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- GLC#
- GLC05568
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1815/02/18
- Author/Creator
- Monroe, James, 1758-1831
- Title
- to Charles Everett
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket : address : free frank Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Announces the arrival of the Treaty of Ghent in Washington, D.C., which ended the War of 1812, and favorably assesses it as "perfectly honorable to the UStates." Also comments that the Battle of New Orleans "gives its men a splendour which will make the epoch memorable in our history." Monroe was then secretary of state. Dr. Everett was a physician and a state politician in Virginia. Letter includes an address and free frank in Monroe's own hand.
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