business: farming, payment and collection of debts, slave sales; Joseph J Monroe has purchased a poor piece of land-is going to sell it and buy something better
land purchases; thanks JM for supervising Joseph Jones Jr - suggests a course of study for him; Senate is debating British treaty; John Jay elected governor of New York; hopes Paris is peaceful; constitutional government is the key to domestic…
attending to JM's business-payment of debts, purchase of land including parcel in Loudoun County; warns JM that his public correspondence, particularly his remarks on the Jacobins, are being used for political purposes by the Federalists; relays news…
will visit JM's home on his way to Staunton; asks JM to subscribe to a newspaper in Philadelphia before he leaves for Virginia; commercial relations between the United States and Great Britain
sorry that Albert Gallatin lost his seat in Congress; widespread support for James Madison's resolutions in favor of French-American friendship; widespread anger over British restrictions on American shipping; recommendations for judicial reform;…
pleased that Senate proceedings will be open to the public during the next session; sorry that Albert Gallatin is leaving the Senate; not known if Edmund Genet's successor as minister from France has arrived; affairs in Europe
newspapers editors need to deliver their papers as quickly as possible to stay in competition; recommendation of Thomas Moffatt for appointment as caretaker of the lighthouse at Norfolk; debates in Congress; presidential election