1From James Madison to George Joy, 3 April 1795 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 1st. May 1794 was not received by me till it was too late to answer it last fall. I make use of the earliest Spring oppy. to return you my thanks, particularly for the valuable collection of Treaties which was recd. at the same time. The copy for Mr. Jefferson was duly forwarded, and I am desired to make you his acknowledgments also. I find you were right in supposing him not to...
2From James Madison to George Joy, 3 April 1795 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 3 April 1795. Acknowledged in Joy to JM, 10 Aug. 1795 (DLC). Encloses some books, including one by Tench Coxe (probably A View of the United States of America [Philadelphia, 1794; Evans Charles Evans, ed., American Bibliography … 1639 … 1820 (12 vols.; Chicago, 1903–34). Roger P. Bristol, ed., Supplement to Charles Evans’ American Bibliography (Charlottesville, Va., 1970)....
3From James Madison to George Joy, 21 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your communications by Lt. Lewis were safely delivered. This acknowledgment in the lump will in this case save the necessity of one in detail. The Osage has returned nearly in ballast as to political intelligence. The French Govt. was silent as to her decrees, or rather as is reported was making new ones at Bayonne. And the B. Govt. was equally reserved as to its orders, and even as to the...
4James Madison to George Joy, 9 September 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have received your two letters of June 4th & 11th. with their enclosures. The letter to your brother records a touching incident in the life of Lafayette, a life which if history does it justice, will fill some of its most conspicuous & interesting pages. Observing that Mr. Adams had been designated by Congress to prepare an Obituary Memoir of the man so much admired and beloved by our...
5From James Madison to George Joy, 17 May 1792 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the of November has been long in hand, & has remained unanswered till the subject to which it relates should receive some decision from Congress. I now inclose the Act waited for which was almost the last that passed, and refer to it for all the information that can be given. It proceeds on the supposition as the former one did that the Holders of paper will comply with the...
6From James Madison to George Joy, 21 November 1821 (Madison Papers)
I have not forgotten your favor of Feby. last, tho’ I am so tardy in acknowledging it. The truth is, I find as generally happens, that age is daily increasing my disinclination to use the pen, as it possibly may, tho’ I am less sensible of it, an inclination for the other mode of communicating our thoughts. I might find an apology also, in a very afflicting fever of the typhoid character which...
7From James Madison to George Joy, 25 November 1820 (Madison Papers)
I hope you will not infer from the date of this that I am retaliating on the lapse of time between my last, & yours of Mar. 1. which with its inclosures & the Memoirs of Mrs. Huchinson came to hand safely; the former how ever not expeditiously & the latter very tardily. This delay was occasioned chiefly by a misconception between me & the Collector at Norfolk where the 2 vols. were landed and...
8From James Madison to George Joy, 10 November 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 10 November 1804. Described by Joy as dealing with South American claims and having a 23 Nov. postscript (Joy to JM, 26 July 1805 and 2 Jan. 1822 [DLC]).
9From James Madison to George Joy, 15 August 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your several favors, the last bearing date the day of , on the subject of your translation from Rotterdam to Amsterdam; and have expressed to the President the sentiments which my knowlege of your exertions in the cause of your Country, and my friendly dispositions I have entertained towards you, suggested. He has been for a considerable period on a tour along our E. & N....
10From James Madison to George Joy, 22 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I duly recd. your favor of Feby. 10. Not recollecting the precise sentiments which you were induced to communicate first to Mr. Fox and then to Ld. Holland, I can not fully appreciate the step taken. I know only that I felt the dispositions expressed, that I did not look beyond your own perusal of the letter, and that I am entirely persuaded of the laudable motives which governed the use made...