1To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 13 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
This letter will be handed you by Dr Walter V. Wheaton my brother in law and late a Hospital Surgeon in the army. He is a candidate to be retained under the new law, and I take the very great liberty of commending him to your notice and protection. His reputation in the service and the strong testimonials he has received from those who were witnesses of his zeal and labours enables me to say...
2To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 24 May 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to enclose copy of a correspondence between myself & the Adjutant & Inspector General, in which I have reason to complain that I have been injuriously treated. It requires no comment from me; and the respectful confidence I feel in your justice renders it proper for me only to remark that the moment the performance of any other professional or public duties became...
3From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 29 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Mr. Wheaton, with thanks for the copy of his “Anniversary Discourse,” which is well calculated to attract attention to a subject deeply interesting to the U.S. by the views under which it is presented, and the lights thrown on it by his valuable researches & investigations. RC ( NNPM ). Henry Wheaton (1785–1848) was a graduate of the College of Rhode Island...
4To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 29 September 1823 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of writing you for the purpose of stating that I have undertaken to give the public some Account of the professional and political Character of the late Mr. Pinkney. With this view, I have endeavoured to collect as much of his private Correspondence as might be useful to my purpose. It is probable that whilst he was minister in England he might have written you, Sir, some...
5From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 15 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of Sepr. 29. touching on your proposed biography of the late Mr. Pinkney. You have chosen a subject furnishing an opportunity of at once doing justice to your own pen, & to a memory with which a rich assemblage of rare gifts is associated. I should take pleasure in contributing any private recollections that might aid in finishing the portrait: but my intercourse with...
6To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 1 January 1824 (Madison Papers)
I was extremely obliged by your letter of October 15th, & by the kind offer of the use of the letters of Mr. Pinkney. Singular as it may seem, there is not among the Papers of that gentleman confided by his family to me, a single copy of a letter from him to you. Whether he kept any copies, or not, I have been unable to learn. May I therefore ask of you to entrust the whole of his letters to...
7From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 3 March 1824 (Madison Papers)
On the receipt of your letter requesting me to transmit the letters of Mr. Pinkney to the care of the President I selected the proper ones, and have been waiting for an opportunity to comply with your wishes. None however has occurred except the Mail to which I am the less willing to entrust the packet as I have latterly experienced its failures in several like instances. Observing in the...
8To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 6 March 1824 (Madison Papers)
I am extremely indebted to you for your kind attention to my wishes. The letters can be sent at any time to the President, when you may find an opportunity, & I shall be able to have them transmitted to me at N. York without confiding in the Mail. I do not, at present, any opportunity of communicating with Montpellier. But should I learn any before I leave here, I will take care to inform you....
9To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 3 July 1824 (Madison Papers)
I ought long since to have acknowledged having received, through the President, the file of Mr Pinkney’s letters which you were so kind as to send me. This correspondence is highly interesting & throws great light upon the history of the times. I see it stated by you, in a pencil Note, that the substance of the British Orders in Council of Nov. 18th, was not only known by the Gov’t when the...
10From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 11 July 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 3rd. inst: referring to a penciled note of mine on a letter from Mr. Pinkney. It is a fact, as there noted, that when the Embargo was recommended to Congress Decr. 18. 1807, a copy of the British Orders in Council of Novr. 11. 1807, as printed in an English Newspaper stating them to be ready in that form to be signed & issued, lay on the President’s table. From...
11To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 27 February 1825 (Madison Papers)
I return you Mr Pinkney’s letters, from which I have made such Extracts as were to my purpose. I am extremely obliged by the use of them. I do not find among Mr Pinkney’s papers communicated to me by his family any of your private Letters to him. As you have doubtless kept copies of them, it would give me great satisfaction to see such of them as you have no objections should meet the public...
12From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 1 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
I recd lately thro’ President Monroe a return of the letters of Mr. Pinkney, accompanied by yours of Feby. 27. I find that copies of a part only of my letters to Mr. P. were retained, and parts of these scarcely, if at all, legible. Such as they are I commit them to your discretion; for which you may find some exercise in separating what may throw light on Mr. P.s side of the correspondence,...
13To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 26 July 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have been anxious to find an opportunity of sending to you a copy of my publication respecting Mr Pinkney, and have at last found one through the politeness of Mr Todd. I handed to that gentleman a copy, a few days since, which he undertook to transmit to you. I have only to regret that I had not an opportunity of embodying in the work more of the history of the times, which would have taken...
14From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 10 August 1826 (Madison Papers)
I received some days ago your favor of July 26: and the “Life of Mr. Pinkney” referred to, is now also come to hand: I return without delay, my thanks for the work, well assured that it will be found to merit them. I am not surprized that your known occupations did not permit you to mingle with the biographical topics, more of the historical notice of the period which you had once intended. I...
15From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 20 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 12th. came duly to hand; and I comply with its request as to the letter of Mr. Salomon, by the inclosed answer, which if he be not at Washington you will be kind eno’ to seal & forward. I am sor[r]y it is so destitute of the information he seeks. Had I ever known more than was probably the case, the lapse of 45 or 46 years would account for the present incompetency of my memory. I...
16From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 26 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
Since I answered your letter of it has occurred that I should shew a respect for your wishes, if I failed to fulfil them, by suggesting for your consideration the following topics, as far as any of them may fall within the range of your enlarged Edition of the “Life of Mr. Pinkney.” Without discussing the general character of the Treaty of 1795. with G. Britain, or wishing to revive...
17To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 17 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I am extremely obliged by your kind letter, & the Pamphlet enclosed, which I have read with very great interest. You will see by the Newspapers that I have been named to Denmark. Should I conclude to accept , it will not in the least interfere with my plan of giving a more extended view of Mr Pinkney’s Life, in connection with the transactions of his Times. It may, indeed, delay the execution...