James Madison Papers

Robert Williams to James Madison, 20 August 1803 (Abstract)

§ From Robert Williams

20 August 1803, North Carolina. Received JM’s letter of 16 July [not found] enclosing a commission to act as a commissioner in the Mississippi Territory, which he accepts. “A violent fever for 3 weeks past which I have had, pervented an earlier answer—& I am now, scarcely able to set up to write this.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “Williams”). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 9 Sept.

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