181291From James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 20 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your Message to Congress transmitted under your cover, having arrived during an absence at our University from which I am but just returned, a regretted delay has taken place in acknowledging the favor. I now offer my thanks for it, with an expression of the due sense I have of the increased interest given to the topics embraced in the Communication, by the eloquent and impressive...
181292From James Madison to Chester Bailey, [ca. 20 December 1826] (Madison Papers)
I recd. some days ago your friendly communication of the 7th. I regret the continuance of circumstances wch. suggested it. I hope you will be satisfied with the footing on which I have put your claim for the arrears due from J.P.T. Inconsiderable as the amount may be thought, such have been the failures of my crops & the prices for them for a series of years, & such the utter failures of...
181293Promissory Note to Chester Bailey, 20 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I promise to pay to Chester Bailey or order, on or before the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, six hundred dollars with interest thereon from October 23. 1826. in discharge of a note of that date and for that amount, from J. Payne Todd to the said C. Bailey, and by his endorsement, assigned to me. RC (owned by Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Sang, Chicago, Ill., 1958)....
181294From James Madison to George Tucker, 20 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
In fulfilment of my promise I send you Dr. Coopers Lectures on Political Economy. I do not wish to hurry a return of the volume, But having not yet had leisure to look over it, It will suit me to have it again, after you have made yourself as much acquainted with its contents, and as much at your leisure, as you chuse. The talents and information of the Author, never fail to throw light on...
181295From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 21 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I send you the commencing paragraph for the Report of the Board of Visitors, which in a more hasty draft had a sanction at the moment of our separation. I thought it best, to lose no time in enabling you to compleat the Report, that none may be lost in forwarding it to its destination, and I trust I shall have the pleasure of receiving it from your own hand rather than thro’ the mail. Health &...
181296From James Madison to William S. Nicholls, 22 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
When, in answer to yours of April 14, I intimated that I could not conveniently anticipate the payment of my note in your hands, it was not on⟨ly⟩ my purpose to be punctual at its maturity, but I relied with entire confiden[ce] ⟨on⟩ the allotted means. It is with serious concern, the more so as the occur⟨re⟩nce is so new to me, that I am under the necessity of disappointing a creditor. I had...
181297To James Madison from St. George Tucker, 22 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I wrote to you from Richmond about a month ago, and enclosed you a fragment of the Journals of our house of Delegates, at one Session within the period mentioned in your note by Mr. Cabell, which I found in one of my Books in possession of Mr. Coalter. I now do myself the pleasure to enclose you another Fragment, which I found a few days ago, of the Journals of that house in 1784–5, together...
181298To James Madison from William Wertenbaker, 22 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I am directed by the Faculty to enclose to you a copy of their proceedings lately had, upon information given them by the Proctor that some of the Hotel keepers have been in the habit of playing at games of chance with the Students of the University, and also send you all the evidence which they have collected upon the subject. I am with profound Respect Your Obe Humbe. Servt RC and enclosures...
181299From James Madison to William Crawford, 23 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
On my return from a visit to our University I recd your letter of the 10th. If I commend your zeal on a subject you deem both just & important, I must regret that you ascribe to my opinion on it, an influence wch experience does not warrant; and that you cast your eye on one only of the grounds on which I declined an interposition. The other, my advanced stage of life, and the appropriation of...
181300From James Madison to St. George Tucker, 23 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
Your very kind communication of Novr. 22. came duly to hand, and I am particularly thankful for your attention to the wish intimated thro’ Mr. Cabell. It was a sight of the Legislative Journals of 1784–5.6.7. that I had occasion for; and unless the Vols. No. 4 or 5, contain extracts for some of those years, the trouble of sending them would be without avail. It is not surprizing, because so...
181301From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 24 December 1826 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 15th. instt. has been duly received. I s till hope that your Account to the first of October will be received by me before the close of the year; and that the next, that is, your Account for the present Quarter will be made up and forwarded to me at the day. On the first of January, you will pay to my brother, the sum of 315 dollars, and take from him a receipt in following...
181302To James Madison from William Matthews, 24 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
The Visitors of the University not having come to any definitive resolutions on the subject of a Military School at that Institution, I on account of the Facultys permitting me to act in the capacity of Military Instr: make the following proposition to the Rector, soliciting his recommendation of the scheme, in such a manner as to find the probability of its success. The Military School which...
181303From James Madison to Thomas Cooper, 26 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
The two copies of your Lectures on Political Economy forwarded with your letter Novr. 15. were duly recd. That for Mr. Eppes was delivered to Mr. Trist of the Monticello family who said he could send it on forthwith by a safe conveyance. For the other addressed to myself, I offer my thanks. Before I had time to look into the volume, I had an opportunity of handing it over to Professor Tucker,...
181304To John Jay from Peter Van Schaack, 27 December 1826 (Jay Papers)
Let me break in upon your retirement with the wish of a happy New Year, and that it may be attended with every blessing, which life, transitory as it is, can bestow—and in this wish I comprehend every branch of your family.— The return of this season habitually brings the recollection of days long since past, of youthful attachments, and more mature connexions dissolved, as well as of the few...
181305From James Madison to John Hartwell Cocke, 27 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. the inclosed papers from the University. They give a sad account of the Hotel Keepers. Not recollecting the exact relation in which these are placed by the last enactment to the several Authorities above them, I can not decide well on what may be required from the Executive Committee. Be so good as to favor me with your ideas on the whole subject. In every view, delays must...
181306From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 27 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I leave the inclosed open that you may see the papers relating to the Hotel Keepers. Should Genl. Cocke, unexpectedly at this season, be in Charlottesville, be so obliging as to have the letter put into his hands; in the contrary event, into the proper mail. I inclose for you Mr. Brokenboroughs report to be assorted with the other documents accompanying that to go from the Rector; on which I...
181307From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to George Washington Adams, 28 December 1826 (Adams Papers)
What! a letter from George I cried when your father put your last epistle in my hand yesterday afternoon? I was surprized for I thought that you ceased to wish to keep up any thing like friendly intercourse with your family and to feel that I was not altogether forgotten in the solitude of my chamber did occasion my heart to spring with joy. I am delighted to observe by the tone of your Letter...
181308From James Madison to William T. Barry, 30 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd the copy of your Eulogy on Adams Jefferson & Shelby; and I can not return you my thanks without alluding to the particular value given to it by facts which it records; as well as to the additional interest it derives from the glowing patriotism which pervades it. May I remark at the same time that it has not escaped circumstancial errors which will probably be corrected by a...
181309From James Madison to James Hamilton Jr., 30 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
About the close of the last Session of Congs. I recd. from you a Copy in pamphlet form of your Speech on the Panama Mission. It being for some time thereafter uncertain where you would be found, my acknowledgments for the favor were neglected. If not too late, I beg leave now to offer them. The subject appears to have been very ably discussed on both sides; and your views of it, are to be...
181310From James Madison to St. George Tucker, 30 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
Since I made my acknowledgments for your favour from Richmond, I have recd. that from Williamsburg, with other printed sheets from your Vols. of political papers. With my thanks for a ⟨sight⟩ of the latter, I now return them for the places to which they belong. The former sheet, being understood to be a duplicate in your collection, I take the liberty of retaining it, with the purpose of...
181311From James Madison to Levi Woodbury, 30 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, under your cover the speech you delivered in the Senate of the U.S. 11th. of Apl. last, on the Judiciary Bill. Without undertaking to weigh & compare the considerations urged on different sides of the subject, I may safely say that you maintained that which you espoused with an ability & force which did justice to it. With my thanks for your polite attention, and apology for...
181312To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 30 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
The first thing to be done after the adjournment of the Board, was to make up the record & copy off all those long enactments of Mr Johnson. This I commenced on the succeeding day, & was occupied by, pretty closely, till the Thursday ensuing. Then I went immediately, to the university, where Mr Lomax & myself commenced our joint labours of digesting the enactments, which we got through by...
181313From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 31 December 1826 (Adams Papers)
May the blessing of God, whose justice is remembered at the close of your last Letter rest upon you through the year about to commence, and many more, as long as it shall be his pleasure that you live upon earth, and then follow you to a better world. Your Letter and scrap of the 22d. and 23d. have brought up tolerably well the arrears of your correspondence with me, excepting that I am still...
181314Independence and Constitution of Virginia, [1827?] (Madison Papers)
[1827?] Although the date when JM prepared this manuscript must remain uncertain, it could well have been written in the autumn of 1827, during his exchange of letters with George Mason’s grandson about the Virginia Declaration of Rights and first Form of Government, and at a time when a revision of the state constitution was much in the public mind. The manuscript has considerable unity of...
181315To James Madison from Thomas Law, [ca. January 1827] (Madison Papers)
Mr Law takes the liberty of submitting to Mr. Madisons perusal, a little pamphlet which is the key to a greater one, which may perhaps be posthumous. He trusts that it will amuse, if it does not give a higher satisfaction. Should it afford a moments Pleasure to Mr. Madison who rendered such active services to his Country by his essential aid in forming the Constitution, Mr Law who receives...
181316To James Madison from James H. Causten, 1 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
Under the countenance of the Gentlemen signers to the enclosed letter, purporting to be a list of the Baltimore sufferers from the depredations therein mentioned, many of whom are your personal freinds, I take the liberty to introduce myself as the general agent of all the claimants in the United States. And as such, to execute the duty imposed on me, which I perform with great pleasure, of...
181317From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 3 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your indisposition mentioned in yours of the 30th. ult: just come to hand gives me the more concern as I fear it has been increased, if not occasioned by an overexertion to hasten the Report for Richmond. The delay is sufficiently explained by the tediousness of the preparatory task, to say nothing of the obstacles in the severity of the season: and were despatch, of more importance than it...
181318To James Madison from St. George Tucker, 4 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
Since I wrote to you last, I have had the pleasure of recieving both of your favours of the 23d. & 30th. of December, with the Enclosures in the last, and am very sorry I was not able to furnish you any further Information from the Journals in my possession, than what I had before transmitted from Richmond: nor can I now find any thing further on the subject. It is much to be regretted that...
181319To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 8 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
My indisposition was of short duration: Dr Dunglison’s prescription dispelling the fever & other unpleasant circumstances with which it was attended, in three or four days. So that on the thursday succeeding, the weather having moderated, I was enabled to go out. The printing, I am sorry to say however, goes on not very rapidly; at least had not done so last week. Mr McKennie told me that he...
181320From James Madison to James H. Causten, 9 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 1st. inst: relating to the claims on the U.S. founded on their release of France from claims on her with the several documents to which it refers. Having long withdrawn my attention from such subjects, I should under any circumstances feel a reluctance in recurring to them. At my very advanced period of life, with other demands on its scanty remnant...