51James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the 18th. The delay in sending on the Report of the Visitors was unluckily increased by my error in supposing that your letter to Charlottesville , had been addressed to the Bursar. On the discovery of it by his answer to one from me, I inclosed the Report unsealed to him with a request that he would include the omitted document, and then forward the communication by...
52James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
Interruptions from my Rheumatism and a succession of less unwelcome guests have delayed the thanks now rendered for your several printed communications, particularly, the Pamphlet of Mr. E. and the paper headed "Nullification Theory". The former is an able & well written performance; and will be denied this character by few of the adverse party. If the latter does not silence the adversary,...
53James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with yours of the 12th. the 1st. vol: of Lyman’s Diplomacy. The mail charged with the 2d. is not yet arrived, owing to a failure between Washington & Fredg. Tomorrow’s will probably bring it. I have not examined into the discrepancy of dates you refer to in the origin of the tonnage regulation. Perhaps it may be explained by the circumstance of the same Session of Congress being...
54James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
private I regret that my memory can give you no aid in yr. search for the fact in question. It is possible that the Newspaper publishing the laws may have printed it soon as authorized; and may therefore be worth examining. The letters you refer to were both recd. & I thank you for them. Cordial salutations RC (DLC : Nicholas P. Trist Papers).
55James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of Sunday last has been duly recd. I thank you for your obliging attention to the packet for Nicholls. He has acknowledged the receipt of its contents, and you need not put pen to paper further on the subject. You observe that you had in a communication to the Nat:. Intelligencer pointed out the error as to Mr. Jefferson’s connection with the Kentucky Resolns. of –99. If not too late to...
56James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 17th. & thank you for the copy of Mr. Jeffersons letter to Mr. Norvell on the deceptive & licencious character of the press. My answer to the letter of General Lafayette referring to the abuse abroad of that of Mr. Jefferson in decrying the liberty of the press, appealed for an antidote to the known attachment of Mr. J. to a free press, as a necessary guardian of...
57James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, December 1831 (Madison Papers)
Returned with the respects & thanks of The phenomenon referred to, if authentic and not explained by peculiar & transitory circumstances, is remarkably at variance with the general reasoning on the subject. RC (DLC : Nicholas P. Trist Papers).
58From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 10 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 5th., enclosing one from Mr. Johnson having been overlooked as I presume at the post office here did not reach me till yesterday evening. I sent off a line immediately for the mail of this morning informing him I could not attend the proposed Meeting of the Visitors. It can have no effect however, unless, he should happen to have pos[t]poned, without abandoning his passage up by...
59From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 4 February 1828 (Madison Papers)
Since mine of the 26. ult: which I hope got safe to hand, I have recd. yours of the 29th.: since which that of the 30th. with the bundle of letters has been handed to me by Mr Randolph. I am very sorry for the trouble it cost you to take advantage of that conveyance. I return, as you desire, the extracts you made from some of the letters. I return also the copies of two letters, inclosed in...
60James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 30 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. from Mr Gilmer the desired copy of the Power of Attorney to his brother, and inclose a few lines thanking him for his prompt attention to the request conveyed to him. Not knowing the County in which the post office lies, I beg the favor of you to add it on the superscription as there may be other "Libertys", leading the letter astray. With that addition, please to have it...
61James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 1 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I return with my thanks the printed speech of Colo. Hayne on the 4th. of July last. It is blotted with many strange errors, some of a kind not to have been looked for from a mind like that of the author. I cannot see the advantage of this perseverance of South Carolina in claiming the authority of the Virginia proceedings in. 98-99, as asserting a right in a single State to nullify an Act of...
62James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 29 April 1833 (Madison Papers)
I observe that you have received the appointment of Consul at Havanna. I doubt not that you have well weighed the pro and the con; and I sincerely wish that the scale of the former may preponderate more in reality, than it may have done in contemplation. I am much in the arrears of the thanks due for your successive communications. It has been the effect of my continued hopes that your...
63James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 21st. was recd. yesterday. On the question of recalling the communication made for the Natl. Intelligencer I submit the following statement. In a letter, lately noticed from Mr. Jefferson dated Novr. 17. 1799, he " encloses me a copy of the draught of the Kentucky Resolves ", (a press copy of his own manuscript). Not a word of explanation is mentioned. It was probably sent, &...
64James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 10 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
My Rheumatism is very obstinate. It has baffled all my remedial adjustments including the oiled Silk. Among its effects, it disables my pen, & my hand from holding a Book or handling my papers RC (DLC : Nicholas P. Trist Papers).
65James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 18 January 1833 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 11th. was duly recd. I am sorry that you could not visit us at the intended time, and still more so for the obstacles to it. We shall look for you at the period you now have in view, with a hope that the trip on horseback will be as favorable to your health as it promises to be. I have not yet looked into the columns of the Gazette kindly enclosed to me, on the Bank transaction. I...
66From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 7 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your two letters of the 31st Ult. and the first inst: and with them the “Harmony Gazettes” and the “Westminster Review.” The former I now return. The Review I retain for another mail, to avoid encumbering too much the present. You justly set a high value on Gymnastics. But a letter from Mr. Cabell gives little hope that the funds of the University will be aided for that or any...
67James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 1 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 24th. Ult. was recd. by mail of thursday last. The copies of Mr. Monroe’s paper had been just before forwarded to Mr. Johnson & Mr. Cabell, and I sent to Mr Randolph by the earliest mail the copies of Mr. Jeffersons letters to Mr. Adams senr. and myself; having previously adverted to the passages you wished to have my consideration. The word "species" last repeated, I found...
68From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 12 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
I did not receive your two letters of the 8th & 9th. till last evening after the Mail for Charlottesville had passed, and could not therefore sooner acknowledge them. The letters ought to have come to hand the day before yesterday, and might then, have been answered by the mail of yesterday. How the failure happened I know not. That no time might be unnecessarily lost I sent the day before...
69James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 21 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I return the Newspapers. The passage referred to is a sad sample of Pulpit authenticity, justice & delicacy. In what relates to me, there is scarce any part wholly true in the sense intended. How such a string of misinformations cd. have been gathered, it is not easy to imagine. I never studied law with Mr. Jefferson. The Story of my father’s interference, & my evasion of his anxious...
70James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 3 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of May 29 was duly recd. The construction put, in the Presidents message, on the Veto in 1817 agst. the power of Congress as to internal improvements, could not fail to surprize me. To my consciousness that the Veto was meant to deny, as well the appropriating, as the executing & jurisdictional branches of the power, was added, the fact that as far as has ever fallen under my...
71James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 4 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by yesterday’s mail yours of the 2d. with the communication for Mr. T. J. Randolph wch. will be forwarded by the earliest mail, viz on Monday. I do not find among my Pamphlets that of Docr. Cooper on Government. I am under the impression that it is still in the hands of Mr. Lomax. In that case he will readily let you have it. Should it have been returned, let me know, and I will look...
72James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 8 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 3d. came safe to hand, with that from Mrs. T. to Mrs. M. Inclosed is the answer of the latter. My hopes & wishes are much encouraged by the detailed view you give of your new destination. We count with assurance now on a visit from both Mrs. T. & yourself, and with a probability of that of Mrs. Randolph, at a day not very distant. Let us know the time when it shall be fixed on....
73James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 19 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
I return the little Volume on Cholera passed to me thro’ Docr. Dunglison. It attracts respect & confidence by the course of investigation pursued by the authors, & by the modesty with which results are presented. I will return by another mail Lee’s Vial of wrath or rather of rage. It ought to have been done long ago, & I owe an apology for the omission. It was some time before I could learn...
74From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 13 September 1827 (Madison Papers)
This will be handed to you by Mr. George Washington, a nephew of Mrs. Madison, who being with his wife & his mother Mrs Todd on a visit to us, indulges his curiosity by one to the University, and will probably mark his respect for the spot where we understand you will now be found, by a ride to it. He is an Eleve of the University of Transylvania, and tho’ a married man but a short time out of...
75James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
You are aware of the loss the University is sustaining by the resignation of Doctr Dunglison, and must be equally so, of the difficulty of filling the vacancy. There is no prospect of doing it from the Faculty of Virga. I hope you will have turned your thoughts to the subject, and I must ask the favor of you to avail yourself of the opportunities you have, especially if you should visit...
76James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 5 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday your favour of the 2d. with its accompaniments. I thank you for the little treatise on mental* Physiology, which I reserve for perusal at the earliest leisure. From the reputed talents & tenets of the Author, something may be anticipated well written & out of the trodden circle. I thank you also for the rectified copy of "Distress for rent," and return the one formerly sent...
77From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 13 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
I forgot to comply with a request of Mr. Monroe, that the last letter of Mr. Bernard might be sent back to him, which had been requested by Mr. B. Be so good as to put it under cover for him, and forward it by mail to Fredericksburg: unless there be something in the letter making it improper. I recollect nothing of such a character. RC ( DLC : Nicholas P. Trist Papers). William Bernard...
78James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 18 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 14th. with the printed communication is recd. It was not my object in the remarks on Col. H. B Speech to suggest any immediate publication in any form on the subject. I thought it well that a discreet & friendly hand should possess & preserve an antidote to mistatements whether White or black. I detain the newspapers a day or two for perusal of the passages referred to Affect....
79James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 11 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. a letter from Mr. Monroe, from which I find that he wishes a copy of the Resolution appointing him & Mr. Johnson a Committee to report a plan of police for the university. Be so good as to send him a copy; apprizing him at the same time of the day, the 1st. of Ocr., fixed for the next meeting of the Visitors, which he seems to have forgotten. Mr. Tracie, who has been confined...
80James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 21 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
Be so obliging as to complete the address of the inclosed letter to Mr. Eppes in answer to one recd. from him at Tallahassee, whence I presume he has got back to Virga. You will find the Debate in the Brit: H. of Commons on the subject of Canada, interesting in a historical as well as several other views. Mrs. M. has recd the welcome letter from Mrs. Randolph; and if she does not now answer it...