7871James Madison to William Allen, 19 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letter communicating the sale of my flour was duly recd. but could not be sooner acknowledged. However short of our hopes I am sure that you have acted for the best; and it is quite propable that it has ended for the best. I thank you sir for your obliging managment of the business throughout and will now request that you will let me see the balance at my disposal—Oblige me by a further...
7872James Madison to David Hosack, 28 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your "Memoir of De Witt Clinton" which I owe to your politeness, found me under the influence of an oppressive indisposition, from which I apprehend a slow recovery. In this feeble state of my health, at my advanced Age, and with arrears of pressing claims on my attention, it is uncertain at least when I shall be able to give the memoir such a perusal as would be agreeable to me....
7873James Madison to Joseph Blunt, 29 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. Sir, some time ago your letter of the 8th Ulto accompanied by the 2d. volume of the "American Annual Register;" At a later day, the 1st. vol. was also recd. I am sorry it has not been in my power to give them such a perusal as was my wish. My health has been much interrupted since the opportunity was afforded; and is at present in so feeble a state, that at my advanced age, and with...
7874James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 30 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
My overseer is so pressed in winding up his late crop of Tobo. for wch. the winter was unfavorable, and in his preparations for the coming one, that he wishes to know whether the market for his lugs will not probably be as good in the Autumn as at this Season. Favor me with the proper information on this point. I have 4 or 5 Hhds to—add to the six at the Warehouse, which I hope with the six...
7875James Madison to John Hartwell Cocke, June 5, 1829 (Madison Papers)
I forward herewith a copy of Mr. Monroe’s paper from Mr. Trist. Your two letters from Charlottesville came duly to hand. I shall write to Mr. Long on the subject of the "Thesaurus", by Mr. Rives; who if he halts in England will probably see him; and if not will ask the favor of Mr. McLane to take charge of the letter. I have heard nothing from Mr. Long or Mr. Barbour on the subject of a...
7876James Madison to James Monroe, 3 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. yours of the 31st. Ult. inclosing letters recomending Mr J. T. Tracy, and hasten to correct an error you have fallen into which affect[s] the University as well as yourself. It is on the tenth , not the fifteenth of July, that the Visitors are to meet. I address this to N. Y. where you will probably have arrived. It gives us pleasure to find that Mrs. M encounters the...
7877James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 5 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
We are filling out for Richd. 2 Waggons with 4 Hhds. of Tobo. wch. I hope will find a good Market. This neighborhood has been favored with the finest planting season, and if the crops are not generally pitched, it must be owing to a backwardness of the plant beds, which I presume from the late frosting weather has happened in but a few instances, if in any. I ask your attention to the inclosed...
7878James Madison to Richard Cutts, 6 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a draft on Mr. Allen of Fredericksburg, for $150. which I hope will be in time to extinguish the debt to the Bank, before a renewal of the note and a further call on the friendship of Mr. Nourse, become necessary. Do not fail to make him fully sensible of my thankfulness, for the aid of his name so obligingly furnished throughout the period which made it acceptable. I am recovering...
7879James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 6 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
If I have not sooner thanked you for the considerate present in the Box of fruit referred to in your letter of , the apology will I am sure have occurr’d to you. A delay which the Box met with on the way lessened the value of a part of its contents, but not the obligat<ion> felt for the kindness wch prompted <...> the favour. I am regaining, tho’ not rapidly, my health, & strength. I hope the...
7880James Madison to George Long, 8 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your obliging letter of Decr—came duly to hand. Having heard nothing since either from you or from Mr. Barbour, I infer that our field of choice for the vacant Chair in our University will be limited to our own Country: In this event, your favorable estimate of Mr. Harrison’s qualifications will doubtless be a weight in his scale, when compared with the pretensions of others. Of the standing...
7881James Madison to Richard Cutts, 13 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your two letters of June 8 & 9. As my draft on Mr. Allen lately sent you will have furnished the means of extinguishing my debt to the Bank, I suppress the discounting note inclosed in one of them. It has not been my wish to precipitate the sale of the House & lots in Washington, & hope it may not be necessary. But the hold my Creditors have on my landed property here, exposing me...
7882James Madison to Hyde de Neuville, 15 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
My friend Mr. Rives is about to take his station in Paris, as diplomatic Representative of the U. States; and not doubting that an acquaintance will be mutually agreeable, I wish to open a direct way to it by this introduction. You will find him equally enlightened & amiable; with liberal views on all subjects; and with dispositions to cherish the friendly feelings & improve the beneficial...
7883James Madison to Marquis de Lafayette, 15 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Jany. 28 came duly to hand. The answer to it has been procrastinated to this late day by circumstances which you will gather from it. I am glad to learn that the regenerating spirit continues to work well in your public councils, as well as in the popular mind; and elsewhere as well as in France. It is equally strange & shameful, that England with her boasted freedom, instead of...
7884James Madison to William Madison, 15 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
Finding to my great regret that another Court had passed without a single step as far as I know being taken in the case of our mothers will whilst the debt of an impatient Creditor is swelling with Interest, and the property which is to pay the debts & Legacies probably sinking in price, I snatched the opportunity of an interview with Mr. Chapman to test his pulse on the subject. He manifested...
7885James Madison to William Cabell Rives, 16 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I inclose the promised letters to the Baron & Baroness de Neuville to which is added one to Genl. Lafayette. In this last, I have interwoven what will make you properly known to him and Mrs M. has subjoined what will equally introduce Mrs. Rives. We offer to you both our affectionate respects, & a repetition of all our good wishes Draft (DLC) .
7886James Madison to Elliott Cresson, 19 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
J. M. presents his respects to his friend E. Cresson, and fulfils his promise, by inclosing an autograph of General Washington & Mr. Jefferson. It would have been done sooner, but for a tedious indisposition, from which J. M is now not entirely recovered. FC (DLC) .
7887James Madison to John Finch, 20 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your letter of May 10th inclosing a continuation of your observations on the "Natural boundaries of Empires". The views you have taken of the subject, give it certainly an attractive interest. But I must retain the impression, that they may reasonably be qualified by the progress of human Art in controuling the operation of physical causes. I should have sooner acknowledged...
7888James Madison to Hezekiah Niles, 20 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have been long a subscriber to your "Register", and retain my respect for its merits, and sincere wishes for its prolonged success; but finding it expedient at the age I have reached, to abridge the attention required for such objects, I must request you to discontinue my name on your Subscription list. According to the account presented lately by your Collector, the balance due from me in...
7889James Madison to Lawrence T. Dade, 23 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of yesterday, on the subject of your application for an office becoming vacant at Washington. I need not assure you Sir that I have always entertained a very sincere esteem for your character, with the best wishes for your welfare, nor remark that I well know of the repeated proofs you have recd. of the public favor & confidence. But I could not comply with the request...
7890James Madison to Robert J. Dillon, 23 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of May 26, having passed on to a Southern post office did not reach me on its return, till yesterday. Its motive & language, entitled it to a kind, however unsatisfactory answer The question you state is too important not to forbid a naked decision, and if no other obstacle existed, the infirm state of my health would not admit a comprehensive & argumentative one. Whether the...
7891James Madison to Leroy Anderson, 26 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd Sir by the last mail, your letter of the 9th. inst: I can not but wish well to the object of the prospectus communicated, and feel all the respect due to the names which subscribe to it. But I am restrained from conforming to the example by a rule prescribed by the age I have reached, & other considerations, which not only forbids new subscriptions, but is withdrawing the greater part...
7892James Madison to Thomas S. Grimke, 27 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
J. M. presents his respects to Mr Grimke with acknowledgments for the Copy just recd. of his able & persuasive Address at the Dedication of a Building for Religious uses. FC (DLC) .
7893James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 27 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 23d. I canot but say that the sales of the Tobo. have disappointed my hopes, tho’ I have no doubt, your attentions did it justice; and that there must have been a defective management here. It is true, the want of rain at the ripening stage, may account in some degree for the prevailing quality: But it is equally true that my neighbors with the same weather, and a...
7894James Madison to James Monroe, 29 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment recd. yours of the 25th., and having a casual oppy. to the P. O. this evening shall get an answr. into the mail tomorrow morning. The 10th. of July is as you suppose the day for the Meeting of the Visitors, and I shall look for you here in due time. It ought to be on the 8th. at the latest. I am glad to find you so successful in overcoming the successive attacks on your...
7895James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd yours of June 29[h]; and am much obligd by your considerate provision of quarters for me & Mrs. M. during the approaching Sessions of the Bd. of Visitors. Should my health suddenly improve so far as to enable me to attend, I shall avail myself of the arrangement you have made. But such is at present my feeble state, with some remains of indisposition, that I count on the...
7896James Madison to George W. Featherstonhaugh, 2 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I can not at so late a day acknowledge the receipt of your favor of Mar. 1. without feeling that I owe an explanation of the delay. The truth is that it was at first occasioned by the idea that I should soon be able to combine with my thanks for the agreeable little volume accompanying your letter, those due for the important one from your own pen, and this cause of the delay was followed by...
7897James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 4 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by yesterday’s mail yours of the 2d. with the communication for Mr. T. J. Randolph wch. will be forwarded by the earliest mail, viz on Monday. I do not find among my Pamphlets that of Docr. Cooper on Government. I am under the impression that it is still in the hands of Mr. Lomax. In that case he will readily let you have it. Should it have been returned, let me know, and I will look...
7898James Madison to the Visitors of the University of Virginia, 9 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
It is with much concern that I find myself agn. detained by the infirm State of my health from the duty of being in my place at a Meeting of the Visitors. I had not been without hopes, that the obstacle wd. have been removed, but the remains of a bilious indisposition, with the feebleness produced by it, do not permit my wishes on the occasion. I can only therefore assure my Collegues, that no...
7899James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 11 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 3d. was duly recd. and the Articles it refers to [du]ly delivered. My overseer says that he can not immediately follow up the waggoning his Tobo. & wishes the 2 Hhds. on hand to be sold without waiting for more, being apprehensive that the order in which the Tobo. was priced, may render delay unfavorable to the sale, by limiting it to the manufacturers. The Harvest is now over in...
7900James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 13 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
Learning from Mr Rives that he expects to be in New York some days before his embarkation for France, I take the liberty of giving him a line for you. I need not refer to his high public standing, derived from the able part he has borne in public affairs, that being of course known to you; but as a friend & neighbour I wish to bear my testimony to his great personal worth; and the rather, as...