Letter to Presidential Electors for James Madison.

• imprint_number: 1808.017
• title: Richmond, February 1st, 1808 : Sir, At a meeting held on Thursday, the 21st January, by a majority of the members of the legislature of Virginia, it was unanimously resolved to support James Madison, as a candidate to fill the office of the president ... In obedience to established customs, an Electoral College has been formed, and you have been selected as an elector ...
• sequence_number: 17
• year: 1808
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Republican Party in Virginia. Central Corresponding Committee.
• notes: Signed in print by seven members of the "standing committee," commonly known as the Richmond Junto; item evinces support of primary Republican leaders for Madison in 1808 election over a splitter group endorsing James Monroe as Jefferson's successor.
  Sheet lacks colophon; this letter could have been issued by any of Richmond's Republican printers: Samuel Pleasants, Thomas Ritchie, or Seaton Grantland (particularly by Pleasants, who was a member of this committee), so the indeterminacy here.
  
  
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