To James Madison from Wilson Cary Nicholas, 14 September 1804 (Abstract)
§ From Wilson Cary Nicholas
14 September 1804, Warren.1 “It gives me great pleasure to hear that you and Mrs. Madison, are to be in our neighbourhood; Mrs Nicholas and myself woud have met you at Col. Coles2 this day, but for an indisposition that I have had for some days, and from which I have not sufficiently recovered to venture out. We promise ourselves the pleasure of seeing you and Mrs. Madison at Warren, and that you will give to us, as great a portion of the time that you have devoted to your friends in Albemarle as you can. Be pleased to inform me by my nephew when I may expect you.”
RC (DLC). 1 p.; docketed by JM.
1. In 1794 Wilson Cary Nicholas established at his estate, Mount Warren, on the James River in southern Albemarle County, Virginia, the village of Warren, which contained a tobacco warehouse, mill, distillery, and tavern (Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia [1901; reprint, Bowie, Md., 1989], 58–59, 290; Edwin Morris Betts and James Adam Bear Jr., eds., The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson [Charlottesville, Va., 1986], 132 n. 2, 409 nn. 1 and 3).