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SETTLING HIS ACCOUNT WITH JEFFERSON 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 payments 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
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 payments 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.
