James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Theodore Peters, 9 December 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Theodore Peters

9 December 1802, Bordeaux. Transmits letters from Pinckney which he has been unable to send earlier “for want of a good and safe opportunity.” Has learned from friends in Europe and from American newspapers that the president has appointed him vice-agent for Bordeaux. Having received no official notice, doubts the authenticity of the reports. “A line from You upon This Subject will Infinitely Oblige Me.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Bordeaux, vol. 1). 1 p. Docketed by Wagner. For Peters’s appointment, see Pierce Butler to JM, 3 June 1801 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 1:258, 259 n. 3).

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    To James Madison from Theodore Peters, 9 December 1802 (Abstract)
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    Peters, Theodore
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    Madison, James
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    9 December 1802

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    “To James Madison from Theodore Peters, 9 December 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0195. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 184–185.]

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