James Madison Papers

James Madison to Christian Mayer, 2 January 1804 (Abstract)

§ To Christian Mayer1

2 January 1804, Department of State. “In consequence of your letter [not found] I return enclosed the bill upon Mr. Adet for 32,287 livres 15 S. heretofore lodged in this Office by Moss Valck & Co. and I request you to acknowledge the receipt of it.”

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). 1 p.

1. German immigrant Christian Mayer was a tobacco merchant in Baltimore (Beirne, The Amiable Baltimoreans, p. 204; James Robinson, Baltimore Directory, for 1804 … [Baltimore, 1804; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 5764], pp. xlii, 149).

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    James Madison to Christian Mayer, 2 January 1804 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    Mayer, Christian
    Date
    2 January 1804

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    “James Madison to Christian Mayer, 2 January 1804 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0255. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, p. 278.]