Transcription of letter to Antoine-Charles Cazenove, July 5, 1822 A.L.S

J.C. Calhoun                        Washington
5 July, 1822
Gentlemen
I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd, and would
have availed myself of the opportunity you mention for procuring
wine from Madeira, had I not already engaged a supply of that article, through Wm John Herbert of your city.
I am respectfully,
Gentlemen
Your Obedient Servant
J.C. Calhoun
Mes, A.C. Cazenove
Alexandria

Comments: 
This letter seems to be a letter of response of by John C. Calhoun, to Mr. Anthony-Charles Cazenove informing him that Calhoun had already purchase imported wine from another firm. The Cazenove firm had apparently solicited Calhoun to sell him some Madeira wine.
The Cazenove family dates to the 15th century in southern of France. Family members were Huguenots who sought refuge in Geneva, Switzerland, after the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre - 1572. Active in international commerce, branches of the family settled in England, Italy, Spain, and the United States
Anthony-Charles Cazenove, (1775-1852), merchant and banker, was the second son of Paul Cazenove and Jeanne Elizabeth Martin. He was born 1775 in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1790 he went to London to work for a time in the counting house of James Cazenove & Co. In 1794 he and his brother, John-Anthony emigrated to Philadelphia, to escape the French Revolution which had come to Geneva. He settled in Alexandria, Virginia. About 1795 he became a partner in the firm Albert Gallatin & Co. Gallatin, also from Geneva, was a prominent businessman, legislature, diplomat and US Secretary of the Treasury. In 1797, Anthony married Anne Hogan in Alexandria. They had nine children. Cazenove’s granddaughters married into other prominent families, particularly the Lee’s and du Pont’s.
As the Crittenden letter (M-25) indicates Cazenove also served as consul for the Swiss Republic. In 1850 his son Louis-Anthony Cazenove (1807-1852) bought the Lee-Fendale House (built in 1785 and still existing) in Alexandria. Both Louis and Anthony died in 1852.
The Mercantile Library Collection M-98 includes a letter from Senator Daniel Webster to
Cazenove dated February 4, 1845,  one to him by Senator John Crittenden, dated October 31, 1851, in M-25, and a fragment of one to him by Henry Clay, undated in M-23.
References:
•	Google Web Search
- John C. Calhoun - Wikipedia
- Autobiographical Sketch of Anthony-Charles Cazenove, Political Refugee.
Merchant and Banker, 1775-1852, John Askling and Anthony-Charles
Cazenove, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 78, No. 3
(Jul., 1970), pp. 295-307 Published by: Virginia Historical Society (Book is on
the JSTOR site)
- Artisans and Merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, 1780-1820, Vol 1, - Google Books
- Anthony Charles Cazenove (1775 - 1852) - Find A Grave Memorial
- Lee-Fendall House - Wikipedia
- Albert Gallatin - Wikipedia
•	Anthony Charles Cazenove of Alexandria, Virginia, (1775 - 1852), Dorothy
Vandergrift Lee, 1969
•	Albert Gallatin, Jeffersonian Financier & Diplomat, Raymond Walters Jr., Macmillan
Company, 1957