1To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 16 September 1826 (Madison Papers)
Our friend Mr Terrell is now among us, on a farewell visit, preparatory to his removal to New...
2To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, [5] October 1826 (Madison Papers)
With a caution that my slowness and total inexperience in the duties of which the board of...
3To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 28 October 1826 (Madison Papers)
Your letter found me engaged with the papers relating to Mr Jefferson’s memoir. As I could not...
4To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 18 November 1826 (Madison Papers)
You should have heard from me some time since, but for the prospect held out by the arrival of...
5To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 30 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
The first thing to be done after the adjournment of the Board, was to make up the record & copy...
6To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 8 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
My indisposition was of short duration: Dr Dunglison’s prescription dispelling the fever & other...
7To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 9 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
When I came to make a copy of the report, I was stopped at the first step, by the want of a...
8To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 25 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
This mail conveys to you two copies of the enactments, which have been delayed so long. You will...
9To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 31 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
I send, with the request that they be returned when you shall have done with them, a couple of...
10To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 1 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have determined to send you also a No of the Westminster, containing another article on...
11To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 21 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
I now return you the paper containing Mr Hassler’s publication, which, so very slight was my...
12To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 25 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I owe you many apologies for so late an acknowledgment of your kind favor of the 2 inst.; but it...
13To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 3 April 1827 (Madison Papers)
Intending to answer your favor of the 27th. by that mail, I went up on saturday afternoon, to the...
14To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, [3 April 1827] (Madison Papers)
Stepping into the post-office to put my letter in, I am pleased to find the enclosed left here...
15To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 26 April 1827 (Madison Papers)
Calling by here in haste this morning, I am met by Mr Brockenbrough who calls me into his office,...
16To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 6 May 1827 (Madison Papers)
I owe many apologies for this tardy acknowledgment of your favor of last month. Several causes...
17To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 18 May 1827 (Madison Papers)
Mr Willard of Roxbury near Boston, who has come on to the University with the large clock of...
18To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 30 July 1827 (Madison Papers)
My delay in writing has been greater than you probably expected when we parted or than I...
19To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, [September 1827] (Madison Papers)
You will find in No. 3 (as marked by me) some new details respecting your early career, as well...
20To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 28 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 23d. was not received until last night. I had been thinking some time, that I...
21To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 8 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
Owing to my not attending Court on Monday I did not receive your favor of the 3d. till the next...
22To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 19 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
Much occupation of one kind or another, together with the knowledge that all you desired was to...
23To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 6 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed letter, I received yesterday evening and hasten to forward to you, as well as my...
24To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 13 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
In the expectation of finding there a letter from Mr Coolidge, I rode to the post-office...
25To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 11 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
My conscience has been reproaching me for some time past with my remissness towards you; and yet...
26To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 18 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I am utterly ashamed of myself for having kept you waiting so long for letters which you have,...
27To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, [18 January 1828] (Madison Papers)
You will perceive in the accompanying paper, one of your ideas thrown into print. The origin of...
28To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 29 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have been expecting by every mail for a week past, an answer to a letter I wrote you on the...
29To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 30 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
To my great mortification, I learn this evening that Mr Randolph left Edge-hill after dinner, for...
30To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 1 February 1828 (Madison Papers)
The servant overtook Mr R. So that you received your tardy letters yesterday evening. I now send...
31To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 12 February 1828 (Madison Papers)
Called to Charlottesville on business, I stop a moment, to send you an extract from a few lines...
32Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 30 March 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have to acknowledge your two favors of the 8th & 27th instant. The last came to hand yesterday...
33Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 1 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
A steady rain all day yesterday prevented my going to the University then. The hour at which the...
34Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 8 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have searched the papers here in vain, for the power of attorney; and it will be impossible to...
35Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 10 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
My search among the papers here, has proved equally ineffectual. I shall see Mr Gilmer to-day,...
36Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 12 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
Taking the white sheet in which the papers were wrapped, for a mere envelope; I did not notice...
37Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 17 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
On going over to Edge-hill yesterday, I learned that the letter you wrote for a copy of, sometime...
38Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 30 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
I should not have been so tardy in acknowledging your two favors of the 23 and 30th ulto, and...
39Nicholas P. Trist: Notes on Student Tickets, 1 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
If the price of tickets be reduced from $50 to $30 a piece on the student’s taking two whole...
40Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 5 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
The two packets containing your letter to Mr Eppes, and those from Mr Hassler, came to hand in...
41Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 26 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
Immediately after the adjournment of the Board, Mr Lomax called to enquire whether they had made...
42Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 30 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your kind favor with the accompanying papers, from which I have made several interesting...
43Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 2 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
The packet which goes by the same mail contains, I believe, all the papers you desired me to...
44Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 14 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 11th finds me this morning on the point of setting out, in company with Dr...
45Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 16 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
When I dispatched the packet containing the papers of Mr Tracie, last week, it was in such a...
46Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 24 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
A letter just received from Mr Monroe, betrays the erroneous impression that the first...
47Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 9 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
The Board, as you will perceive, adjourned on Saturday; and, at that time, I expected to have it...
48Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 20 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your kind favor of the 12th (post-mark-14th) was received on the 17th, & I wished to answer it by...
49Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 25 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
I received, yesterday, a letter from Mr Clay, which I have answered by an acceptance of the...
50Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 13 November 1828 (Madison Papers)
You will be surprised at the place from which I date. I reached the Courthouse in good time to...