James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Robert Power, 1 April 1806 (Abstract)

To Robert Power, 1 April 1806 (Abstract)

§ To Robert Power. 1 April 1806, Department of State. “It being represented that you detain the Seal & official documents of the late Mr. G. W. Mc.Elroy, under the apprehension that you would not be justified in delivering them to his successor Mr. John James Armstrong without an order from this Department, I have thought proper to direct that they be given up to him without delay.”1

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15). 1 p.

1. See Power to JM, 14 Feb. 1805, PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (11 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends 9:43.

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    From James Madison to Robert Power, 1 April 1806 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    Power, Robert
    Date
    1 April 1806

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    “From James Madison to Robert Power, 1 April 1806 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0368. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 11, 1 January 1806–31 May 1806, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 447.]

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