Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1821
From Mathew Carey
Philada May 16. 1821.
Sir,
By this day’s Mail, I forward you a set of papers on the subject of the pernicious tendency of our present policy on the best interests of the agriculturists generally. Hoping it may meet with your approbation, I remain, respectfully
Mathew Carey
RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson, Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 27 May 1821 but recorded in SJL as received a day earlier. Enclosure: Carey, Address to the Farmers of the United States, on the Ruinous consequences to their vital Interests, of the existing Policy of This Country (Philadelphia, 1821).
Carey sent the same enclosure to John Adams and James Madison (Adams to Carey, 24 May 1821 [NNGL]; Madison, Papers, Retirement Ser., 2:325–6, 331–2).
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