James Madison, Union Court House, South Carolina, to Richard Bibb, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 12 October 1803
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Collection Kerby A. Miller
Title James Madison, Union Court House, South Carolina, to Richard Bibb, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 12 October 1803
Description James Madison writes to Richard Bibb informing him that where he is located, there are few Virginians, being instead mosly made up of "Irish Paddies, Scotch and Dutch and of all the People of my acquaintance the Hypocritically Religious Irish are the best [?]". He proceeds to detail the villanious behaviour of the Irish in business dealings but concludes "let's frait[?] the Paddies as they are not worth talking about". [Letter text incomplete. It is uncertain whether this is an extract from a letter or the only surviving text from the original manuscript.]
Date 12/10/1803
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Resource Type Text
Archival Record Id p155/66/32
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 1p
Topic Madison Letter
Geographic Union (city),Union (county),South Carolina,United States,Fredericksburg (city),Fredericksburg (county),Virginia
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen hundreds (Decade)
Genre Letter,Transcription
Note Handwritten transcript prepared by Dr. Bruce D. Boling (collaborator of Professor Kerby Miller). Title and description by University of Galway.
Creator / Author Name James Madison
Licence Name CC-BY-NC 4.0
Licence URL https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Part Of: p155_0066_0032_d001