I have this day drawn on you in favor of Walter S. Chandler for two hundred dollars which you will please to
meet by a sale of as much flour as may be requisite.
“James Madison to William Allen, 22 December 1835,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/99-02-02-3202. [This is an
Early Access document
from The Papers of James Madison.
It is not an authoritative final version.]