James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Edmund M. Blunt, 28 June 1811 (Abstract)

§ From Edmund M. Blunt

28 June 1811, New York. “Permit my enclosing for your inspection a copy of the Nautical Almanac which I assure your Excellency is correct.1 I was this day informed at the Navy Office the Officers of the Navy were using the Edition published by Mr John Garnett.2 Mr Garnett’s Almanac for 1811 contains Nine Errors! that for 1812 Thirteen Errors!!! … No work should have national encouragement which is not entitled to private patronage.” Requests a reply.

RC (DLC). 2 pp. Docketed by JM.

1. The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year 1812 (New York, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols. to date; New York, 1958—). description ends 23485). This was apparently Blunt’s adaptation of a British work with the same title.

2. Garnett’s edition of The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, printed in New Brunswick, New Jersey, had gone through seven American impressions since 1804 (Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols. to date; New York, 1958—). description ends 6854, 8960, 10940, 13171, 15694, 18166, 20830).

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    To James Madison from Edmund M. Blunt, 28 June 1811 (Abstract)
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    Blunt, Edmund M.
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    Madison, James
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    28 June 1811

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    “To James Madison from Edmund M. Blunt, 28 June 1811 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-03-02-0419. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 3, 3 November 1810–4 November 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, p. 361.]

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