MONROE, James. Autograph letter signed (“James Monroe”), as former President, to unidentified, New York, 3 November 1830. 1 page, 4to, small chip along left edge (repairs on verso) .
MONROE, James. Autograph letter signed (“James Monroe”), as former President, to unidentified, New York, 3 November 1830. 1 page, 4to, small chip along left edge (repairs on verso) . MONROE RECALLS HIS WORK ON THE “CESSION OF LOUISIANA” in this letter commenting on the memorial to Congress submitted on behalf of his former diplomatic colleague Fulwar Skipwith. He finds the document to be written with “ability & perspicacity, and will I hope have the desired effect. All the events to which it relates happened either after my recall from my first mission which was in Dec. 1796, or while I was in England after the conclusion of the treaty for the cession of Louisiana, which was on the 30th of April 1803.” Monroe is willing to render Skipwith “any service…with a sincere pleasure. He went with me on my first mission to France, as Secretary of the Legation, and I placed him in the office of consul, in which he was confirmed by the President, & in the discharge of the duties of the office, his conduct, while I was there, was in the highest degree satisfactory.
MONROE, James. Autograph letter signed (“James Monroe”), as former President, to unidentified, New York, 3 November 1830. 1 page, 4to, small chip along left edge (repairs on verso) .
MONROE, James. Autograph letter signed (“James Monroe”), as former President, to unidentified, New York, 3 November 1830. 1 page, 4to, small chip along left edge (repairs on verso) . MONROE RECALLS HIS WORK ON THE “CESSION OF LOUISIANA” in this letter commenting on the memorial to Congress submitted on behalf of his former diplomatic colleague Fulwar Skipwith. He finds the document to be written with “ability & perspicacity, and will I hope have the desired effect. All the events to which it relates happened either after my recall from my first mission which was in Dec. 1796, or while I was in England after the conclusion of the treaty for the cession of Louisiana, which was on the 30th of April 1803.” Monroe is willing to render Skipwith “any service…with a sincere pleasure. He went with me on my first mission to France, as Secretary of the Legation, and I placed him in the office of consul, in which he was confirmed by the President, & in the discharge of the duties of the office, his conduct, while I was there, was in the highest degree satisfactory.
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