1From James Madison to Edward Stevens, 2 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of January 6th. 1801 containing a resignation of the appointment you have held in St. Domingo, having been received and the resignation accepted by the President, Tobias Lear Esqr. has been commissioned as your successor. The delay in his relieving you has been produced by circumstances which unavoidably had that effect. It will be particularly regretted if in its consequences it...
2From James Madison to Edward Stevens, 17 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I duly received your Letter of the 2d. Instant with the several papers to which it refers. The delay in acknowledging it, has proceeded partly from an unusual accumulation of Business the pressure of which has been much encreased by the sickness & absence of the chief Clerk in the Department, & partly also from the real difficulty involved in the nature of the case. On one hand the positive...