BIB_ID
124654
Accession number
MA 364.61
Creator
Madison, James, 1749-1812.
Display Date
1801 Oct. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "James Madison Esq. / Secretary of State / Washington."
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The recipient, a cousin of Bishop Madison, served as the 5th Secretary of State (1801-1809) and the 4th President of the United States (1809-1817)
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The recipient, a cousin of Bishop Madison, served as the 5th Secretary of State (1801-1809) and the 4th President of the United States (1809-1817)
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Concerning a loan of $500; discussing what appears to be a controversy within the church; saying he has "sent to the National Intelligencer a fictitious letter stating, however, Facts with a few observations. Nothing so strongly marks the Virulence & the Meanness of the disappointed Party as these little Tricks to excite [illegible]. They carry with them the strongest Evidence, either of the most pitiful Hypocrisy, or the most bigoted Ignorance--But I believe the first is really the Case."
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