1Edward Coles to James Madison, 29 March 1828 (Madison Papers)
You will doubtless be surprised to find that I am here. It was my intention to have remained in Illinois until next winter, but circumstances, which I will explain when I have the pleasure of seeing you, induced me very suddenly to change my determination, and to come on by the most direct route to this place. I shall remain here and in NewYork until some time about the first of May, when I...
2Edward Coles to James Madison, 13 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
Payne having failed to come into the City, I went out last evening to see him at the Water works. I found him walking about and to all appearance well. There is no longer any appearance of swelling or bruise, and nothing remains of the hurt but a little soreness, which he said did not prevent him from enjoying a walk, every day for some distance around and about Fair Mount. He told me he was...
3Edward Coles to James Madison, 23 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
It was my intention to have seen or written to you before this. But I was detained in Richd. by a bilious attack, and since my arrival here I have been in daily expectation of a visit from Mr. Stevenson, who promised me to be here, and to accompany me on a visit to you & Mrs. Madison. By this days mail I got a letter from him in which he informed me he should be compelled to postpone his visit...
4Edward Coles to James Madison, 13 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to your request I have paid to the printer of the National Gazette the five dollars you sent him, and enclosed I transmit you his receipt. My sister Stevenson has borne her journey so far better than I expected. Her health has evidently improved since her arrival here. Doctor Physick had left the City before our arrival. She has consulted Doctors Chapman & Dewies, who seem confident...
5Edward Coles to James Madison, 4 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
Soon after leaving you I became sick, & continued so for several weeks--indeed I have not yet entirely recovered, and am still quite feeble. It was my intention to have visited you again before I left Va; but finding that Mr Singleton had left his wife sick, & was extremely anxious to return to her, and to attend to some business in Carolina, I was induced to propose that he should return...
6Edward Coles to James Madison, 16 January 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 8th of Nov: was recd. in due time, and should have been sooner answered, but for my absence from this place, and the expectation, which has been deferred from time to time, of finding the volumes of Franklins works which you requested me to procure. I enquired at the principal Book stores in the City, and of the persons I thought most likely to possess information, without...
7Edward Coles to James Madison, 12 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I send you enclosed two communications of the Governor, & a report of a Committee of the Legislature of Illinois, in relation to the right of the States to the public Lands situated within them. The great interest felt by many Citizens in this and other States in which the U. S. claim the soil, and the apprehension of the consequences which may result from a conflict between the States...
8Edward Coles to James Madison, 1 August 1831 (Madison Papers)
Received of James Madison one hundred and twenty dollars in full of interest on his note up to May 1831. which amount I have entered on the back of the said note— Ms (ICHi) .
9Edward Coles to James Madison, 8 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have been anxious ever since I left you to learn the state of your health. I have heard from Mr. Barbour, Mr. Ingersoll &c &c, that they had heard from you since I left you; but they were unable to furnish me much information, and it has now been some time since I have heard any thing directly or indirectly from you. Mrs. M. was so good as to say she or Payne would write me a line to let me...
10Edward Coles to James Madison, 8 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Thinking it possible, my dear Sir, you may not wish others to see what I am now about to take the liberty of writing to you, and if it should not be entirely agreeable to you that you can the more readily throw it into the fire and think no more of a thing which is known only to you and myself, I am induced to add, on a seperate sheet, that I have frequently thought of what passed in...
11Edward Coles to James Madison, 29 March 1832 (Madison Papers)
My friend Mr Robert C. Winthrop, a son of the Lieut: Governor of Massachusetts, being desirous of seeing Virginia, and particularly anxious to become personally acquainted with you, I take the liberty of introducing him, and his Lady, and Miss Gardner, by whom he is accompanyed, to you and Mrs. Madison I avail myself of this occasion to send you and Mrs Madison a lithographic likeness recently...
12Edward Coles to James Madison, 23 January 1834 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with your request I have procured a copy of Gen: Armstrongs letter to Gen: Jackson, dated July 18, 1814, which, together with the letter enclosing it from the Secretary of War, I herewith transmit you. I have been informed by Mr. Tench Ringgold that he forwarded at the same time to you, Mr. J. Q. Adams, and to Mr Gouverneur the pamphlet containing the review of Mr. J. Q. Adams...
13Edward Coles to James Madison, 17 August 1834 (Madison Papers)
On a recent occasion, when one of the States of the Union promulgated doctrines subversive of the principles of the Constitution, and assumed an attitude which endangered the peace of the Confederation, you stepped forward from your retirement in a manner creditable to your head & heart to correct the aberration, and explain that constitutional Chart of which you had been the chief draftsman....
14Edward Coles to James Madison, 15 September 1834 (Madison Papers)
In returning my thanks, which I do most heartily, for your letter of the 29th ulto, I must be permitted to express my regret that it was not quite as full as I could have wished. Perhaps my apprehension of ill consequences from the late usurpations and abuses of power by the President, & the great confidence I have in the soundness & influence of your opinions, may have led me to expect too...
15Edward Coles to James Madison, 5 October 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 3d. instant enclosing me a Check on the Bank of Virginia at Fredericksburg for $2050. in payment of the principal and interest of the sum borrowed of me. Your Bond for which I return you enclosed—on the back of it you will perceive I have enterd the interest which you have from time to time paid on it. You will also perceive that I have endorsed on it the sum of...
16Edward Coles to James Madison, 22 October 1834 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to my intention, made known to you, I should have deposited the $7. you overpaid me in the Bank to your credit; but having accidentally heard that there was a letter in the Post Office at Fredericksburg for me, I called and received yours of the 8th instant, and in compliance with the request therein contained have brought on with me the seven dollars, and hold them applicable to any...
17Edward Coles to James Madison, 31 October 1834 (Madison Papers)
In returning you my grateful acknowledgements for your highly prized letter of the 15th instant, I cannot refrain, though very reluctant to give you trouble, from making a few remarks in reply, and in explanation of what you call my "one sided view of subjects which ought to be viewed on both sides whatever be the decision on them". In asking your opinion of, and invoking your interposition to...
18Edward Coles to James Madison, 2 March 1835 (Madison Papers)
I should have had this pleasure sooner, but for a severe cold, which confined me to the house for near a week, prevented me calling on Messrs Key & Biddle, agreeably to the request contained in your letter of the 16th ulto. Enclosed I send you their Receipt for your subscription to the American Quarterly Review for the next year. We were much gratifyed to learn that you and Mrs Madison had...
19Edward Coles to James Madison, 2 April 1836 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed letter from Col: Ch: Todd was recd. to day. I have an imperfect recollection of the conversation as well as of the subject alluded to. I have however of certain remarks made by you at the time, & repeated frequently since, respecting Genl. Armstrong’s conduct on recieving the resignation of Gen’l Harrison, and as I have an impression on my mind that you noted the circumstances at...
20Edward Coles to James Madison, 20 April 1836 (Madison Papers)
A few days after the date of my late letter to you, I heard that Gen: Armstrongs Book was in the press at NewYork, & would soon be published. I heard to day that it had been received here, & went immediately in pursuit of it. I have just procured it & hasten to forward it to you, not having taken time to look into it I have only time to return you my thanks for your letter of April 10. and to...