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Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803 to James Madison

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00099.131 Author/Creator: Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803 Place Written: Edmundsbury Type: Autograph letter signed Date: April 7, 1787 Pagination: 4 p. 23 x 19 cm Order a Copy

Also mentions importance of the Federal system, the political situation in Virginia in Madison's absence, situation with the Spanish on the Mississippi, impossibility of operating with independent sovereign state governments. Quotes Addison "brook the eternal devil"

Madison, James, Sr., 1723-1801
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

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