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25 June 1810, New York. Encloses a letter and a parcel for Dolley Madison. RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Enclosures not found.
Under a full impression of the impropriety of trespassing on the valuable time of your Excy. & aware that it too frequently happens you are troubled with trivial applications we hope you will pardon us while we briefly state to you the reasons which have induced us to adopt the resolutions, a Copy of which we have now the honor to enclose. It cannot have escaped the knowledge of your...
26 June 1810, Sapelo Island. Apologizes for troubling JM again about his manuscript, which he fears has been lost. Mentions that he heard about three weeks ago that there was a letter addressed to him from JM [not found] in the post office in McIntosh County. Begs JM to instruct the postmaster general to locate the manuscript and forward it to Charles Harris at Savannah. RC and translation (...
Your letters of the 8th. 15th. & 22d. are now to be acknoleged. I should consider the debt to mr. Hooe as made incumbent on us by the wish of our Donor, and shall chearfully acquiesce in any arrangement you make on that subject. I have accordingly suspended sending for my portion till further information from you. Dougherty’s bill shall be duly attended to. I have recieved a copy of Judge...
Your letters of the 8 th 15 th and 22 d are now to be acknoleged. I should consider the debt to mr Hooe as made incumbent on us by the wish of our Donor, and shall chearfully acquiesce in any arrangement you make on that subject. I have accordingly suspended sending for my portion till further information from you. Dougherty’s bill shall be duly attended to. I have recieved a copy of Judge...
29 June 1810. Declares he is a friend to JM and the administration but fears that JM’s confidence has been abused by “a set of political earwigs.” Criticizes JM’s appointments of Buckner Thruston and Benjamin Howard on the grounds that it is wrong for the executive to remove men from Congress by naming them to office. The executive should respect the separation of powers and not touch men in...
At the instance of the Honorable Stephen Van Rensselaer and several individuals of the New York Historical Society, I have been induced to undertake, and have now compleated the Translation of Dr Van Der Donk’s Natural and Topographical History of New-Netherland. As that gentleman comprehends under the appellation of New-Netherland, the States, lying between the great South and North rivers,...
Your approbation is among my highest pleasures, especially of my actions, which are in the fullest consent with my purest convictions, & with assurances of the best consequences. Having lately had an interview with Gen. Stark, at his home in Derryfield, I thought it would not be displeasing to you to hear from him. I reached his house on 31 May, after having spent the morning with Col...
Inclosed, I forward You the copy of a letter from one of the most opulent inhabitants of West Florida. This letter, together with a personal knowledge of many of the inhabitants of that Province, impresses me with a strong belief, that a revolution of some kind may be attempted in that country, before a great while. It has been suggested to me from other sources, that two plans have been...
4 July 1810, Williamsburg. Reports a rumor of the death of Judge Cyrus Griffin and suggests St. George Tucker for the vacancy. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Tucker”). 2 pp. Nelson was a judge of the General Court of Virginia, 1791–1813 ( PJM William T. Hutchinson et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (1st ser., vols. 1-10, Chicago, 1962-77, vols. 11-17, Charlottesville,...