8551To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21. with the letters returned under the same cover was recd. last night. As you had not then recd. the last letters from Mr. G. & myself on the modified proposal to disuse B. Seamen, I shall wait the arrival of your next before I conclude on the instructions which are to go by the Wash. I find by the accts. from Bermuda, that the mere difficulty which suspends the Treaty is...
8552To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 2 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I return to the Dept. of State the enclosed papers (excepting the private letter from Mr. L) thro’ your hands that you may peruse such of them as may deserve that attention. According to my recollection, the explanation of the Act of Congs. so offensive to Spain, was communicated to Yrujo. As it is possible that I may be mistaken, it may be worth while to enquire into the fact; and if the...
8553From James Madison to William Willis, 1 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To William Willis. 1 July 1806, Department of State. “In answer to your letter of the 27th. June, I have to state, that I have no knowledge of any claim, on your behalf, upon the Spanish Government for several hundred thousand dollars, or any other sum.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.; addressed to Willis at New Bedford.
8554James Madison to Edmund H. Taylor, 26 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 5th inst: It would have given me much pleasure to have aided you in your search for information relative to the military services of your two Uncles; but neither my personal recollections, nor acquired knowledge, put it in my power to do so. In consequence of a like application from Mr. R. H. C. Taylor, I had endeavored in vain to trace thro’ the oldest...
8555From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 23 July 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 20th. and should with pleasure comply with the wish you intimate, but the remnant of my funds in Washington has been so reduced by necessary drafts, that there is little more there than will suffice for a debt I expect daily to be called for, incurred by Payne Todd on my account, in the purchase of a set of 4 if not 5 horses. The purchase has been made, and by the...
8556James Madison to Thomas Bee, 20 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, your letter requesting information as to a particular feature in the University of Virginia. The inclosed copy of its Enactments will furnish that & whatever else relating to the polity of the Institution may be acceptable. In reminding me of your father with whom I was a cotempory member of the Revolutionary Congress, I have an oppy. of expressing as I do wth. pleasure the...
8557From James Madison to the City Council of New Orleans, 23 July 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd:, fellow Citizens, Your act of June 10th. with the sensibility due to the kindness of its expressions towards me personally; and with all the gratification which the just & patriotic veiw it takes of the public welfare, ought to inspire. The peace & plenty which have distinguished our Country, amid the convulsions and calamities forming the general character of the times, and under...
8558From James Madison to Gulian C. Verplanck, 14 February 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with your letter of the 5th. a copy of the “Report to the High School Society of N. York,” for which I return my thanks. No feature in the aspect of our country is more gratifying than the increase and variety of Institutions for educating the several ages & classes of the rising generation, and the meritorious patriotism, which improving on the most improved forms, extends the...
8559To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 26 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received some days ago, but not in time for the last mail, the enclosed petition, I have thought it proper to forward with it a pardon, that in case it should be extended to the party, delay might be avoided. I know nothing more of the convict or of the merits of the petition than are to be gathered from the petition itself and the letter from W. Jones . It is signed, I observe by...
8560From James Madison to Roger C. Weightman, 21 June 1826 (Madison Papers)
I received by yesterday’s Mail your letter of the 14th. inviting, in the name of the Committee of arrangement, my presence at the celebration in the Metropolis of the U.States, of the fiftieth anniversary of their Independence. I am deeply sensible of what I owe to this manifestation of respect on the part of the Committee; and not less so of the gratifications promised by an opportunity of...