1521To James Madison from Robert Pollard & Son, 17 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
We sometime since receivd your favour of requesting us to forward your Cheese to Fredg., but no opportunity having offered except by the stage, which we considerd unsafe, & expensive, we Kept a look out for a Waggon going to your section of the County, but have not, until to day, met with one. Mr James Miller who resides some distance above Gordonsville has taken it in his waggon & promises...
1522To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I return your letter to the President, and that of mr. Rush to you, with thanks for the communication. The matters which mr. Rush states as under consideration with the British government are very interesting. But that about the navigation of the St. Laurence and the Missisipi, I would rather they would let alone. The navigation of the former, since the N.Y. canal, is of too little interest to...
1523To James Madison from William Taylor, 15 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
Since my communication, dated in Mexico, some important political changes have taken place in that country, with the nature of which I presume you are already well acquainted. I will, however, briefly run over a few of them. After the fall of Iturbidie, the old Congress again assembled, & among other acts decreed, that the plan of Iguala and Treaty of Cordova, by which Mexico was to have been...
1524From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return your letter to the President, and that of mr Rush to you, with thanks for the communication. the matters which mr Rush states as under consideration with the British government are very interesting. but that about the navigation of the S t Laurence and the Missisipi, I would rather they would let alone. the navigation of the former, since the N.Y. canal, is of too little interest to...
1525To James Madison from Thomas J. Johnston, 10 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
An Obscure individual & in the interiour of our widely extended empire, presumes upon your indulgence & upon your goodness, in soliciting your advice & the aid of your opinion in the direction of his legal studies & political inquiries. The request is made with deference & not without a good deal of reluctance; but as the course of legal study which has been recommended to him by some of his...
1526To James Madison from Thomas Ewell, 7 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing to President Madison a Copy of an oration the sentiments of which I hope will please him. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . Thomas Ewell, An Oration, Delivered on the Fourth of July Last, at the Court House of Prince William County, Virginia (Washington, 1823).
1527To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
The belief is so universal that the ensuing legislature will dispose in some way of the University debt, & liberate our funds, as that we ought to save what time we can by provisional preparations. We have all, I believe, agreed that an Agent to Gr. Britain will be necessary to procure Professors; & I have heretofore mentioned to you that mr. Cabell was disposed to undertake the business. But...
1528From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The belief is so universal that the ensuing legislature will dispose in some way of the University debt, & liberate our funds, as that we ought to save what time we can by provisional preparations. we have all, I believe, agreed that an Agent to Gr. Britain will be necessary to procure Professors; & I have heretofore mentioned to you that mr Cabell was disposed to undertake the business. but...
1529To James Madison from George Graham, 5 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 30th Ult. covering three hundred & forty five dollars was duly received, and I now enclose the acknowledgment of Mr. Smith for the Money. As it was not indispensably necessary that the interest should be now paid upon more than one of your Notes, and as Mr. Cutts suggested to me that it would be convenient for you to make a different appropriation of a part of the Money, I...
1530To James Madison from Frederick W. Hatch, 3 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I fear that yourself or Mrs Madison have sufferd a disappointment by a long cold ride to O: Ct: He: with a view to the contemplated service of yesterday. I was detain’d here on Saturday by sickness & on Sunday Morng found myself too unwell for too long a ride. My health is now better & I have no doubt I shall be able to attend at the Ct: He: next sunday for wh I have made arrangements. With...