771James Madison to Richard Cutts, 6 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a draft on Mr. Allen of Fredericksburg, for $150. which I hope will be in time to extinguish the debt to the Bank, before a renewal of the note and a further call on the friendship of Mr. Nourse, become necessary. Do not fail to make him fully sensible of my thankfulness, for the aid of his name so obligingly furnished throughout the period which made it acceptable. I am recovering...
772James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 6 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
If I have not sooner thanked you for the considerate present in the Box of fruit referred to in your letter of , the apology will I am sure have occurr’d to you. A delay which the Box met with on the way lessened the value of a part of its contents, but not the obligat<ion> felt for the kindness wch prompted <...> the favour. I am regaining, tho’ not rapidly, my health, & strength. I hope the...
773James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 5 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
We are filling out for Richd. 2 Waggons with 4 Hhds. of Tobo. wch. I hope will find a good Market. This neighborhood has been favored with the finest planting season, and if the crops are not generally pitched, it must be owing to a backwardness of the plant beds, which I presume from the late frosting weather has happened in but a few instances, if in any. I ask your attention to the inclosed...
774James Madison to James Monroe, 3 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. yours of the 31st. Ult. inclosing letters recomending Mr J. T. Tracy, and hasten to correct an error you have fallen into which affect[s] the University as well as yourself. It is on the tenth , not the fifteenth of July, that the Visitors are to meet. I address this to N. Y. where you will probably have arrived. It gives us pleasure to find that Mrs. M encounters the...
775James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 30 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
My overseer is so pressed in winding up his late crop of Tobo. for wch. the winter was unfavorable, and in his preparations for the coming one, that he wishes to know whether the market for his lugs will not probably be as good in the Autumn as at this Season. Favor me with the proper information on this point. I have 4 or 5 Hhds to—add to the six at the Warehouse, which I hope with the six...
776James Madison to Joseph Blunt, 29 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. Sir, some time ago your letter of the 8th Ulto accompanied by the 2d. volume of the "American Annual Register;" At a later day, the 1st. vol. was also recd. I am sorry it has not been in my power to give them such a perusal as was my wish. My health has been much interrupted since the opportunity was afforded; and is at present in so feeble a state, that at my advanced age, and with...
777James Madison to David Hosack, 28 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your "Memoir of De Witt Clinton" which I owe to your politeness, found me under the influence of an oppressive indisposition, from which I apprehend a slow recovery. In this feeble state of my health, at my advanced Age, and with arrears of pressing claims on my attention, it is uncertain at least when I shall be able to give the memoir such a perusal as would be agreeable to me....
778James Madison to William Allen, 19 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letter communicating the sale of my flour was duly recd. but could not be sooner acknowledged. However short of our hopes I am sure that you have acted for the best; and it is quite propable that it has ended for the best. I thank you sir for your obliging managment of the business throughout and will now request that you will let me see the balance at my disposal—Oblige me by a further...
779James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 9 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
Yours of Apl. 28 came duly to hand and I thank you for the attention given to mine which it answered. Do me the further favor to pay Mr. Ritch[ie] the annual advance for the Enquirer, due about this time. The enclosed note for it was left with me at my request, by one of the Collect[ors] for that paper, & will do for the receipt. My overseer tells me he must pause in Sending down my Tobo. for...
780James Madison to John Hartwell Cocke, 8 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
I did not learn till a few days ago, that you had sufficiently got over your reported illness at Norfolk, to return home. I hope your health is now good & will continue so. I inclose an extract from a letter recd. from Mr. Long some time ago, which shews that we cannot rely on a successor from England to the Chair he filled in the University; that he strongly recommends Doctr. Harrison for it:...