1301From James Madison to Peter Baynton, 31 March 1791 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison has just recd. the inclosed letter under cover of one from Virginia. If Mr. Baynton wishes to have an answer conveyed, Mr. Madison offers his service for the purpose. He will have an opportunity in two or three days, probably on sunday or monday. RC ( WHi ). Addressed by JM. A clipped signature has been attached at some later time. Peter Baynton (1754–1821), a former postmaster of...
1302From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 22 October 1824 (Madison Papers)
I return the note Mr. Smith was so good as to prepare, with my name to it. Whatever else may be requisite now or hereafter from me, you will let me know. With Friendly respects RC ( MHi ). Below this signature are a number of computations which relate to JM ’s bank loan for the purchase of the Cutts’s house in Washington. The amount ($1,437.50) was for one year’s payment: 1437.50 172.44 3...
1303From James Madison to John Armstrong, 15 August 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ To John Armstrong. Letter not found. 15 August 1806. Acknowledged in Armstrong to JM , 24 Dec. 1806 ( DNA : RG 59, DD , France, vol. 10), and described in Jacob Wagner to JM , 15 Aug. 1806 , as having to do with the case of Benjamin Stoddert and John Mason.
1304From James Madison to John Armstrong, 27 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 27 May 1804. Acknowledged in Armstrong to JM, 2 June 1804 , as an offer of appointment as U.S. minister to France and a suggestion, should Armstrong accept the commission, that he visit Washington before sailing to France.
1305From James Madison to James Monroe, 20 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
You will receive with this all the communications claimed by the actual & eventual posture of our affairs in the hands of yourself & Mr. Livingston. You will find also that the Spanish Govt. has pretty promptly corrected the wrong done by its Officer at N. Orleans. This event will be a heavy blow to the clamorors for war, and will be very soothing to those immediately interested in the trade...
1306From James Madison to Naphtali Phillips, 20 July 1827 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects to Mr. Phillips, informs him that the date asked for in his letter of the 9th. inst. is March 5. 1751. RC (Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc., Chicago, Ill., 2008; http://www.alincolnbookshop.com ).
1307From James Madison to John Dawson, 7 April 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 7 April 1794. Acknowledged in Dawson to JM, 14 Apr. 1794 ; mentioned in JM to Jefferson, 14 Apr. 1794 . Encloses newspapers with accounts of the diplomatic correspondence that Washington submitted to Congress on 4 Apr. Asks Dawson to have JM’s letters to Jefferson taken out of the Richmond post office and forwarded privately to Monticello, since the mail has ceased to move...
1308From James Madison to Peter Muhlenberg, 28 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 May 1804, Department of State. “I have shipped to your care sundry boxes, mentioned in the enclosed receipt [not found], and containing Volumes of the Laws of the United States, addressed to the Governors of many of the States. I pray you to forward them as opportunities may serve and pay the freight from Philadelphia to their destination, keeping an account of it, which shall be reimbursed...
1309From James Madison to Robert Patton, 8 August 1813 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 August 1813. Mentioned in Robert Patton to JM, 11 Sept. 1813 , as enclosing a check for $100 “for the use of James M Macon.”
1310From James Madison to William Lattimore, 15 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 December 1803, Department of State. “The Secretary of State presents his respects to Dr. Lattimore and encloses him a Note made by the Secretary of War [not found] respecting the questions contained in the Doctors letter of the 7th. inst. [not found]. With respect to the first of those questions, if a further elucidation should be requisite, the Secretary of the Treasury may prehaps [ sic ]...
1311James Madison to Aaron Vail, 3 February 1834 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of ——— was duly received, and the enclosed paper complies with the request which it makes. With friendly respects and good wishes, Printed in Writings of James Madison (Congressional edition),vol. 4, page 568.
1312From James Madison to George Nicholas, 23 January 1789 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 23 January 1789 . Acknowledged in Nicholas to JM, 24 Jan. 1789 . Reports prospects for his election. Encloses a copy of his remarks on Jefferson’s draft constitution ( Observations on Jefferson’s Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, ca. 15 Oct. 1788 and n.). Requests Nicholas to deliver his letter of 21 Jan. 1789 to John Brown .
1313From James Madison to George Washington, 20 October 1785 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 20 October 1785. In a letter of 29 October from Washington to JM he refers to JM’s “favor of the 20th.” with an enclosure, which contained suggestions of a suitable form for Washington’s letter to the General Assembly requesting the donation to some public institution of the Assembly’s gift of canal shares to Washington.
1314From James Madison to Pierre Landais, 4 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
In answer to your letters of the 6th. of March last, & the 2 d. instant, I have the honor to observe that if the subject you propose to present anew to Congress, should require any further communications from the Department of State, it will be agreeable to the usual & proper course, that it should appear so to them, and that the communications should be made in conformity to a resolution...
1315From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 26 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 January 1804. Acknowledged in Lear to JM, 7 May 1804 (DNA: RG 59, CD, Algiers, vol. 7, pt. 1), and described in the enclosed diary’s 26 Apr. 1804 entry as containing his commission as consul general at Algiers, his commission to negotiate a peace with Tripoli, pamphlets on Louisiana, and newspapers.
1316James Madison to Edward Coles, 8 October 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have just received your letter of the 5th. with the Bond enclosed in it, and catch a fugitive opportunity of requesting by the Mail, that the small balance, may remain in your hands, applicable to some small object in Phila. Accept our joint wishes that health and happiness may attend you both; with our regret that we could not have the pleasure of personally expressing them. RC (NjP :...
1317From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 1 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 1 May 1805 . Calendared in the index to the State Department notes to foreign legations as “enclosing an Exequatur &c &c” ( DNA : RG 59, Notes to Foreign Ministers and Consuls, vol. 1).
1318From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Yours by Mr. Chisolm was duly handed to me. I shall look for you & Mr. Barlow on wednesday, & for the pleasure of your company at dinner. Among the papers herewith inclosed is a letter from Mr Hackley of late date, and a Spanish documt. confirming the victory over Dupont. The letter from Graham mentions the disaster at the Capitol, of which it is probable you will have had a more particular...
1319From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 7 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
Be pleased to cause fifteen thousand dollars, from the fund for foreign intercourse, to be remitted to Sir Francis Baring & Co., the Bankers of this Department in London. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
1320From James Madison to Edward Carrington, 7 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 7 January 1788. Acknowledged in Carrington to JM, 18 Jan. 1788 . Reports foreign news, including “the Memorials of France & England.”
1321From James Madison to Richard Taylor, ca. May 1795 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. May 1795, Orange. Acknowledged in Taylor to JM, 11 July 1795 . Mentioned in JM to James Madison, Sr., 13 Mar. 1796 . Delivered by Mr. Bennett. Reports on the health of friends and relatives in Virginia. Inquires about Kentucky lands owned by JM and Nelly Conway Madison, Ambrose Madison’s daughter.
1322From James Madison to John Francis Mercer, 24 January 1785 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 24 January 1785 . Mercer acknowledged on 8 February 1785 receipt of “your favor of the 24. which pursuing me by a circuitous route, did not reach this untill within a few days.” In all likelihood JM reported to the Virginia congressman the legislative situation following adjournment of the October 1784 session of the General Assembly.
1323From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 2 November 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 2 November 1804. Calendared in the index to the State Department notes to foreign legations as “enclosing certain documents relative to Mr. Wallace’s apt. as British Consul at Savannah” (DNA: RG 59, Notes to Foreign Ministers and Consuls, vol. 1).
1324From James Madison to Robert H. Rose, 14 February 1821 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Robert H. Rose. Letter not found. 14 February 1821 . Calendared as a one-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force ( DLC , series 7, box 2).
1325From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 30 March 1782 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Madison Papers). The cover is missing, but JM, Sr., docketed the letter, “Madison Js. cop. March 30. 1782.” Mr. J. Walker has safely delivered to me three letters from you attended with the money therein specified. He has also been so obliging as to undertake the conveyance of the several articles of Medecine you wanted with a Gallon keg filled with good Port: wine, to all which I...
1326From James Madison to Richard Bland Lee, 1 December 1788 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 1 December 1788 . Acknowledged in Lee to JM, 12 Dec. 1788 . Expresses reservations about the intended publication of an extract of his letter to Turberville of 2 Nov. 1788 . Reports that moderation has prevailed in the elections in the eastern states.
1327From James Madison to John Armstrong, 20 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
Note To the Secy. of War on Govr. Shelby’s letter of Augst. 4 put into the hands of J. M. Aug. 19. The Secy. of War will state his opinion on the case presented by Govr. Shelby. Have not analogous cases of a disproportion of officers, and of mounted volunteers serving as militia been heretofore acted on. Draft ( DLC ); Tr ( DLC , series 3). Draft included among documents dated 16 Aug. 1814 in...
1328From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 29 October 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 October 1812. In accordance with an act of 3 Mar. 1809, directs “the sum of Five hundred thousand Dollars, of the fund appropriated for the pay of the Army, be applied to that of the Clothing Department.” RC (owned by Albert C. Wilkerson, Richmond, Va., 1961). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. See U.S. Statutes at Large The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17...
1329From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. by the Bearer, the inclosed letter. As I understand that the Writer Mr. V. and Mr. Dunbar, are both of them acquainted with the established course, in such cases, I fulfill their expectations as well as keep within the rule of propriety, in merely saying that I believe both to be men of respectable character; and consequently not excluded from the ordinary indulgence...
1330James Madison to James Maury, 5 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of Jany 29-30. with the interesting Gazettes then & afterwards kindly sent, have been duly recd. Your friend Mr Hagarty has not yet afforded me an opportunity for the welcome I shall feel a pleasure in giving him, over my threshold. Your advice to the Tobacco Planters is very good but it will not be followed for 3 reasons: 1. because good advice it apt to be disregarded. 2. because...
1331James Madison to John G. Chapman, 23 December 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 23d. inst: No apology was necessary for the request it makes, which will be complied with by the subjoined signature Be pleased to accept, with my cordial respects, my good wishes for a prosperous career professional & personal RC (owned by Chuck Rogers, Irvine, Calif., ).
1332From James Madison to an Unidentified Correspondent, 11 February 1818 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 11 February 1818. Offered for sale in the Heartman Catalogue No. 206 (12 Oct. 1929), item 180, where it is listed as a draft letter in the third person in JM’s hand. Attached is a short letter, also in the third person, in Dolley Payne Madison’s hand.
1333James Madison to William Jones, 10 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
Wishing a safe & early conveyance for a letter to Mr. Maury our Consul at Liverpool, I take the liberty of enclosing it with a request that you will be so good as to forward it by the 1st. vessel bound thither from Philada. & under the care of a friendly passenger, if there be such an one. Pardon this trouble & be assured my dear Sir of the continuance of my cordial esteem & of all my best...
1334From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 30 September 1769 (Madison Papers)
I recieved your letter by Mr. Rosekrans, and wrote an Answer; but as it is probable this will arrive sooner which I now write by Doctor Witherspoon, I shall repeat some circumstances to avoid obscurity. On Wednesday last we had the annual commencement. Eighteen young gentlemen took their Batchelors’ degrees, and a considerable number their Masters Degrees; the Degree of Doctor of Law was...
1335James Madison to C. Schultz, 25 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Augst. 9th. was not recd. nor indeed written till the Convention at Charlottesville had dissolved itself. Had it been otherwise, the topics you suggest wd. not have been viewed as within the task for which the members had met For myself, however worthy of attention, your suggestions may be, I have arrived at a period of life which makes it proper that I should leave them to...
1336From James Madison to Daniel Carroll, 10 April 1791 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 10 April 1791. Acknowledged in Carroll to JM, 23 Apr. 1791 . JM apparently sought details of the land acquisitions within the area set aside for the federal district on the Potomac.
1337James Madison to Albert J. Kidd, 9 December 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have your letter & am glad to find, that the information you request, will have probably reached you thro’ the Newspaper which contain it as notified from the authoritative source. I have only therefore to express my hopes, that your exertions on the occasion have the success they merit, & tender the respects I pray you to accept Draft (DLC) . Written on the same page with a draft of JM to...
1338From James Madison to George Lee Turberville, 3 October 1788 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 3 October 1788 . Acknowledged in Turberville to JM, 24 Oct. 1788 . Reports inquiries he has made concerning the fate of Dr. Spence ( JM to Jefferson, 8 Oct. 1788 ).
1339From James Madison to James Bowdoin, 17 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
Since the event which led to the late Proclamation of the President, inclosed in the letter to Genl. Armstrong and yourself, the British squadron in the waters of Virginia has conducted itself in the same insolent and hostile spirit. Merchant vessels arriving and departing, have been challenged, fired at, examined, and detained, within our jurisdiction; with as little scruple as if they were...
1340From James Madison to James Monroe, 19 March 1786 (Madison Papers)
I am just favored with yours of the 11 & 16. of Feby. A newspaper since the date of the latter has verified to me your inauguration into the mysteries of Wedlock, of which you dropped a previous hint in the former. You will accept my sincerest congratulations on this event, with every wish for the happiness it promises. I join you cheerfully in the purchase from Taylor, as preferable to taking...
1341James Madison to Peter Stephen Duponceau, 30 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects & regards to Mr. DuPonceau thanks him for the Copy of his Historical Discourse commemorating the 150th. anniversary of the Landing of Wm. Penn. J M has read with much pleasure, a performance which must afford pleasure to all readers, by the appositeness of its plan, and by the interesting and impressive manner which characterize the execution of it FC (DLC) .
1342From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 28 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I request you will be pleased to issue a warrant on the appropriations for Barbary Intercourse, for twelve hundred dollars, in favor of John Davidson Jnr., the holder of the enclosed bill of exchange, dated the 15th. Octr. 1806, and drawn by James Simpson, Consul of the United States at Tangier. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
1343From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 28 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I request you to be pleased to issue a warrant on the Appropriations for Barbary intercourse, for one thousand four hundred dollars, in favor of Thomas Tingey Esqr. the holder of the enclosed bill of Exchange, for that amount drawn upon me on the 5 September last by James Simpson, Consul of the U. States at Tangier, who is to be charged with the same on the Books of the Treasury, and held...
1344From James Madison to Benjamin Day, 13 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 February 1804, Washington. “I have recd your favor of the 10th. inst: and remit a dft on the post Master at Fredg. for $54.75. being the amt. of charges on the Tobo. sent by the Atlantic. Be so good as to acknowledge the rect. of it; and if meanwhile you should see Mr. J. Ross of your Town, you will oblige me by saying whether he recd. a letter not long ago from me.” RC ( PHi ). 1 p.;...
1345James Madison to William Allen, 20 April 1835 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a check for fifty dollars which you will place to my credit on your books. After this be pleased to add up the debits & credits and inform me of the precise balance as it stands at this time between us. This I cannot ascertain, the prices of the articles sent from time to time not being annexed. Draft (DLC) .
1346James Madison to Joseph Kerr and Others, 27 April 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have received young friends, your letter of the 18. communicating my appointment as an honorary Member of the Washington Literary Society, of Washington College. Viewing with gratification every Institution favorable to the cause of Literature and Science, I cannot be insensible to the tribute of respect, from that, of which you are the Committee. In my present condition I can only express...
1347From James Madison to Thomas Fitzsimmons, 11 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 6th. has, as you desired been laid before the President, who authorises me to inform you that it is in contemplation to dispatch to Europe for public purposes, a Vessel or Vessel, from time to time during the period of the Embargo, and that previous notice of the time & place of departure will be given, with a view to the accommodation of Merchants & others in their foreign...
1348From James Madison to Anthony Charles Cazenove, 22 August 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 22 August 1811. Acknowledged in Cazenove to JM, 6 Sept. 1811 . Places an order for Madeira wine from Messrs. Murdoch.
1349From James Madison to Joseph Jones, 3 April 1795 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 3 April 1795. On this day JM wrote letters to Jones and Arnold Henry Dohrman but in error sent them to the incorrect recipients. These letters were respectively acknowledged in Dohrman to JM, 6 Apr. 1795 , and Jones to JM, 7 Apr. 1795 .
1350From James Madison to John Armstrong, 7 August 1814 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To John Armstrong. Letter not found. 7 August 1814. Described as a one-page draft or memorandum in the lists probably made by Peter Force ( DLC , series 7, container 2).