2451From James Madison to Henry Hill Jr., 19 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 4th inst, has been duly received and in consequence of its suggestions, I inclose a letter to the Governor of Cuba informing him of your appointment and touching the subject of captures. Your Commission, superseding that of Mr Josiah Blakely at St Jago, you will intimate it to him on your arrival, giving him at the same time to understand, that his removal was the result of...
2452From James Madison to Henry Hill Jr., 13 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Henry Hill Jr. 13 July 1805, Department of State. “I have lately received a letter from Mr Blakely late Consul at St Jago, from which it appears that besides the ten-dollars allowed for the passage of seamen when put on board American vessels according to law, he has furnished them with provisions for their passage. You will therefore be pleased to take such steps as may prevent for the...
2453From James Madison to James Hillhouse, 24 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To James Hillhouse. 24 March, Monday. “Mr. Madison requests the pleasure of Mr. Hillhouse’s company to Dinner on Saturday next at ½ past 3. oClock.” RC ( CtY ). 1 p.; in an unidentified hand. Year not indicated; conjectural year of 1806 assigned based on the fact that 24 Mar. fell on a Monday in 1806, and James Hillhouse departed the Senate in 1810. Connecticut lawyer James Hillhouse...
2454James Madison to James Hillhouse, 17 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 10th. instant with the pamphlet containing the proposed amendments of the Constitution of the United States, on which you request my opinion and remarks. Whatever pleasure might be felt in a fuller compliance with your request, I must avail myself of the pleas of the age I have reached, and of the controul of other engagements, for not venturing on more than...
2455From James Madison to William Hilliard, [ca. 1 November 1826] (Madison Papers)
It being represented to the Executive Comme. of the Board of Visitors of the University that there are delays in furnishing the Periodicals, ordered by the late Rector, very inconvenient to the Faculty, we give this intimation of it, in the hope that it will produce a due punctuality in this respect. It cannot be necessary to remark, that regular supplies of books for the University especially...
2456From James Madison to Jeremiah Hill, 25 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 January 1804, Department of State. “I have recd. your letter of the 12th [not found], enclosing an account for taking a protest relative to the impressment of two seamen: but on recurring to my circular of the 1st. Octr., you will find that it does not assume to pay for evidences of impressments; on the contrary the law imposes it upon the masters of Vessels from which they are made. The...
2457From James Madison to Mark Langdon Hill, 18 April 1822 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects to Mr. Hill, returns his thanks for the copy of the Report of the Committee on Commerce. The Report contains much important information on an important subject, and inculcates the true principles of reciprocity which ought to regulate the intercourse of Independent Nations. Whilst the U States contend for nothing beyond these, it ought not to be expected that they...
2458From James Madison to Mark Langdon Hill, [post–17] April 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yr. favor of the 17. enclosing 2 letters from Mr. Jefferson, one to the late Govr. Langdon, the other to yrself, and a copy of your printed address to yr. Constts. on the Missouri question. The letters I return as you desired. Mr. J. was very right I think in not assenting to the publicn of his letter to yr. uncle. I was myself, intimately acquainted with yr. Uncle, and cheerfully...
2459James Madison to Thomas S. Hinde, 17 August 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of July 23. was duly recd. but at a time when I was under an indisposition, remains of which are still upon me. I know not whence the error originated that I was engaged in writing the history of our Country. It is true that some of my correspondences during a prolonged public life, with other manuscripts connected with important public transactions are on my files, and may...
2460James Madison to I. Irvine Hitchcock, 4 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 20th. Ult. was not recd. till yesterday. It probably took some erroneous course before it arrived at the Post Office near me. (Orange Ct House) I enclose $4 in discharge of the acct. forwarded. The blame of delay is chargeable in part at least on Mr. Skinner; as will appear from my letter to him of Apl. 14. 1829, in which I requested him to mention the balance due from me....
2461From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 24 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Shields has been so good as to call & let me know that he left you & my sister well last week, and to give me an opportunity of saying that we are well as usual also. I have not lost ground in point of health since my return to this place, but do not find it yet as firm as I hope time & temperance may render it. Mr. Shields is possessed of a hand bill containing the official certainty of...
2462From James Madison to Isaac Hite, [22 June] 1803 (Madison Papers)
… the question of war in Europe. There remains but a bare possibility of an accomodation between Eng’d & France, and consequently a commencement of hostilities may be momently expected. The crisis is no doubt favorable to our objects with both the parties. We have letters from Mr. Monroe.… His prospects were … by no means unfavorable.… The war if it takes place will be made to solve many...
2463From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 25 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of by which we learn that we cannot have the pleasure of your & my sister’s company, in paying the last tribute of our affection & duty, to our deceased parent. It was indeed rather wished than expected, that such a journey would be practicable at this season, & under other existing circumstances. The funeral is to take place on saturday next, and a sermon is to be...
2464From James Madison to Isaac Hite, [ca. 7 March 1801] (Madison Papers)
I communicated to you by the last mail the afflicting event which took place on the 27th. Ult. I said nothing on the subject of the testamentary dispensations which it is proper should be made known to all the parties interested in them, because at that time none of the papers had been looked into. I now inclose the copy of the Will found among them; and which tho’ of not so late a date as...
2465From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 15 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by Mr. Rogers your favor of the 6th. Having not yet settled with the Butchers, from whom I have recd. in broken sums nearly the whole of their dbts., I cannot in the present haste ascertain the precise amount to be placed agst. the advan⟨c⟩e to Kincade. As there will be nearly a balance in that case, I return you the two former notes, which may hereafter if expedient be turned into a...
2466Promissory Note to Isaac Hite, 7 October 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 October 1801. JM promises to pay Hite “five hundred dollars, for value received.” Ms (Madison County, Virginia, Circuit Court Records). 1 p. In JM’s hand. Witnessed by JM’s niece Nelly C. Madison. Cover docketed by Hite, “James Madison to Isaac Hite note for £150.”
2467From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 15 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have not heard from you since you left Orange but conclude that you will now be found at home. The delays to which I have been subjected, determine me at length to abandon my visit, till the first of August. I hope I shall then be more fortunate in the oppy. of meeting you. The accts. from Europe are down to the 6th. of May. The preparations for war were not then relaxed and the prevailing [...
2468From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 16 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I duly recd. yours of the 25th. Ult: Your patents have been in my hands for some time, and wd. have been forwarded before my proposed trip to Orange in May, but for the expectation of being then the bearer of them myself. I know of no method by which you can obtain the surplus land, but that of buying warrants to cover it, and proceeding in the usual way. We are waiting anxiously for the...
2469From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 5 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
Business & bad weather have thus far detained me. I hope to set out tomorrow morning, if the mail of this evening brings nothing to interfere. There is a rumour that hostilities have commenced between G. B. & France. The event is to be expected from the positions taken by both parties both in arms & in negociation. Yrs. truly RC ( InHi ). Addressed to Hite at Orange Court House, Virginia.
2470From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 6 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since my last I have recd. yours communicating the sentiments of my mother & yourself on the proposition towards a compromise in the family. I have written to my brother in consequence, recommending a speedy execution of it. My intentions towards Nelly are known to you. Those of others except yourself, are not particularly known to me. I think it best that the other object should be secured as...
2471James Madison to Isaac Hite, 24 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 14th. I doubt not that Mr Randolph would be a faithful & capible Officer, in the place he seeks, but I have been oblidged by the numerious applications to me & the delicacy of discriminations to decline interposing in the case of candatates for office. I am glad to find that your constitution still resists your old complaint, & with an abatement of its...
2472From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 25 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 25 July 1801. Offered for sale in James F. Drake Catalogue No. 28 (1909), item 110, which notes that the two-page letter “mentions the treaty with France, the attitude of Great Britain, the election of Jefferson, etc.” Also offered for sale in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 975 (1908), item 778.
2473From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 13 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have been thus long detained from the pleasure of my intended trip to Orange; and it is still somewhat uncertain when I shall be permitted to start. As it is possible that the posture of the business in my department may continue to make my presence here proper, untill I can receive a few lines from you, be so good as to tell me what will be the last day to which your stay in our...
2474From James Madison to James M. Hite, 10 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yours of Sepr. 10. some time ago & did not despair till within a day or two, of being able to send you a Merino Ram which has been kept in readiness. It appears now that it can not be done and I make haste to give you the information hoping it will reach you by the time you have finished your seeding, & that the Ram may be on the spot by the time he will be wanted. I wish you to take...
2475From James Madison to James M. Hite, 23 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 5th. having made a circuit, thro’ Montpellier in Hanover County, has but just come to hand. If the grazing of Cattle has ceased to be profitable, it is well to look out for a substitute; but how far the raising of sheep will answer the purpose, depends on so many circumstances, some of them contingences, that I feel myself little competent to give advice on the subject. To...
2476James Madison to James Madison Hite, 25 November 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter by Henry. You mistake much in supposing my health to be such as when you last saw me; my debility & the effect of Rheumatism on my limbs scarcely permitting me to walk across the room; and the condition of my fingers obliging me often as in the present case to dictate to another pen, rather than force a use of my own. The appearance of the fly in the Wheat, and the...
2477From James Madison to Hobohoilthle, [6 November] 1809 (Madison Papers)
The President of the United States who sits in the place of General Washington, the head of that Government, and your Father, talks to you this day. He receives by Colo. Hawkins your Talk on the 29th. of September. That Talk was at Chattuckfoule. It was from Cowitah and Cussituh, the head towns of Muscogee. It has come strait as if from your mouth to his ear. He answers you. You are the Father...
2478James Madison to David Hoffman, 13 June 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. Hoffman thanks him for the copy of his lecture lately delivered in the University of Maryland. In the decrepit & feeble state of the health of J. M. he has not been able to bestow on some parts of the lecture the degree of attention which they merit. He can safely pronounce it to be a happy example in which erudite disquisition is presented in language not...
2479From James Madison to David Hoffman, 18 December 1823 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Mr. Hoffman with thanks for the Copy of his learned & persuasive lecture addressed to the Students of law. Draft ( DLC ). David Hoffman, A Lecture, Introductory to a Course of Lectures Now Delivering in the University of Maryland (Baltimore, 1823; Shoemaker Richard H. Shoemaker, comp., A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820–1829 (11 vols.; New York,...
2480From James Madison to David Hoffman, May 1821 (Madison Papers)
J Madison presents his respects to Mr Hoffman, with thanks for the copy of his “Syllabus.” It has not been convenient for him to bestow on it the critical attention necessary, if he were better qualified, to remark defects, if there be any, or to do justice to its merits. To the view he has taken of the plan, it appears to embrace the subject in its due extent and to designate and arrange the...
2481James Madison to David Hoffman, 14 March 1833 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your letter of the 14th. ult: which not requiring an immediate answer, I yielded the more readily to other claims on my attention. I inclose you a few lines which will make you known to Baron Humboldt, the only personal acquaintance, within the scope of your request, and since the deaths of Mr Lay & Mr. Bentham, I have no epistolary ones that would be so. You will not I am...
2482From James Madison to Moses Hoge, 22 April 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have recd: a printed Copy of the Laws of Hampden-Sidney College; to which is prefixed a list of the Trustees among whom I find that my name is honored with a place. I can not be insensible to this mark of respect & confidence: But as my distance from the Institution, with my advanced life and the ordinary incidents to it, leave me no prospect of being more than a nominal member, I am sure I...
2483From James Madison to Jussuf Hoggia, 26 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
The Ambassador Mellimelli being about to return from his Mission, I make use of the occasion to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of which he was the bearer, and to thank you for the esteem and good will which it expresses. It is an act of justice to the Ambassador, to assure you that he has been found worthy of the recommendation which your friendship bestowed on him. If at certain...
2484From James Madison to Edwin C. Holland, 30 November 1822 (Madison Papers)
JM. presents his respects to Mr. H. with thanks for the copy of his pamphlet; which is made particularly interesting by some of the views given of the subject discussed. Draft ( DLC ).
2485From James Madison to Horace Holley, 20 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Mr. Holley, and encloses a few lines as requested, to Mr. Gallatin. He has no acquaintance in Paris with whom he could take such a liberty, excepting those to whom Mr. Holley is personally known. RC ( KyLxT : Horace Holley Papers); draft ( DLC ). RC addressed and franked by JM to Holley at Lexington, Kentucky, “via City of Washington”; docketed by Holley. JM...
2486From James Madison to Levi Hollingsworth, 13 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 25th. Ult, and shall cause a copy of it to be forwarded to the Ministers of the United States in London, that they may render you such assistance as may be in their power and that it may suggest the utility of arranging means, if possible, for preventing similar sacrifices in future. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
2487From James Madison to Zebulon Hollingsworth, 26 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 October 1804, Department of State. “I will thank you to transmit to me, as soon as you can make it convenient, a statement comprizing the result of the investigations on the subject of a complaint of the British Minister, which you are requested to make in conjunction with the Collector of Baltimore, by my letter of the 28th. of August last . The intimation that you would lay the evidence...
2488From James Madison to Zebulon Hollingsworth, 28 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose extracts of a communication lately received from the British Minister alluding to irregularities alledged to have been committed by the officers of the French Frigate Poursuivante in the Port of Baltimore, affecting both the peace of the City and the neutrality of the United States. This being the first official intimation upon the subject I request you, with the...
2489From James Madison to John Hollins, 25 November 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To John Hollins. 25 November 1805, Department of State. “In consequence of your letter of the 22 inst. [not found] I have to inform you, that, according to a letter received from Mr. Blakely, dated 20 Septr. [not found] the Government of St. Jago of Cuba has taken possession of the Industry and her Cargo, and ordered them to be sold. Two days before the date of that letter, Capt. Johns had...
2490From James Madison to David Holmes, 12 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
In reply to your Letter of yesterday I have the Honor to state to you, that no remuneration has been made by the Danish Government to the United States "for and on account of the Prizes taken by the Alliance Frigate in 1779, carried into Bergen in Norway, and afterwards by Order of the Danish Government restored to the British" With great Respect I have the Honor to be, Sir, Your Mo: Obt Sert...
2491From James Madison to David Holmes, 9 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th. instant and the papers it inclosed, on the subject of Augustine Serrys claim, and in reply, to observe, that from the great length of time suffered by the claimant to elapse before he presented his claim, for settlement, to this Department, which for the first time was in the beginning of the present year, no appropriation...
2492From James Madison to David Holmes, 9 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I do myself the honor of returning to you the Memorial of John Mullowny, and the papers which were received with it. They are accompanied by an entire copy of a Letter from Mr. Jefferson, to Mr. Hammond, which is referred to by the Memorialist. The Record of this Letter, if it shall be deemed applicable, contains every thing which the Department of State is possessed of in relation to the...
2493James Madison to Thompson & Homans, [10] April 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. the 3 last Vols: of the Encyclopaedia Americana transmitted by you, and inclose a Check in payment for them. The 2d. Vol. which I take for granted was red. has strangely disappeared from my Library, and I am of course anxious to replace it. You will oblige me much by enabling me to do so. I understand that this may be done, if an early application be made. The cost will be...
2494James Madison to Thompson & Homans, 14 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
J Madison presents his respects to Messrs. Thompson & Homanes, & incloses 5$ instead of 2 1/2 charged in the Acct. sent with the 10 Vol. of the Encyclopedia Americana on the supposition that the preceding Vol might not have been pd. for, no acct. having been recd. with it. Should paymt have been recd. half the sum now remitted may be credited, & applied to the 11<th>. Vol— FC (DLC) ; partial...
2495James Madison to Thompson & Homans, 15 March 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison has duly recd. the Copy of the "National Calendar" for which he is indebted to Messrs. Thompson & Homans. And he cannot make his acknowledgments for it, without joining in the Commendations of a work which the Author has made so rich in acceptable information RC (DLC : Dolley P. Madison Papers); FC (DLC) .
2496From James Madison to James H. Hooe, 17 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 17 October 1810. Acknowledged in Hooe to JM, 19 Oct. 1810 . Offers to purchase the merino lamb claimed by Hooe.
2497From James Madison to James H. Hooe, 15 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Eno, the Bearer being authorized to select and receive the two Ewes allotted for J. Madison, by Mr. Jarvis, Mr. Hooe will please to furnish him with the oppy. He will pay also the freight & other charges. RC ( NN : Lee Kohns Memorial Collection). Docketed by Hooe.
2498From James Madison to Joseph Hopkinson, 8 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 February 1811. Offered for sale in Anderson Catalogue No. 1912 (19–21 Jan. 1925), item 406, where it is described as a one-page letter to Hopkinson in Philadelphia thanking him for a copy of a discourse (see Joseph Hopkinson, Annual Discourse, Delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. On the 13th of November 1810 [Philadelphia, 1810; Shaw and Shoemaker R....
2499From James Madison to David Hosack, 23 September 1824 (Madison Papers)
J.M. with his respects to Dr. H returns his thanks for the Inaugural Discourse before the N. Y. Horticultural Society, politely sent to him. The Discourse is not only recommended by the general information it contains, but derives particular value from the model for such Establishts. presented in the sketch for that of N. York. Draft ( DLC ). David Hosack, An Inaugural Discourse, Delivered...
2500From James Madison to David Hosack, 20 December 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your notification of my having been elected an Honorary Member of the New York Horticultural Society. Having derived from the view given of the Institution, in the Inaugural discourse of the President, a full persuasion of the excellence of its plan, and of its promised usefulness, I can not undervalue the honor of such a relation to it. I wish I could add that there was a...