James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Benjamin Homans, 18 September 1816

From Benjamin Homans

Navy Department, September 18th. 1816.

Sir,

I have the honour to transmit the enclosed papers;1 which are of sufficient importance to induce me to trouble you upon the subjects they embrace, and to ask for instructions.

I have presumed to present these documents to your consideration, previously to taking any other step in the absence of the Secretary of the Navy. Most respectfully, I am, Sir, Your Obedt. Servt.

Benjamin Homans

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, LSP).

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    To James Madison from Benjamin Homans, 18 September 1816
    Author
    Homans, Benjamin
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    Madison, James
    Date
    18 September 1816

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    “To James Madison from Benjamin Homans, 18 September 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0387. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 375.]

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