James Madison Papers

From James Madison to James Blake, 16 June 1802

To James Blake

Department of State June 16. 1802.

Sir,

Your letter of the 17th. May was duly recd. As it appears that you have relinquished the intention of now going to Europe, and the arrangement suggested by you, of performing the duties of Consul at antwerp by the agency of another, does not coincide with the views of the President, he has thought proper to appoint to that office another Gentleman who is now in France.1 I am &ca.

James Madison.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14).

1. In place of James Blake, Jefferson appointed Isaac Cox Barnet (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 1:433).

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    From James Madison to James Blake, 16 June 1802
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    16 June 1802

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    “From James Madison to James Blake, 16 June 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-03-02-0372. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 3, 1 March–6 October 1802, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p. 309.]

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