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SETTLING HIS ACCOUNTWITH JEFFERSON
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MADISON, JAMES. Autograph Document Signed, in the third person within the
text (“Js. Madison”), balance sheet, with Jefferson’s holograph docketing.The balance sheet,
showing Madison’s debt to Jefferson at the top amounting to 3,598 livres for books sent
from Paris, and below, 8 lines showing Madison’s payments against the debt, including pay-
ments to some of Jefferson’s debtors. Jefferson’s docketing, only the words “Madison James,”
written vertically at middle right verso. 1 page, 4to; faint scattered staining, tiny hole at
lower edge, folds.
Np, 1790
[3,500/5,000]
The list of Madison’s payments includes “Trees & fruits shipped from N.York,” amounting to
$30, and a subscription to
Philosophical Transactions
, $3. Madison converts the sum of pay-
ments shown in dollars to British crowns and then to French livres, so that the payments total
can be compared to the debt using the same currency.
During the late 1780s, while he served as Ambassador to France, Jefferson sent many books to
Madison, some of which were referenced in works penned by Madison, including his “Notes on
Government,” 1791.