1From James Madison to John M. Forbes, 4 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letters of 18 Feby, 19 March and 5th April. In the enclosure contained in the first, it is seen with regret, that the impressions produced in your mind by the Senate of Hamburg declining to interpose with respect to the ship Nien Straeden and by the banishment of Mr Smith have misled you from the line of deference towards that authority prescribed in your instructions. The...
2From James Madison to John M. Forbes, 18 September 1824 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty for which I am sure the occasion will apologize of introducing to your kind attentions, the Reverend Herbert Marshall, a native Citizen of the UStates, and a Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Having resided a few years ago in this Neighbourhood, I had an opportunity of knowing his worth, and he of forming a claim to this testimony of it. He has for a considerable...