31From 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...
32From 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...
33From 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...
34From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 21 February 1823 (Madison Papers)
Since I recd. your two letters of I have hitherto been prevented from acknowledging them first by some very urgent calls on my time, and afterwards by an indisposition which has just left me. I have forwarded the letters with the printed papers to Mr. Jefferson. I know well the respect he as well as myself attaches to your communications. But I have grounds to believe that, with me also, he...
35From 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...
36From 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.”
37From 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...
38From 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...
39From 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.
40From 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...
41From 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...
42From 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...
43From 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...
44From 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...
45From 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 ,...