James Madison Papers

From James Madison to David Gelston, [15 May 1809]

To David Gelston

[15 May 1809]

Dr Sir

I am favored with yours of the 11th.1 and thank you for your promised attention to the Wine &c. from Lisbon. If the wine should not be cased, I beg that you will be good eno’ to have that precaution taken agst. injury on its way to this City. Accept my respects

James Madison

RC (owned by Marshall B. Coyne, Washington, D.C., 1987). Calendared in PJM-PS description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984–). description ends , 1:188. Undated; date assigned here on the basis of the 15 May Washington postmark.

1. See PJM-PS description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984–). description ends , 1:180.

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    From James Madison to David Gelston, [15 May 1809]
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    Madison, James
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    Gelston, David
    Date
    15 May 1809

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    “From James Madison to David Gelston, [15 May 1809],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0641. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 5 November 1811–9 July 1812 and Supplement 5 March 1809 – 19 October 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Jewel L. Spangler, Ellen J. Barber, Martha J. King, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 594.]

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