This cover letter and its four enclosures, directed to Crawford allies Cobb and Upson, relate to a disagreement between Crawford and Secretary of War John C. Calhoun over the appointment of Gen. Thomas Flournoy as commissioner to the Creek Indians in 1820. Both Crawford and Calhoun denied ultimate responsibility for the appointment. To make his point, possibly for publication, Crawford assembled: 1) a copy of a letter of December 1820 from Gen. David Adams to Georgia governor John Clark, stating that Calhoun proposed the appointment of Flournoy; 2) a copy of a letter from Clark to Calhoun dated 27 August 1821, in Crawford's hand, requesting a copy of the recommendation whereby Flournoy was appointed; 3) a reply from Calhoun to Clark, dated 12 October 1821, copied by Crawford, in which Calhoun recalls that Crawford proposed Flournoy; 4) a retained copy of Crawford's reply to Calhoun, 13 October 1821.