1From James Madison to John Blair Smith, 27 May 1785 (Madison Papers)
I have before me your note requesting my information relative to a fact asserted on your part, and denied on that of Carter H. Harrison Esqr. Your own feelings will suggest to you my motives for wishing not to be made a Witness or Judge in any case where the characters of Gentlemen are concerned. Under the circumstances of the present in which I am only called on by one of the parties, &...
2From James Madison to John Blair Smith, ca. 25 November 1786 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. ca. 25 November 1786. Mentioned in John Blair Smith’s letter of ca. 10 December 1786 to JM . Related information concerning the political condition of the United States, probably news of Shays’s Rebellion. Inquired after the progress of Dabney Carr at Hampden-Sydney Academy.