James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Abraham Small, 2 February 1826

From Abraham Small

Chesnut St Phila. Feby 2d. 1826

Sir

I hope you will pardon my requesting you to remit me Five Dolls. for the Vol Philol. Transactions sent by Post,1 as the Society are wanting a settlement. I am, with deference & respect

Abrm. Small2

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM: “$ sent.”

1. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge, n.s., 2 (Philadelphia, 1825).

2. Abraham Small (1765–1829) was an English-born Philadelphia printer and publisher, 1799–1829 (Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser, 17 Sept. 1829; Rosalind Remer, Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic [Philadelphia, 1996], 38, 70).

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    To James Madison from Abraham Small, 2 February 1826
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    Small, Abraham
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    Madison, James
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    2 February 1826

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    “To James Madison from Abraham Small, 2 February 1826,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0705. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 679.]