James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Thomas Melvill Jr., 10 January 1816

From Thomas Melvill Jr.

Pittsfield January 10th. 1816.

Sir

As a feeble testimony of admiration of your public character & private virtues, the Berkshire Agricultural society has instructed me, to transmit to You Excellency, a Diploma of Honorary Member thereof.

I feel myself peculiarly happy in this occasion to renew an assurance of the high Consideration with which I have the honor to be Most Respectfully Your Excellencys Most Obdt st

Tho Melvill
Presdt

RC and enclosure (DLC). Docketed by JM. Enclosure (1 p.; filed at October 1815) is a certificate of membership in the Berkshire Agricultural Society, dated 24 Oct. 1815, signed by Melvill as president and William C. Jarvis as recording secretary.

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    To James Madison from Thomas Melvill Jr., 10 January 1816
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    Melvill, Thomas Jr.
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    Madison, James
    Date
    10 January 1816

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    “To James Madison from Thomas Melvill Jr., 10 January 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0148. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 153–154.]