13501James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 10 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 5th. and thank you for your kind interposition with the Bank in my behalf. It is much my wish to discharge my engagements to it: and assurances & prospects from my debtors have kept me in hopes of being able to do so. Thus far however, they have not been fulfilled; and unfortunately, bad managements added to bad seasons, have deprived my crops of the expected results....
13502James Madison to John Hartwell Cocke, 12 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 5th. has just come to hand, and embarrasses me a little as to the course by which I should best consult the views of the Visitors, in relation to an appointment of Mr. Ritchie at once to the vacant Chair of Nat: Philos:. Mr Johnston as you know is against any appointments in the recess of the Board, and I find by a letter from Mr. Cabell who writes from Washington that he adheres...
13503William Jones to James Madison, 12 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 26 Ulto covering duplicate letters directed to our Chargé d’Affaires in London, one of which has gone in the Ship London Packet, Benedict Master, cleared on the 6th inst, and the other will go by the Ship Thames, expected to clear on the 25th inst. These are the only vessels destined for London since the receipt of yours. Most respectfully and truly yours RC...
13504James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 13 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
Col Preston is desirous of exchanging the office he holds at Richmond for that lately vacated by the death of Doctr. Tu[cker] & it is his wish that I should be in the number of his friends who bear testimony to the public services & personal qualities on which his pretensions are grounded. Tho anxious to avoid such intrusions, I can not in justice to Col. P. withold the observat[ion] that his...
13505James Madison to John Finch, 13 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 1st. inst: & with it a copy of your "Essay on the effect of the physical Geography of the World on the boundaries of Empires:" The views taken of the subject are interesting, and some of them with the additional merit of originality, and I thank you Sir, for the communication of them. On turning from the past to the future speculation may be invited to the...
13506James Madison to James Maury, 13 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of March 31st. and hasten to give the information you request. Mr. John Walker the lawyer to whom you allude, is still living in the adjoining County at a very advanced Age. He has long been well known to me as he was to my father, and has always been regarded as of the strictest probity, and in every respect a most worthy character. He is not affluent, but in very...
13507James Madison to James P. Preston, 13 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by the last mail yours of the 9th. and comply with its request by a few lines to the President for the mail of today. I could not refuse this evidence of my esteem & regard, tho’ it is an interposition, of which obvious considerations make me as sparing as possible. Being entirely ignorant of the names with which yours will be in competition, I can form no estimate of the result. With...
13508James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 13 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
Perceiving that I am indebted to you for a copy of the Report to the Senate relating to the "Colonization of persons of Colour", I return the thanks due to your politeness. The Document contains much interesting matter, and denotes an able hand in the preparation of it. I find it more easy, however, to accede to its conclusion agst. the power claimed for Congress, than to some of the positions...
13509William Emmons to James Madison, 13 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
The Hon R. M. Johnson has this moment handed me $ 5 for the Fredoniad and your letter which I have persused with great delight—My Brother Doct Richard Emmons will be more than happy to find that you have honoured him with the purchase of a Copy of his poem—I should have presented you with a Copy of the work as a token of my sense of your exalted merit—But indigent circumstances & a debt yet...
13510Richard M. Johnson to James Madison, 13 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have red, your favour of the 9th. & have already handed to Mr Emmons the 5 $ you were so kind as to Send him I was very reluctant that he should trouble you as he did as I fear you are often interrupted in that way. But the peculiar merits of the author who now lives in 2 miles of me in Keny. induced me to permit Mr Emmons to use my name in his Communication to you. It is the fondest wish of...