4261To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 24 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
On the 18th. of this month I intended to have set out on my journey to pay my respects to you and to Mrs. Madison at Montpelier. But Symptoms of the Gout, occasioned by being caught in a heavy rain, warned me, and still warn me not to venture at any distance from home. If these should wear off, and my Plantation matters, which are very backward, Tobacco especially, will permit me to leave them...
4262To James Madison from Peter Minor, 15 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have recieved your letter of the 7th. Inst. with its enclosures, which shall be duly attended to. I comply with your request, by forwarding herewith half a dozen copies of the rules & regulations of Our Society, & the same number of copies of your Address. If a greater number of either would be acceptable, the stock on hand is sufficient to supply them. Of this you can inform me at the next...
4263From James Madison to José Corrèa de Serra, 13 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your favor of the 5th. inst. inclosing a copy of the observations & conjectures on the soil of Kentucky, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. I had a little Time before met with this paper, and read it with the pleasure & instruction promised by the name prefixed to it. As you have seen the observations addressed to the Agricul: Socy. of Albemar[l]e, the inclosed copy of...
4264To James Madison from Edgar Macon, 12 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter in which you have laid down a course of reading proper to be pursued by me, and for which I tender you my sincerest thanks. The time I devote to reading is during the vacation, & those hours in the session when the students are not confined. I am able to employ one third of the year in reading without encroaching on my college studies. I was gratified after reading...
4265To James Madison from William F. Gray, 7 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
At the request of Mr Todd I have procured the Analectic Magazine to sent [ sic ] on by Mail for you, and I herewith forward the No. for Sept. That for Aug. had been sent off by Water, before I gave the necessary directions to the publisher, and has not yet reached me. It shall be sent to you as soon as recd. I have made enquiry respecting Wilson’s Ornithology and Pinkerton’s Voyages & Travels....
4266To James Madison from José Corrèa de Serra, 5 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have just read your adress to the agricultural society of Virginia and must congratulate your state not only for the consequences which are still in the womb of futurity, and are not always proportionate to the best wishes, but for the rare exemple given by two subsequent chiefs of the nation, of improving the first and noblest of arts, after having administered the government of a great...
4267To James Madison from Mordecai M. Noah, 1 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
Mr Millar a very respectable publisher of American works in London has called upon me for the purpose of receiving a copy of the Address lately written by you on Agriculture with a view of publishing the same in a handsome edition in London. As he is somewhat delicate on this occasion he is desirous of obtaining your permission so to do. You will pardon the liberty I take in soliciting for him...
4268Account with Charles Taylor, [27 August] 1818 (Madison Papers)
Colo. James Madison To Charles Taylor Dr. 1817 July 25th & 26 To Viseting Med: &c for Paul 24/ £1.. 4.. 0 Augst. 4th A Viset Attendance &c Yr.Self 24/ 1.. 4.. 0 5th To Sundrys for Abraham the Gonorhas 48/ 2.. 8.. 0 Also Mercurial Course for Kitty and also Do. from 13th Feby. 1818 to June To 12 Visets Mercurial Course Dressings Med: &c for Do. inclusive $25 7.. 10.. 0
4269From James Madison to William S. Stone, 26 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
Capt. Walker with whom Eddins was in Treaty for my Wheat having signified yesterday his acceptance of the terms proposed to him, viz nine shillings per bushel delivered at his Mill, a concurrence in your memorandum for a bargain is of course precluded. Be so good as to procure or reserve for me about twenty five tons of best Plaster, which we shall soon be able to begin waggoning up. Friendly...
4270To James Madison from Richard Peters, 24 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 15th. arrived in time to enable me to add a little Note to the Errata of our 4th. Vol: which I copy. ☞ “A highly respectable friend has been so good as to point out to me my careless Mode of expression in my ‘Notices to a young Farmer,’ page XXXVI. I mention Wheat being so injured by stagnant water, ‘as to become abortive; & produce only Cheat .[’] I should have said, and...