1James Madison to Ferdinand R. Hassler, 25 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. with two copies of your "Elements of Geometry" came to hand when a spell of sickness prevented me from making the proper acknowledgements. I now beg of you to accept them, particularly for the copy allotted to myself. That for the University has been duly forwarded and will there find a better capacity than I possess to do justice to the work. I can only repeat to you...
2James Madison to C. Schultz, 25 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Augst. 9th. was not recd. nor indeed written till the Convention at Charlottesville had dissolved itself. Had it been otherwise, the topics you suggest wd. not have been viewed as within the task for which the members had met For myself, however worthy of attention, your suggestions may be, I have arrived at a period of life which makes it proper that I should leave them to...
3James Madison to Charles Sigourney, 25 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. inst. followed with some interval, by the communications it referred to, found me under a bilious attack from which I am not yet sufficiently restored to health for more than a brief answer. I have not yet read the document in print, but am well prepared to say that I wish success to every <Institutionl> effort that may be judiciously planned for removing from our...