11To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 30 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I beg your excuse for the liberty I take in covering the two enclosed letters to your address. Since I have been here I have had the injudicious medical treatment I sustained at Washington corrected; and by the change of air and use of exercise there is a flattering expectation of my being restored to even better health than I formerly had. It is at present faulty only in the appetite, which...
12To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
I am Sorry that another unexpected obstacle is likely still longer to retard the departure of the Tunisians. The Secretary of the Navy has forwarded letters of the 13th. of which the enclosed copies were furnished only yesterday. An indemnity for the annulling of the debentures by Shifting the cargo would be a mere form; and if no Treasury arrangement could dispense with the inconvenience...
13To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 12 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
I very much regret the accident, which retarded the dispatches from France. Upon the enquiry I made, after the receipt of your favor of the 4th. it appeared that they had been detained in the Georgetown Post office, from the monday on which they should have been forwarded to the succeeding friday, by the mistake of the Postmaster. All the letters and packets I made up for the mail on the...
14To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 11 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 6th. inst. and enclose an answer for Mr. Wigginton. Mr. Lee’s statement accompanies it. If Mr. W. be innocent, it is necessary to suppose that his assurance to the latter was founded on a fraud of which he was made the dupe himself, and that his privity in the corrupt agreement, by drafting it, is falsly testified by Erving and the broker. Mr. Lee on a former...
15To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
Observing that the newspapers are circulating a imperfect account of the law-case of Baring vs. Christie, I take the liberty of referring you to it entire in 5th. East’s rep. 398, and at the same time to enclose a note I made some time ago, with a view to the extent of the operation of the exception to the passport, under present circumstances. The tenuity of this exception is such, as, in my...
16To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 15 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your favor of the 9th. Mr. Newman, mentioned in the memorandum it contained, is living at the place described viz. at the Grange near Port Tobacco. It was on his return from a visit to that gentleman (whose wife is a Rhode-Island lady) that Mr. Ellery was attacked by Mr. Rutledge. I have communicated to Mr. Newman the nature and manner of the enquiry, and in your name...
17To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 26 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
The three Captains, whose protests against L’Eole are herewith, came from Annapolis a few days ago to lay their complaint before you. They told me, that her commander set off for Baltimore shortly after their arrival at the former place without giving them an opportunity of demanding compensation, and that none was offered. I advised them to return to their vessels and proceed to the several...
18To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, [ca. June 1806] (Madison Papers)
Views of improving my circumstances having led me to the purpose of retiring from Washington by the first of next October, it is due both to propriety and to my sentiments towards you, to apprise you thus early of my intention. I have the honor to be, Dr. Sir, with great respect, Your most obed. servt. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . Undated; dated 1806 in the Index to the James Madison Papers....
19To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 11 August 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Jacob Wagner. 11 August 1806. “There having been no indication against my opening the enclosed [not found], it was impossible to avoid it. It will therefore be best that it should seem to have been opened by yourself.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.; marked “(Private)”; docketed by JM .
20To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 24 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I was duly honored with your favor of the 15th. and another since received from Mr. Hooper. I am sorry it was not in my power to aid him in drawing the money from the southward, as the arrangements of the Paymaster General and Quarter-master General did not admit of their accommodating him, and as no other branch of Government, as I can learn, stand in need of funds there. Agreeably to your...