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LS as secretary of state, one page, 7.5 x 9.75, October 31, 1807. Addressed from the Department of State in Washington, a letter to prominent New Jersey jurist Samuel Bayard, in full: “I have the Honor to inform you that the Secretary of the Treasury has this day been requested to cause a Remittance of Thirteen hundred and eighty eight pounds, nineteen shillings and two pence stg to be made to General Lyman, Consul of the U. States at London, to pay the Balance still due to the Proctors, agreeably to the Intimation in your letter of the 3rd. Inst.” In fine condition, with light show-through from a thin mounting strip on the back of the left edge.
Written during Madison’s tenure as secretary of state under Thomas Jefferson, this letter concerns the transmission of federal funds through General Theodore Lyman, the American consul in London. The recipient, Samuel Bayard, was one of New Jersey’s most distinguished attorneys, a trustee and longtime treasurer of the College of New Jersey (Princeton), and a respected figure in early American legal and political circles.
Dated October 31, 1807, the letter was written just four months after the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, in which a British warship fired upon and boarded an American naval vessel, bringing the United States to the brink of war with Great Britain. Less than two months later, Jefferson would sign the Embargo Act of 1807 in an effort to pressure Britain and France through economic means.
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