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- GLC#
- GLC00099.046-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- August 27, 1780
- Author/Creator
- Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803
- Title
- to James Madison re: proposes correspondence, military news
- Place Written
- Edmundsbury
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 32 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
In the letter, Edmund Pendleton proposes to Madison that they should exchange correspondence while Madison serves in Congress. "The rites of [political] friendship." He passes along news of military actions in the South. It mentions General Gates' letter to Congress and the "unhappy affair to the southward." The letter includes other political matters.
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