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MADISON, JAMES. President. Autograph letter signed ("James Madison") to Judge [Bushrod] Washington, Montpellier, 1 December 1822. 1 full page, 4to, 250 x 200mm. (9 7/8 x 7 7/8in.), integral address leaf with recipient's docket.
MADISON REVISITS HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON
"I return under cover with this the second parcel of my letters to General Washington which you were so obliging to send me. I am sensible of the Delay in fulfilling my promise, but it is late only that I could have the desired copies taken; and I ventured to suppose that the certainty of the return of the originals was the only circumstance to which any attention would be given. Having found in these papers several particulars which I wished to possess; and seeing by references in Genl Washington's letters to me, to which I may add my own reflections, that there must be other letters from me to him...I can not but hope that a further search by the Chief Justice [James Marshall] or yourself may procure for me the opportunity of looking into their contents; for which I shall feel a great addition to the obligations your kindness has already laid me under...."
MADISON REVISITS HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON
"I return under cover with this the second parcel of my letters to General Washington which you were so obliging to send me. I am sensible of the Delay in fulfilling my promise, but it is late only that I could have the desired copies taken; and I ventured to suppose that the certainty of the return of the originals was the only circumstance to which any attention would be given. Having found in these papers several particulars which I wished to possess; and seeing by references in Genl Washington's letters to me, to which I may add my own reflections, that there must be other letters from me to him...I can not but hope that a further search by the Chief Justice [James Marshall] or yourself may procure for me the opportunity of looking into their contents; for which I shall feel a great addition to the obligations your kindness has already laid me under...."