1James Madison to Jesse B. Harrison, 15 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your letter of the 3d. Ult: the contents of which were made known to the Visitors of the University. It was my intention to have acknowledged it before I left the Spot, but the arrangement made for the Chair of Ant: Languages, vacated by Mr Long being one of the very last acts of the Board, it was put out of my power, by the fatigue of a long Session & the hurry of my...
2James Madison to John Andrew Graham, 15 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. the copy of your Memoirs of J. H. Tooke, with which you have been pleased to favor me. Having never entered particularly into the enquiries concerning the authorship of the letters of Junius, I am among those least competent to judge between the Candidates for that celebrity. If you have not established the title of Tooke, you have at least set aside that of some others, and...