To James Madison from José Francisco Corrèa da Serra, [ca. August 1815]
From José Francisco Corrèa da Serra
[ca. August 1815]
Petitions of J. Corrèa to the President of the U.S.
1. A recommendation to the agent with the Cherokees1
2. Some perfect fruits of Bow wood from Louisiana, and some perfect seeds of the same—the fruits if they are spoiled by drying, can be put in a Liquor half spirits half water
3. A perfect skull of Buffaloe.
These objects if sent to Genl. Mason at Washington who has continual intercourse with the West and Indian nations, will safely come to Mr. Corrèa’s hands and he will indemnify the expences to Genl. Mason.
RC (DLC). Undated; dated 1815 in the Index to the James Madison Papers; conjectural date assigned here based on comparison with Return Jonathan Meigs Sr. to JM, 22 Dec. 1815 (DLC), and evidence in n. 1. Docketed by JM.
1. In early September 1815 Corrèa da Serra set out on the journey to Tennessee and other points in the southern United States for which he wished to have this introduction to Meigs (Davis, “The Abbé Correa in America,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n.s., 45 [1955]: 102).