From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 13 September 1827
To Nicholas P. Trist
Montpellier, Sepr 13. 1827
Dear Sir,
This will be handed to you by Mr. George Washington,1 a nephew of Mrs. Madison, who being with his wife & his mother Mrs Todd on a visit to us, indulges his curiosity by one to the University, and will probably mark his respect for the spot where we understand you will now be found, by a ride to it. He is an Eleve of the University of Transylvania, and tho’ a married man but a short time out of it. Be so good as to spare him half an hour of your kind attentions. Accept for yourself & all around you, our joint & cordial salutations
(signed) James Madison
FC (DLC: Nicholas P. Trist Papers). Docketed by Trist in the left margin: “The original given to Mr. S. M. Felton for his daughter NPT. June 23. ’62.”
1. George Steptoe Washington Jr. (1806–31), the son of Dolley Madison’s sister, Lucy Payne Washington Todd, married Gabriella Augusta Hawkins of Frankfort, Kentucky (Mattern and Shulman, Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 414).