1From James Madison to Noah Webster, [18 January] 1820 (Madison Papers)
In looking over my papers in order to purge, and finally arrange my files, my attention fell on your letter of Aug 20. 1804 in which I was requested to give such information as I could, as to the origin of the change in the Federal Government which took place in 1788. My answer does not appear; the copy of it having been lost, if one was retained as is probable. Will you be so obliging as to...
2To James Madison from Noah Webster, 1 March 1820 (Madison Papers)
Your letter without date, but bearing the post mark Jany. 18. 1820, & addressed to me at New Haven, reached me while in Boston attending the legislature, at their late Session. You will see by the place of the date of this Letter that I reside in Massachusetts. I did not answer your letter while I was in Boston; as I had not with me the letter of which you request a copy. I trust this...
3From James Madison to Noah Webster, 10 March 1826 (Madison Papers)
In my letter of Ocr. 12. 1804. answering an enquiry in yours of Augst. 20. it was stated that “In 1785 I made a proposition with success, in the Legislature (of Virginia) for the appointment of Commissioners to meet at Annapolis, such Commissioners as might be appointed by other States, in order to form some plan for investing Congress with the regulation & taxation of Commerce.” In looking...
4To James Madison from Noah Webster, 17 March 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have this day received a note from you, intended to correct a passage in a former letter to me on the subject of the first proposition made to the legislature of Virginia in 1785 for a convention of Commissioners to regulate the Commerce of the country. For this, please to accept my acknowledgements. By your letter, I perceive you suppose me to be yet in Europe. This is a mistake. I returned...
5Noah Webster to James Madison, 16 October 1829 (Madison Papers)
Having nearly finished the literary works in which I have been many years engaged, the incessant & intense labors of which have occupied all my time, I shall now devote a few minutes to revive the remembrance of a few facts which may have escaped your mind, & to relate a few circumstances which have succeeded those facts. My first acquaintance with you, Sir, was in the autumn of the year 1782,...