Letter not found. 23 May 1803. Acknowledged in Wagner to Patrick, 1 June 1803 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). Requests information about the claims convention with Spain.
“To James Madison from John Patrick, 23 May 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-05-02-0034. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 5, 16 May–31 October 1803, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Bradley J. Daigle. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 28.]