James Madison Papers

James Monroe to James Madison, 11 June 1803

From James Monroe

Paris June 11. 1803.

Dear Sir

I forward the inclosed1 to Havre in the hope it may find Mr. Jay there & be conveyed with our other dispatches by him. I shall now decide in a few days on the question relative to my trip to Spn. & inform you of it by the first opportunity. I shall certainly not go unless I find I may with safety as to things here & with some hope of advantage there. The French are in complete possession of Hanover by capitulation. A son of the King of Engld. who was there it is thought has got out of the way.2 Yr. friend & servant

Jas. Monroe

RC (DNA: RG 59, DD, France, vol. 8A).

1. Enclosure not identified, but it may have been Monroe’s private letter to JM of 8 June 1803.

2. George III’s son Adolphus, the duke of Cambridge, had been sent to Hanover to command its defense against the French (Annual Register for 1803 description begins The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1803 (London, 1805). description ends , pp. 283–87).

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    James Monroe to James Madison, 11 June 1803
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    “James Monroe to James Madison, 11 June 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-05-02-0103. [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, pp. 89–90.]

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