James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 25 November] 1805

From Thomas Jefferson

[ca. 25 November 1805]

Additions proposed on some subjects suggested by mr. Gallatin submitted to mr. Madison by

Th: J.

The object of the 1st. addition is to give a practical or ostensible object to the observations on Yellow fever: The true one however being to present facts to the governments of Europe, which in the ordinary course of things, would not otherwise reach them in half a century.

RC (DLC). Undated; conjectural date assigned based on Gallatin to Jefferson, 25 Nov. 1805 (see n. 1 below).

1. In his 25 Nov. 1805 “Remarks on the Message,” Albert Gallatin suggested to Jefferson: “the second paragraph on the yellow fever ends rather abruptly, nothing is proposed or suggested for Congress to do, which can remedy the inconvenience complained of” (DLC: Jefferson Papers).

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    To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 25 November] 1805
    Author
    Jefferson, Thomas
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    Madison, James
    Date
    25 November 1805

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    “To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 25 November] 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-10-02-0560. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 10, 1 July 1805–31 December 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014, pp. 582–583.]

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