RC (DLC); at foot of text: “The President of the U States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the State Department on 12 Aug. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosures: probably (1) Robert R. Livingston to Madison, 27 Mch., regarding complaints by the French government against Daniel McNeill, French involvement in the West Indies, duties on exports in foreign vessels, and U.S. arms to Saint-Domingue (Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962–, 33 vols. Sec. of State Ser., 1986–, 9 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984–, 6 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009–, 1 vol. description ends ., 3:76–9; Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to TJ, 12 May). (2) Livingston to Madison, 10 May, regarding French debt repayment, the French invasion of Saint-Domingue, and assassination plots against the first consul (Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962–, 33 vols. Sec. of State Ser., 1986–, 9 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984–, 6 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009–, 1 vol. description ends ., 3:204–6). (3) Livingston to Madison, 10 May, regarding Napoleon’s life tenure as first consul, Italian troops embarking for Saint-Domingue, and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte’s supposed command of a French occupation force to Louisiana (same, 207). (4) Livingston to Madison, 12 May, regarding Napoleon’s life tenure as first consul and the issue of succession, the resignation of Thomas Sumter, Jr., and Livingston’s desire to name a secretary of legation (same, 219–20);

Daniel Brent, in September 1802, sent TJ a two-sentence extract on Livingston’s desire to name a secretary of legation (Tr in DLC; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962–, 33 vols. Sec. of State Ser., 1986–, 9 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984–, 6 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009–, 1 vol. description ends ., 3:220, 555). (5) Livingston to Madison, 20 May 1802, regarding U.S. claims against France, armaments for Louisiana, Napoleon’s life tenure as first consul, Livingston’s fitness for his office as minister, and renewal of the slave trade (same, 229–33). (6) Patent not identified, but see note to Matthew C. Groves to TJ, 2 Aug. 1802, for one of nine patents issued between 17 Aug. and 24 Sep. (List of Patents description begins A List of Patents granted by the United States from April 10, 1790, to December 31, 1836, Washington, D.C., 1872 description ends , 29).

FATIGUING JOURNEY: probably a family trip to Harewood, near Charles Town, Virginia, to visit Lucy Payne Washington, Dolley Madison’s sister. While also commenting on the “fatigues” of the journey, Dolley Madison noted that she spent three happy days with her sister (Mattern and Shulman, Dolley Madison description begins David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman, eds., The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, Charlottesville, 2003 description ends , 50–1, 414; Ralph Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography [New York, 1971], 381).