1To James Madison from Charles Bagot, 26 August 1817 (Madison Papers)
We had hoped to have availed ourselves during the present month of Mrs. Madisons & your kind invitation to visit you in Virginia. Nothing but the intense heats, which have confined us almost entirely to the house, prevented our proposing to have this pleasure a fortnight ago. We anxiously hope that we are still not too late to be permitted to profit by your goodness, and we shall feel greatly...
2From James Madison to Charles Bagot, 31 August 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have but this moment received your agreeable favor of the 26th, which ought to have come [to] hand a day or two sooner; and from the arrangement of the mail days, this will not reach Washington so soon by a day or two, as the mere distance would permit. Mrs. Madison and myself learn with sincere pleasure that we shall not be disappointed of the kind visit promised us: We shall be at home...
3To James Madison from Charles Bagot, 5 September 1817 (Madison Papers)
I yesterday received your very kind letter of the 31st of last month, and we should immediately have set out on our journey to Montpellier, had I not just received some information which will make it unavoidably necessary for me to delay our journey for a few days. I am assured that the President is expected on the 10th or at latest on the 12th of this month in Washington, where He will remain...
4From James Madison to Charles Bagot, 26 September 1817 (Madison Papers)
I duly recd. from the hand of Mr. Harris your favor of the 20th. However much we regret the delays which have suspended your journey, we could not wish that the gratification it holds out to us should be at the cost of your official obligations. We flatter ourselves that no further impediments will deprive us of it, in the early part of the ensuing Month. For myself, I am compelled as a...