mason has just requested me to forward the inclosed 100 dolrs. to be put into the hands of Mr. S. Pleasants for Mr. Callander.1 Yrs. affy.

Js. Madison

RC (NhHi).

1. Virginia senator Stevens Thomson Mason was an active supporter of Callender’s cause (see Michael Durey, “With the Hammer of Truth”: James Thomson Callender and America’s Early National Heroes [Charlottesville, Va., 1990], pp. 110–11, 136). For Monroe’s earlier efforts as an intermediary in the Callender affair, see PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 1:265–66, 314–15. For the involvement of Richmond editor Samuel Pleasants, Jr., see PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 1:145, 315.

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    James Madison to James Monroe, 2 November 1801
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    Madison, James
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    2 November 1801

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    “James Madison to James Monroe, 2 November 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0330. [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. 217.]

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