1From James Madison to Walter Jones, 1 May 1796 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 1 May 1796. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, 15 May 1796 . Discusses congressional politics; forwards printed copies of debates in Congress.
2From James Madison to Walter Jones, 9 March 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 9 March 1794. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, 25 Mar. 1794 . Informs Jones that the success of JM’s resolutions on commercial discrimination has become doubtful.
3From James Madison to Walter Jones, 12 July 1789 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 July 1789. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, ca. 25 July 1789 . Indicates JM’s willingness to correspond with Jones concerning legislative matters.
4From James Madison to Walter Jones, ca. 15 October 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 15 October 1801. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, 31 Oct. 1801 , and probably written after JM’s return to Washington on 11 Oct. Inquires as to whereabouts of slave Plato.
5To James Madison from Walter Jones, 8 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 November 1801. Calendared as a one-page letter in the lists probably kept by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2).
6From James Madison to Walter Jones, 28 February 1790 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 28 February 1790. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, 25 Mar. 1790 . Reports recent illness.
7To James Madison from Walter Jones, 27 July 1799 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Ogilvie, intending Soon to pass thro yr Part of the Country, is desirous of the acquaintance of a Person, whose Character he respects as much as yours—it is with pleasure I facilitate his wishes by this Introduction—he is a most ardent Lover of Science and republicanism, and is most assiduously employed in imparting the Principles of both to a respectable & increasing School of promising...
8James Madison to Walter Jones, 26 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
I learn from Mr. Cutts, that in a Chancery suit brought agst. him by a Creditor, I am to be made a party. Having been very successful throughout my life in keeping clear of litigated transactions I am very anxious to avoid such an one, as that now threatened; and cannot but hope, when the Creditor perceives the manifest inutility of pressing me into the suit, he will not persist in his...
9To James Madison from Walter Jones, 15 September 1789 (Madison Papers)
Your Letter of the 18th. augt. found me so engaged in the usual Employment during our Autmn, that I have never had time to express my acknowlegements to you. The inestimable value of civil Liberty, like the gems, the precious metals, and fertile fields of the Earth, has ever made them the Common objects of robbery & usurpation—it is unfortunate that the first, tho infinitely most precious, is...
10To James Madison from Walter Jones, 16 April 1794 (Madison Papers)
I this day received yours of the 31st. March, and was truly Surprised at being informed you had never heard from me, since your former favours were sent on. I wrote to you pretty much at large about the 18th. of March, and informed you that my reason for having, at that time, deferred writing so long, was the hope that I might find Leisure to send you an Inclosure, successive to the former,...