1From James Madison to Henry B. Bascom, 27 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 19th. inst. saying that the Trustees of the College recently established in Union Town have been pleased to call it by my name. Regarding every new Institution for the wholsome instruction of youth as a gain to the cause of national improvement and to the stability and prosperity of our free System of Government, I feel that my name is greatly honoured by such...
2From James Madison to Henry B. Bascom, 21 July 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of June 26. inclosing a copy of the Charter of the College, having arrived during an absence from which I am just returned, I could not sooner acknowledge it. It gives me pleasure to find that the Trustees are about to attach to the Institution, an Agricultural Department, an improvement well meriting a place among the practical ones, which the lights of the age, and the genius of...
3From James Madison to Henry B. Bascom, 10 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Ocr. 19. was recd. in due time. The acknowledgment of it has been delayed by a wish to accompany it with a Copy as requested of the Enactments of our University, which I did not obtain till two days ago. I congratulate you on the encouraging prospect which dawns on the Infant Establishment under your presiding care. A temporary deficiency in the articles of Apparatus & Library,...