James Maury to James Madison, 5 May 1802 (Abstract)
§ From James Maury
5 May 1802, Liverpool. Encloses prices of imported American articles. “The immensely unprecedented Imports of Cotton, and particularly from Georgia, Carolina & the Mississippi, have already reduced the prices of the less valuable sorts.… Grain & flour seem daily on the decline.”
RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, CD, Liverpool, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; marked “(duplicate)”; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury. Enclosure is a one-page list of “Prices Current of American Produce at Liverpool 5th. May 1802.”
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