To James Madison from Donald Fraser, 18 November 1811 (Abstract)
§ From Donald Fraser
18 November 1811. Presents a copy of his Compendium, “a thing of more curiosity, than merit.”1 Expresses his “high regard for [JM’s] amiable Character (for every great man is not a good man).”
RC (NN). 1 p. Dateline and signature clipped. Docketed by a clerk, “Fraser D. / Nov. 18th 1811.”
1. Donald Fraser (ca. 1754–1820), a Scottish-born author of a wide miscellany of writings on historical, literary, moral, and political subjects, evidently enclosed a copy of his Compendium of the History of All Nations (New York, 1807; 12600).