I enclose you some lines which were written very hastily yesterday morning immediately after receiving the news of the death of poor Florida Pope after nine months of severe suffering—She was beautiful and a child of the fairest promise and there is some thing remarkable in the serenity and sweetness which closed her dying moments—She was calm collected and happy and distributed her little...
2From James Madison to Ralph Randolph Gurley, 6 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects to Mr. Gurley, thanks him for the Copy of his Oration delivered on the 4th. of July last. He has read it with a due sense of the importance of the well handled topics introduced on the occasion. RC ( NjP : Jasper E. Crane Collection of James and Dolley Madison); FC ( DLC ). RC cover addressed and franked by JM . Minor differences between the copies have not been...
3To Thomas Jefferson from William Jones, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to interrupt your repose so far as to make some enquiry respecting your seminary of Education at Charlottesville in the Vicinity of your Residence. I have a Son now at Oxford whose Intelect is Judged to be promising, having a very slender Education myself such only as a common country school would afford 35 years past I am not capable of Judging the boys capacity with that accuteness...
4From James Madison to John O. Lay, 6 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd yours of the 2d. inst: stating the proceeds of the two last Hhds of my Tobo. and enclosing a Certificate of their deposit in Bank. I do not doubt that the sales were made to the best advantage, nor are they short of what was looked for. I was not unaware of the objection to which very light Hhds were subject, & had given warning of it. The error has been occasioned by the...
5To James Madison from William D. Green, 6 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed you have an a/c from Mr. E D Withers with an order for the amount ($10) in my favour—your answer enclosing the amount by return of Mail will be thankfully re’d. By your St RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . William D. Green was a Fredericksburg merchant, who during this period, owned a hat store. He was one of the original incorporators of the Mill Bank Mining Company of Virginia in 1834,...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Moore, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of 2 d proposing to our University the purchase of a mineralogical collection. we do not propose to go in that line further than mere utility, and have already by donations such a collection as we can well proceed on. others are expected, and particularly we count on the future efforts of our own eleves to make the collection what it should be, and enable us to...
7From James Madison to John Henry Sherburne and Nicholas B. Van Zandt, 6 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
J M. presents his respects to Mr Sherburne & Mr. Van Zant, and thanks them for the copy of the “Life of P. Jones” politely sent him. A hasty glance sufficiently shews, that the Vol: contains much well deserving preservation & publication: and he wishes that the result may in every respect prove satisfactory to the Author. Draft ( DLC ). John Henry Sherburne, Life and Character of the Chevalier...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Vidua, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved, dear Sir, your favor of July 24, and congratulate you on your safe return to our Eastern border. I hope you found in the Nat. bridge a compensn for the labor of the visit to it. and the valley thence back to Harper’s ferry will have presented you an interesting country. In answer to your kind enquiries after my health, it continues much as it was when you were here. I...