1James Madison to James K. Paulding, 1 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 6th. inst; and feel myself very safe in joining your other friends in their advice on the Biographical undertaking you meditate. The plan you adopt is a valuable improvement on the prevailing examples; which have too much usurped the functions of the Historian; and by omitting the private features of character, and anecdotes which as condiments always add...
2James Madison to James K. Paulding, 1 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
Much curiosity and some comment have been excited by the marvellous identities between a "Plan of Govt. proposed by Charles Pinckney in the Convention of 1787, as published in the Journals, with the text of the Constitution, as finally agreed to. I find among my pamphlets a small one entitled "Observations on the Plan of Govt. submitted to the Federal Convention in Philada. &c. by Mr. Charles...
3James Madison to James K. Paulding, 6 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter answering yours of Apl. 6., in which I requested you to make an enquiry concerning a small pamphlet of Chs. Pinckney, printed at the close of the Fedl. Convention of 1787, it has occurred to me that the pamphlet might not have been put in circulation, but only presented to his friends &c. In that way I may have become possessed of the Copy to which I referred as in a damaged...
4James Madison to James K. Paulding, 27 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
With your favor of the 20th. inst: I recd the Volume of Pamphlets containing that of Mr Chs. Pinckney, for which I am indebted to your obliging researches. I have not yet sufficiently examined the pamphlet in question, but have no doubt that it throws light on the object to which it has relation. I had previously recd yours of the 13th. and must remark that you have not rightly seized the...
5James Madison to James K. Paulding, 1 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
According to my promise I send you the enclosed Sketch. It was my purpose to have enlarged some parts of it, & to have revised, probably blotted out others. But the present crippled State of my health, makes me shun the task; And the uncertainties of the future induce me to commit the paper, crude as it is, to your friendly discretion. Wishing to know that it has not miscarried, drop a single...