1To James Madison from James Ogilvie, 12 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
I write on the spur of occasion & have only time to request, that you will have the goodness to send me by Captn. Winston a List of such political Essays & publications as shed the clearest light on the sources of public opinion relative to the adoption & construction of the Federal Government & the leading measures of the late Administration. Should any apology be necessary for the Liberty I...
2To James Madison from James Ogilvie, 9 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 March 1804, Richmond. “Confidence in your philanthropy, rather than any claim to your consideration founded on private intercourse or friendship, emboldens me to request, for a moment, your attention to a circumstance which altho’ of a personal nature, may not perhaps in your estimation, be altogether unimportant to society. You have probably read or heard some account of the University...
3To James Madison from James Ogilvie, 18 May 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 May 1810, Augusta. Thanks JM for his “friendly letter [not found] … in reply to one which I took the liberty to address to you from Portland.” Plans to spend several months in Kentucky, in “seclusion & solitary study,” to work on a series of orations: “‘The Progress & Prospects of society in the U.S.’—‘The Licentiousness of the Press & the most eligible & probably efficient corrective of...
4To James Madison from James Ogilvie, August 1816 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty, my dear Sir, to transmit for your perusal a sort of synopsis of a book which will shortly make its appearance. He must have stouter nerves than mine, who in an age like this, can provoke the attention & await the decision of the august & penetrating awarders of literary justice, without apprehension & awe. But I have arrived somewhat abruptly & unpreparedly, at a stage in...
5To James Madison from James Ogilvie, 15 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
It gives me, Sir, peculiar pleasure to embrace the occasion, which accident affords me of introducing to your acquaintance, my friend Doctor William Daingerfield of Alexandria. I am aware that introductory letters are generally written in the spirit formality & civility, & that the courtesies of polite society, allow a latitude of expression, not strictly confined by the principle of sincerity....
6To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 28 March 1770 (Jefferson Papers)
I am disappointed hitherto in every attempt to get ordained. The Commissary wrote against me in these words. Colo. Mercer saw the letter. “Mr. Ogilvie applied to me last spring for a recommendation to your Lordship for holy Orders. For reasons which then existed I refused him. He has now applied to me a second time, as these reasons are not removed I have denied him again, but he goes home in...
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 26 April 1771 (Jefferson Papers)
Though I have wrote you and Mr. Walker twice, yet I am at a loss to know whether any of my letters have come to hand or not as I have never heard from Virginia, but once since I left it which was a letter dated last Novr. from my young freind at Belvidere . I have the pleasure however to inform you that I have got into deacon’s Orders by the Bishop of Durham, independant of Horrocks by means...
8To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, [before 3 July 1795] (Jefferson Papers)
I consider it as one of the characteristic blessings of Republicanism that it disentangles man from that labyrinth of ceremonial and those entrenchments of rank that inoculate and dissever society in countrys where monarchy prevails and opens a free channel to that stream of intercourse and communion from which so much of the improvement and felicity of mankind springs: Tis on this account...
9To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 11 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment apprised that it is probable you will pass thro’ Stevensburg on the 15th. Inst: On that day, my junior pupils will undergo a public examination in the forenoon, & in the afternoon, original orations will be pronounced by the senior students. Indulging a hope, that you may find it convenient to honour the Academy with your presence, I take the liberty to observe, that few...
10To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 29 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of requesting your attention to an Address to the Inhabitants of the City of Washington & its Vicinity, which I have transmitted for insertion in the next Intelligencer.—Whilst I disclaim every intention of soliciting any thing at your hands, that requires the preface of an apology & have not the smallest right to expect from you any exertion of the nature of private favour,...