1From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 1 October 1787 (Madison Papers)
I have received & perused with much pleasure the remarks on the proposed Constitution for the U.S. which you have been so good as to favor me with. They cannot fail I think to satisfy the most scrupulous & jealous citizens, that the Act of the Convention, whatever faults it may have in other respects, is not chargeable with a dangerous similitude to real monarchy or Aristocracy. Col. Hamilton...
2From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 26 October 1787 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 21st. instant, and have disposed of the papers under the same cover according to direction. Col. Hamilton had returned to the City which gave me the opportunity of immediately putting into his hands such of them as were destined for him. I have no doubt that he will make the best use of them. I have recd. no answer yet from my correspondent to whom I forwarded...
3From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 3 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
I have been favored with yours of the 28 Ult: and thank you for the paper which it inclosed. Your arguments appear to me to place the subject to which they relate in its true light, and must be satisfactory to the writer himself whom they oppose, if he can suspend for a moment his preconceived opinions. But whether they should have any effect or not on him, they will unquestionably be of...
4From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 20 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 20 January 1788. Mentioned in Coxe to JM, 23 and 27 Jan. 1788 . Reports unfavorable prospects for the Constitution in Massachusetts.
5From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 20 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
I have received and forwarded your letter and pamphlet to Mr. King. The latest information from Boston makes it probable that every aid to the federal cause will be wanted there. The antifederal party have forced such reinforcements in the Insurgents, and the province of Maine which is afraid of creating obstacles to her separation, that there is the most serious reason to apprehend the...
6From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 20 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
I have received and forwarded your letter and pamphlet to Mr. King. The latest information from Boston makes it probable that every aid to the fœderal cause will be wanted there. The antifederal party have found such reinfor⟨ce⟩ments in the Insurgents, and the province of Maine which is afraid of creating obstacles to her separation, that there is the most serious reason to apprehend the...
7From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 30 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
I have been favored with two letters from you, one containing 2 copies of the freeman, the other a pamphlet & letter for Mr. King. The latter will be forwarded this evening, as will also the former which did not arrive in time for the preceding mail. What goes by name of consolidation in Pena. is I suspect at the bottom of the opposition to the New Govt. almost every where; and I am glad to...
8From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 11 June 1788 (Madison Papers)
On my arrival which was the second day of the Convention, I found yours of the ult: the papers contained in which I have disposed of in the manner most likely to be of service. I should have acknowledged the favor sooner; but have not been well since I recd. it, and for several days preceding yesterday was confined to my room with a bilious attack. I am now able to resume my seat in the...
9From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 18 June 1788 (Madison Papers)
No question has been yet taken by which the strength of parties can be ascertained. Each hopes for victory. There will not probably be half a dozen for a majority on either side. I hope & think that if no accident happens the Constitution will carry the point. But when the balance is so extremely nice, it is improper not to mingle doubts with our expectations. A few days will probably decide...
10From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 30 July 1788 (Madison Papers)
I have been much obliged by your favor of the 23 instant, which I have delayed to answer, in the daily prospect of being able to include the decision of Congress on the place for the first meeting of the New Government. This point continues however unfixt. Perhaps it may be brought to an issue to day. From the result of the first question taken on it, the pretensions of Philada. bade fair for...
11From James Madison to Tench Coxe, ca. 20 September 1788 (Madison Papers)
To Tench Coxe. Letter not found. Ca. 20 September 1788 . Acknowledged in Coxe to JM, 26 Sept. 1788 . Discusses the views of the Antifederalists. Refuses Coxe’s request to confide the names of the authors of the individual numbers of The Federalist .
12From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 16 February 1789 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 27th. Ult: has found me so nearly prepared to set out for N. York that I should not have thought it worth while to acknowledge it from hence, were it not for the more speedy rate at which the mail will travel. I am glad to find your calculations for the House of Representatives so favorable. Others which I had seen held out a different prospect in the States North of...
13From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 24 June 1789 (Madison Papers)
Accept my acknowledgments for your favor of the 18th. instant. The printed remarks inclosed in it are already I find in the Gazettes here. It is much to be wished that the discon[ten]ted part of our fellow Citizens could be reconciled to the Government they have opposed, and by means as little as possible unacceptable to those who approve the Constitution in its present form. The amendments...
14From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 18 September 1789 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. was not received till it was too late to be answered by the last mail. I now beg you to accept my acknowledgments for it. The Newspaper paragraph to which it alludes discoloured much the remarks which it puts in my mouth. It not only omits the occasion which produced them, but interpolates personal reflections which I never meant, wch. could not properly be expressed,...
15From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 28 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
I have been some days in debt for your favor of the 21st instant. Accept my thanks for the Medal and copy of your new Constitution inclosed in it. I have delivered to Mr. Jefferson the remarks on a standard of measures, and communicated to him the several other interesting matters which you mention. The former will be disclosed to no one else, but remain in his hands for the purpose intended....
16From James Madison to Tench Coxe, [29 December] 1793 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison presents his respects to Mr. Coxe. He wishes to have a little conversation with him this forenoon or tomorrow if convenient, and will thank Mr C. to name by the bearer an hour at which Mr. M. may wait on him. RC ( PHi : Tench Coxe Papers). Addressed by JM. Docketed, probably by Coxe: “recd. in the Morning of Sunday 29 Decr. 1793—appointed Mr. M. to call at his (Mr. C’s) house this...
17From James Madison to Tench Coxe, [ca. 13 January] 1794 (Madison Papers)
… 1. Of the grain & flour of late years exported to G. B. what proportion was probably consumed there. 2. Is rice or tobo. sent from Portugal or Spain at all to the French or Dutch markets, where no discrimination exists in favor of the American? 3. How far is the British discrimn. in favor of our woods really operative ? 4. In estimating reexports which make a part of any manufactured...
18From James Madison to Tench Coxe, [ca. 13 January 1794] (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison presents his thanks to Mr. Coxe for the paper sent him a few days ago on the subject of sugar, tob. whale oil and rice. Mr. M will be further obliged to him for any aids he may possess toward an elucidation of the amt. of re-exports from G. B. If Mr. Coxe can add brief & early answer to the following queries, Mr. M. will also be sensible of the favor. 1. Of the grain & flour of...
19From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 5 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 5 June 1801. Acknowledged in Coxe to JM, 11 June 1801 . Discusses Jacob Mayer’s recent visit to Washington (see Mayer to JM, 23 May and 1 June 1801 ). The date and contents coincide with a three-page letter from JM to an unnamed correspondent offered for sale by Parke-Bernet Galleries and described by them as including JM’s complaints of ill health, his cryptic discussion of...
20From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 5 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
The infirm state of health in which I came here and the circumstances which crowd into the present moment an unusual quantity of business, have hitherto put it out of my power to attend to the favors of my friends, or even, in your case, to thank you for your kind dispensation on that subject. My health has somewhat mended since my arrival, but it is cheifly so in comparison with the low state...
21From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 29 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
Both your letters of the 16th. inst. have been received. Neither the value of the articles returned in the George Washington nor the circumstance of their being public property recommends their being sold abroad. The best manner of disposing of them will probably be to advertise them for sale at auction and have the advertisement inserted a few times in the New York and Baltimore papers, to...
22From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 22 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 22 October 1803, Department of State . Offered for sale in the Parke-Bernet Catalogue No. 19 (23 March 1938), item 311. Described as a three-page letter that discusses “the commercial clauses in the treaty with England made in 1794 which were to terminate in 1806” and that “comments on the advantages and disadvantages of the treaty, especially in the East Indies.”
23From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 12 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I was duly favored with yours of the 6th. & thank you for the extract relating to Louisiana. It does not add much to the Stock of our information on that subject, but it is well to know all the sources which may strengthen our just pretensions. It seems pretty certain that the title conveyed by the Treaty to the U. S. will reach Eastwardly as far as the river Perdigo. Most of the rumours You...
24From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 1 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 March 1804, Department of State. “On the receipt of the proceeds arising from the sale of the guns and other articles lately made thro.’ Messrs. Pettit and Bayard, you will be pleased to account with and pay over what may remain, after deducting the expenses, to the Treasury.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. This is a clerk’s error for “gums” (see Coxe to JM, 3 Feb. 1804 ,...
25From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 7 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Matthew Cary of Philadelphia has offered to sell to government 400 complete copies of the laws of the United States at one dollar per volume in sheets and thirty one cents in addition for binding. This price appears to be high, and I must therefore request you to cause enquiry to be made whether among the other booksellers they could be furnished for less. If they can and Mr. Cary will...
26From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 28 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 April 1804, Department of State. “I have requested the Secretary of the Treasury to cause two thousand dollars to be remitted to you, that you may be enabled to pay Mr. Carey for his laws as he delivers them. The sum of eleven hundred dollars more will be wanting to complete the contract: it not being however decided whether it can be taken from any existing appropriation, it will be well...
27From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 3 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a copy of the Secretary of the Treasury’s letter to me respecting the laws to be purchased from Mr. Cary. It results from the opinion therein expressed that more than two thousand dollars cannot be expended for that purpose, and if Mr. Cary cannot conveniently wait for the balance until an additional appropriation is made, he must be at liberty to sell the number of copies which that...
28From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 8 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
Of the hundred copies of the laws of the United States intended for Louisiana, you will be pleased to forward seventy five to Governor Claiborne at New Orleans, to be distributed by him in the territory of Orleans and the remaining twenty five to Governor Harrison at St. Vincennes, to be by him distributed in the other section of Louisiana. It will be requisite that a letter from you should...
29From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 8 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 January 1805, Department of State. “I have requested the Secretary of the Treasury to remit $1144, to you, being the additional appropriation to pay for the purchase of 400 copies of the laws made by you. As in this sum is not included the expenses of boxes, porterage &c. they may be charged to the contingent fund of this Department, as may that of sending the laws to Govr. Sevier. To a...
30From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 7th. inst. enclosing a copy of the paper addressed to the President in 1797. Altho’ the questions suggested in it, turn on points, a few of which only, are at present on the Anvil between this Country & G. Britain, they are all of importance in some respects. Are you not mistaken however in supposing that the British Treaty might be offensive to France as...