1291James Madison to Richard Cutts, 26 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 23. The view you give of the proposed transfer of my debt from the Bank of the U. S. to that of the Metropolis shews it to be an eligible arrangement; and I return with my signature the note you enclosed. I am much obliged to Mr. Nourse for his ready aid in the case, and beg you to make him sensible of it. You will insert his name in the note & fill the blank for the...
1292James Madison to Richard D. Cutts, 4 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letter, my dear Richard, gave me much pleasure, as it shews that you love your studies, which you would not do if you did not profit by them. Go on, my good boy, as you have begun; and you will find that you have chosen the best road to a happy life, because a useful one; the more happy because it will add to the happiness of your parents, and of all who love you and are anxious to see...
1293From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 3 May 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of Apl. 29. The discount for the next six months, amounting to $44 77/100 , was remitted some days ago to the Cashier. If I should not previously draw for what is in hand, be so good as to send it, by Mr. P. Barbour on his return from Congs. or by Mrs. Cutts, as the one or the other may give the first opportunity. In the mean time you will oblige me by having ten dollars out...
1294From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 16 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
If I mistake not I have already acknowledged your favor of May 29. which brought the first information of the republican ascendancy in your Legislature. It was little to have been supposed that at this date I should be obliged to repeat that we remain without authentic information of a decisive character from both F. & G. B. This is the fact nevertheless; and it is very questionable whether...
1295James Madison to Richard Cutts, 13 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your two letters of June 8 & 9. As my draft on Mr. Allen lately sent you will have furnished the means of extinguishing my debt to the Bank, I suppress the discounting note inclosed in one of them. It has not been my wish to precipitate the sale of the House & lots in Washington, & hope it may not be necessary. But the hold my Creditors have on my landed property here, exposing me...
1296From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 19 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
The abuses committed occasionally on our vessels & seamen carried to Antigua, where there is a Vice Admiralty Court said to be little disposed to controul them, makes it desireable that a respectable agent should be appointed for that Island. A Mr. Rose has been recommended for this service; and Mr. Gray of Salem, and Mr. Green of Boston have been referred to for a sanction to the fitness of...
1297From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 1 July 1825 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Fowler of Allen’s Lot. & Exc: office holds a note of mine for $500 payable on the 10th. instant. From his letter to me on the subject I infer that the enclosed Check will be a payment not inconvenient to him; and I prefer it to the risk & trouble of remitting bank notes by the Mail. On substituting the check for the promisory note, be so good as to send me the latter in a cancelled State....
1298James Madison to Richard D. Cutts, 12 September 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 5th. instant in which you request my advice on the choice of a profession. Observing your decided bias in favor of the Law, and not dissenting from it, I need only express the pleasure with which find you so determined to aim at success, by distinguished qualifications for it—You will be apprized by better counsellors than I am, that you will have so much to...
1299From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 1 November 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. from Mr. Van Zandt a copy of his Bill in Chancery: of course known to you, and have answered the communicati⟨on⟩ by a letter a copy of which I have thought it proper to inclose you. The errors of fact which it corrects make me hope that I shall be rescued by the explanation from the disagreeable situation in which the Bill places me. With friendly wishes RC ( MHi ); draft ( DLC )....
1300James Madison to Richard Cutts, 2 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I did not receive yours of the 30th. Ult. in time to be answered by the return mail. I now inclose the note sent for my signature, which I hope will not be too late. I cannot but regret the circumstance that threatens to connect me with a Judicial investigation. If the Gentleman bringing be influenced solely by a hope of discovering what he professes to seek, the purport of my letter to Mr....
1301From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 5 May 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. from H. Dearborn an acct. of duties paid for me on wine & brandy arrived at Boston. May I trouble you to convert the inclosed check into a note on that place and forward it to him with a request, that he will keep the articles in his hands, with the exception pointed out to him by Mrs. Madison, till he hears further on the subject. Can any thing be done in the case of Mr. Dalton...
1302James Madison to Richard Cutts, 19 March 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday your favour of the 17th. That of the 4[th?] copied into it never came to hand. The rent you have ready for me (with the exception of $63 to be forward[ed by m]ail) may be placed to my Credit in the Branch Bank of the U.S. in Washington; on which be so good as to send [m]e 2 or 3 blank Checks if there be printed ones. With cordial regards & good wishes. RC (NjP : Crane...
1303From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 30 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of with the pleasure I could not but feel in learning that the accident to your shoulder was so far advanced towards a cure. It is with a very different feeling I am given to understand that any doubt exists as to your coming to Washington this winter, where besides considerations of a public nature, the social ones would be so interesting to us. I shall not give up...
1304From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 13 July 1817 (Madison Papers)
I duly recd. your favor of the 6th. inst. As Mrs Cutts keeps you informed of what relates to herself & the part of her little family with us, I have only to make Mrs. Ms. and my returns to you and the part with you, for the affectionate remembrances you communicate. I am just closing my wheat harvest. It will not exceed 2/5 perhaps not ⅓ of what it would have been if uninjured by the Insect....
1305From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 26 November 1817 (Madison Papers)
Before I left Washington, I authorizd the Editor of the W. City Gazette then a Weekly paper to continue to send it to me, and I believe he was paid the arrears due, & the requisite advance. The paper has lately been converted into a daily & triweekly one, and the former is now sent me. I must ask the favor of you to have it discontinued, and the triweekly paper sent in its place which will...
1306James Madison to Richard Cutts, 24 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
Hearing nothing on the Subject of my answer to the Bill in Chancy. I begin to fear that some miscarriage has taken place or that a throng of business has not left Mr. Jones time to attend to it. Which ever be the cause, time must now be pressing, as I understood from you the Court was to sit in this month. If the adversary in the suit be at all likely to make out a troublesome case, you can...
1307From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 1 September 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favour of Aug. 27. It will be an accommodation to me, & I am glad it will not be inconvenient to the Bank, to indulge me with six months for payment of my note due Novr 4. I am not sure, such have been my past disappointments in receiving several expected payments, that I may not have occasion to avail myself a little further of the accomodating spirit of the Bank. I think...
1308From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 23 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
We are at length about to exchange Washington for Montpelier. The morning after tomorrow is fixt for our departure. The state of our affairs with France may be collected from the printed accts. Some obscurities hang over them as they respect the degree of our commerce with them. The Decrees seem not to be in operation in any sense giving pretext for the refusal of G. B. to revoke her orders in...
1309From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 6 December 1817 (Madison Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to have the inclosed letters forwarded from the Dept. of State. I know not whether Mr. Brent or Mr. Purviance be the most proper hand to commit it to. Mrs. M. intended to accompany this with a letter to her Sister; but puts of[f] writing till the next mail, having nothing more to say now than this will say, that we are well and that you all enjoy affectionate...
1310From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 27 May 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have rcd. your two letters of the 21. & 22d. They came by the same mail. I return the letters inclosed in them. I missed the sale of my flour at the moment most favorable, in consequence of a trip to Charlottesville which I could not avoid, and which prevented the intended trip of Eddins to Fredg. My crop is still on hand, with the exception of a few barrels, which were disposed of before I...
1311From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 8 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving yours of the 25th. Ult: The rancorous opposition in some of the E. States to the war, is peculiarly unfortunate, as it has the double effect of crippling its operations, and encouraging the Enemy to withold any pacific advances otherwise likely to be made. It appears that the B. Cabinet has been forced into a reconsideration of their refusal to repeal the...
1312From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 23 July 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 20th. and should with pleasure comply with the wish you intimate, but the remnant of my funds in Washington has been so reduced by necessary drafts, that there is little more there than will suffice for a debt I expect daily to be called for, incurred by Payne Todd on my account, in the purchase of a set of 4 if not 5 horses. The purchase has been made, and by the...
1313From James Madison to Richard D. Cutts, [ca. June 1826] (Madison Papers)
Your Unkle has reccd. your Elegant & lerned Epistle, & his finger being a little sore at present, he desires me to answer it for him. He says your crop of Tobaco turned out as well as could be expected considering the dryness of weather—he does not dispare that it will weigh 3 ounces—he wants to know whether you’l have it shiped or sold in the country—every body who has seen it admires it very...
1314From James Madison to John Bass Dabney, 2 June 1807 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of April 12 is just received. Enclosed you will find one under a flying seal for Mr. Street, informing him of the revocation of his Vice Consular Commission, and intimating that the papers and documents in relation to his office ought to be delivered over to you. To guard against attempts to avail himself of his Exequatur, until you can obtain its annulment from the Portuguese...
1315From James Madison to William Dabney, 22 January 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 15th. enclosing a right to the use of your invented pump. Having been able to procure a supply of water by pipes from a spring above the level of my & other Dwelling Houses I shall not have occasion, unless the spring shd. fail, or the renewal of the pipes be too expensive, to avail myself of the privilege kindly granted me. I am not the less sensible however of...
1316From James Madison to Lawrence T. Dade, 7 July 1827 (Madison Papers)
The great and affectionate esteem I ever felt for the deceased Revolutionary Patriot whose name I introduced on the 4th. inst: will not permit me to withhold the recollected substance of what fell from me on the occasion. But in complying with your request, I must be allowed to make the general remark, that when I received the invitation of the anniversary celebration, my anticipation was that...
1317James Madison to Lawrence T. Dade and Others, 29 June 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have received, my friends, your letter of the 25. instant, inviting me, in behalf of a portion of the Citizens of Orange, to be a guest at their proposed festive celebration on the 4th. of July. The respect we all feel for that great anniversary would render the occasion of meeting them highly gratifying to me; but the very feeble state to which I am reduced by a tedious indisposition, does...
1318James Madison to Lawrence T. Dade, 23 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of yesterday, on the subject of your application for an office becoming vacant at Washington. I need not assure you Sir that I have always entertained a very sincere esteem for your character, with the best wishes for your welfare, nor remark that I well know of the repeated proofs you have recd. of the public favor & confidence. But I could not comply with the request...
1319James Madison to William Dailey, 20 July 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have received Sir your letter of the 10th. Inst. and would gladly furnish any information favourable to a just claim for Public service, but I have no recollection of the circumstance you mention or of any others which could avail yours. There must indeed be a mistake in relation to the person on whom you called with communications from Govr. Jefferson—durring the period you refer to I was...
1320James Madison to John Daingerfield, 28 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the request in your letter of the 16th. I enclose a certificate in the best form I could give it. If not led into the error that Mrs. Daingerfield was the daughter of Henry Willis I was confirmed in it by the letter of Mr. Taliaferro which named and underscored Henry as her father . Having communicated the request in your letter a few days ago to Mr. Byrd Willis, who...