Monroe, James, 1758-1831 to Charles F. Mercer
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01192 Author/Creator: Monroe, James, 1758-1831 Place Written: Oak Hill, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: May 19, 1826 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy
Acknowledges the letter from Mercer by Mr. Hawkins. States he is satisfied with the work of the Committee of Claims in the House of Representatives on his refund requests from his time overseas. Discusses possible publication of the documents pertaining to his claims. In the postscript he qualifies his desperate financial state: "In fact I have been plac'd in a situation, fraught with so many difficulties & delicacies, that I have not known how to act in it." Recipient inferred from handwriting of docket, which is the same as a docket on GLC01134, a letter from Monroe to Mercer. Letter written two days before Congress approved a payment of $29,513 to Monroe.
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