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- GLC#
- GLC00496.255-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 1, 1787
- Author/Creator
- Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794
- Title
- to James Madison
- Place Written
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 22.7 cm, Width: 18.2 cm
- Language
- English
- Endowed By
- Endowed in honor of Lawson Wright by the Wright Family.
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Recipient is James Madison, who was awarded this degree in 1787. Madison's name is faded. Witherspoon informs the recipient, a College of New Jersey (now Princeton) alumni, that he has been awarded the Degree of Doctor of Laws. Written from "Tusculum near Princeton," Witherspoon's home.
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