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The inclosed Address was voted unanimously and contains, I believe, the genuine Sentiments of...
We are told that Genl Person the bell Weather of Opposition in this State continues indefatigable...
I have been favored with yours of the 8th. Instant and thank you for the notice you take of my...
We have heard much of the di[s]agreement between the two Houses respecting titles and the rules...
Letter not found. 28 May 1789. Calendared in the lists probably kept by Peter Force (DLC: Madison...
… As far as a momentary consideration has enabled me to judge, I see nothing exceptionable in the...
I have had the pleasure to receive your favour of the 5th of may, with the report of the...
… I hope the idea of titles is sent to eternal repose. I know nothing which in my judgment would...
My private acquaintance with you would by no means warrant a correspondence of this kind, but the...
I have not heard from you for a long time but often hear of you. All ranks of people within my...
We have nothing in this quarter worth mentioning or I should more frequently make communications....
Our personal acquaintance having been hitherto cursory I can claim no great Share of a...
As the Communications herewith enclosed will not take much time to Read; As there are matters...
I wrote you some time since, informing you that as exchange was higher with you, than here, that...
Upon my return home the other day after the close of the Chancery term, I found a letter from you...
Permit me to congratulate you upon the adoption, & organization, of the Federal Constitution, a...
Letter not found. 15 June 1789. The list probably kept by Peter Force (DLC: Madison Miscellany)...
Your Favor of the 4th. of June reached me yesterday. I am conscious that you have little leizure....
I observe by the public Prints, that the Bill for the Establishment of the Impost has returned...
I observe you have brought forward the amendments you proposed to the federal Constitution. I...
My last to you was of May 11. Yours of Mar. 29. came to hand ten days ago: and about two days ago...
Letter not found. 18 June 1789. Calendared in the lists probably kept by Peter Force (DLC:...
Desperate must be His circumstances—and Credulous the Man, who forsakes His Country & friends, to...
Yours I recd. for which I thank you and am happy to hear that the Members of your honorable body...
I was very happy to learn that you had dismissed the first reported bill for the collection of...
I thank you for the copy of the amendments proposed to the constitution which you lately inclosed...
Your very obliging Letter of the 11th May has been received some time past, and I thank you for...
You will be pleas’d to accept my thanks for the Journals receivd a few days since by mr. Hopkins,...
Letter and enclosure not found. 29 June 1789. Calendared in the lists probably kept by Peter...
I thank you sincerely for several letters, which my vagrant life between this place and Richmond...
The Post Master at Peters burg informed me on this Day Week that a Letter in your Hand for me had...
I arrived a few days past from Wilmington, and had an opportunity of hearing the sentiments of a...
Yours by Mr. Hopkins with the journal inclosed has been received and the journals as you desired...
… The question concerning the power of removing Officers was important, and twas much better to...
It is better to be late in thanking you for your Present of Tobacco by Mr Delany than not to do...
I had the pleasure of receiving your Letters of the 21st and 22d. of June by the last post and...
Engaged as you are in business of the greatest importance as well as difficulty, and harrass’d by...
You will doubtless be much surprised at an Obtrusion so unexpected, and from one who much [ sic ]...
Mr. Christopher Roane, who is a searcher at City Point, requests to be introduced to you. He...
I have erased the names of my Brothers between whom the above Letter passed, to leave you at...
You informed me some time ago, that there remained in your hands a balance of some money due Mr....
Your favor advising of the passage of the tonage & impost bills by both houses I have recd. It...
I am told, that within these few days a considerable quantity of Madeira wine has been run into...
As many of the public offices are about to be disposed of, may I crave the favour of your...
It is but within a Day or two that I recieved yours of the 14th. in which you very properly leave...
My last to you was of the 18th. of June. Within a day or two after, yours of May 9. came to hand....
I this morning received your favor of the 15th. In my letter of yesterday, I gave you a faithful...
I was favoured a few days ago, with your Letter of the 12th. of July, which evinced the just...
Being desirous from a variety of reasons mostly of a private na[ture] to change my residence, &...
I have lately made a tour of the district of Kentucky & am very much pleased with the face of the...