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- GLC#
- GLC00099.125-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 1, 1783
- Author/Creator
- Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803
- Title
- to James Madison
- Place Written
- Edmundsbury
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 31 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Signature has been clipped-off but postscripts remain. Mention's powers of Congress, seat of government (Philadelphia, Annapolis), need for a Constitution, crops in Virginia, Edmund Pendleton's suggestions regarding the District of Columbia. A large section of this letter was clipped out, beneath this a postscript reading: "Between the first two stars [was] cut out on the 2d Dec. 30. for Mr I[srael].K[eech]. Tefft. S[avanna]h.Ga. as an Autograph. 'We have at length had very fine rains, but according to the state of all sublunary things, are now under great anxiety, lest our Crops should be nip'd by a Frost, the wind blowing very bleak from the North, however we must be satisfied with whatever happens. I am very truly || Dr Sir yr affe friend. Edmd Pendleton" [|| in original as two upright slashes]. Tefft appears in PJM 17: 505 n.3 from James Madison's correspondence of 1830 Dec. 3.]
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