1James Madison to Jared Sparks, 24 April 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have just received your favor of April 16th. There is on my files no letter from me to General Washington dated December 9th. 1786. There is one dated December 7th. 1786 which relates to his appointment to the Philadelphia Convention, and which is acknowledged as of the 7th. in his letter to me of the 16th. Should my letter of the 7th. have been mislaid or lost a copy of it will be furnished...
2James Madison to Jared Sparks, 8 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of Mar. 30. In answer to your enquiries "respecting the part acted by Govr. Morris (whose Life you observe you are writing) in the Federal Convention of 1787, and the political doctrines maintained by him", it may be justly said that he was an able, an eloquent, and an active member, and shared largely in the discussions succeeding the 1st. of July, previous to...
3From James Madison to Jared Sparks, 30 May 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 2 2d. has been duly received. I concur, without hesitation, in your remarks on the Speech of 73 pages, and in the expediency of not including it among the papers selected for the press. Nothing but an extreme delicacy towards the author of the Draft, who, no doubt, was Col: Humphreys, can account for the respect shewn to so strange a production. I have not yet found either...
4James Madison to Jared Sparks, 1 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the 24. Ult. and inclose the little pamphlet by Govr. Morris which it refers to. Unless it is to be printed entire in the Volumes you are preparing, I should wish to replace it in the Collection from which it is taken. Of other unofficial writings by him I have but the single recollection, that he was a writer for the Newspapers in 1780 (being then a member of...
5James Madison to Jared Sparks, 13 March 1828 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving a few days ago, your favor of Feb. 27th. from Washington. It was quite unexpected, the Newspapers having announced, without any subsequent contradiction, your departure for Europe. Since my last to you, I have recd. a letter from Col. Storrow, in answer to an enquiring one, in which he informs me that the Packet you committed to him is still in his hands, adding...
6James Madison to Jared Sparks, 7 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Having reason to beleive that several of my letters have miscarried during the casualties of the Season, and having just ascertained, that one written, some time ago to Mr E. Everett of Boston never reached him, it occurs, that my answer to your letter of on the subject of Mr Pinckney may have had a like fate. Say by a line whether it has, or has not. In the former case, I will send you a...
7James Madison to Jared Sparks, 25 November 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 14th. instant. The simple question is whether the Draft sent by Mr Pinkney to Mr. Adams and printed in the Journal of the Convention could be the same with that presented by him to the Convention on the 29th. day of May 1787. And I regret to say that the evidence that that was not the case is irresistible. Take as a sufficient example, the important article,...
8James Madison to Jared Sparks, 28 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
Since your departure for Europe I have found the letters from General Washington which I thought were missing, and of which you were so obliging as to promise me copies from the original drafts among his papers. These particular letters had been separated from the others, and the circumstance forgotten. That you may avoid the trouble of fulfilling your promise I drop you this information,...
9From James Madison to Jared Sparks, 26 January 1824 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to the Editor of the North American Review, and thanks him for the little pamphlet on the subject of colonizing the free people of Colour, which anticipates the opportunity of seeing its contents in the work not yet come to hand for which he is a subscriber. The pamphlet furnishes much valuable matter both for the information and for the reflection of the...
10James Madison to Jared Sparks, 27 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 16th inst. inclosing a copy of the letter of Mr Chas Pinckney to Mr Adams, accompanying the draft of a Constitution for the U.S. and describing it, as essentially the draft proposed by him to the Federal Convention of 1787. The letter to Mr Adams was new to me. Abundant evidence I find exists of material variances between the two drafts, and I am sorry that...
11James Madison to Jared Sparks, 8 April 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of Mar. 8. came duly to hand. I congratulate you on your success at London & Paris, in obtaining materials, no where else to be found and so essential to the history of our Revolution. I have been looking over such of the letters of Genl. Washington to me as do not appear on his files. They amount to 28. besides some small confidential notes. Most of the letters are of some...
12James Madison to Jared Sparks, 5 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of July 16. was duly recd. The acknowledgment of it has awaited your return from your tour to Quebec, which I presume has by this time taken place. Inclosed is the exact copy you wish of the draft of an address prepared for President Washington at his request, in the year 1792, when he meditated a retirement at the expiration of his first term. You will observe that (with a few...
13From James Madison to Jared Sparks, 6 August 1827 (Madison Papers)
I find by a letter from Col. Peyton of Richmond that he is on a Northern tour which will carry him to Boston. I mention the circumstance that in case you have any communications you wish to make, for which he would be a conveyance preferable to that of the mail, they may be put into his hands. He will readily take charge of them; and being a particular acquaintance of Mrs. Randolph, now with...
14From James Madison to Jared Sparks, 5 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I received two days ago your favour of Decr. 29. That of Augst. 25. came also safe to hand. I did not then acknowledge it, because I expected soon to have an occasion for doing it on the receit. of the letters since put into the hands of Col. Storrow. Having heard nothing from him on the subject I conclude that he retains them for a better conveyance than he had found; though I am not without...