1151James Madison to William Allen, 27 June 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have just drawn a check on the Bank for $60. Having only fifty to my credit there I must request the favor of you to deposit the additional ten to with friendly respects please enquire for a box forwarded for Mrs. M. by the Steamboat & send it on— FC (DLC) .
1152James Madison to William F. Gray, 1 August 1831 (Madison Papers)
It is so long since I asked the favr. of you to let me know the balance I am in debt, that I suspect the letter may have miscarried. In renewing the request, I now add a further one, that you will be so good as to forward a Ream of letter paper of the former size and quality, by the first convenient opportunity With friendly respects FC (DLC) .
1153From James Madison to Albert Gallatin (Abstract), 23 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
23 May 1805, Department of State . “I have the honor to request, that you will be pleased to cause Seven thousand dollars, from the appropriations for foreign intercourse, to be remitted to Sir Francis Baring & Co. the Bankers of this Department in London.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. On 30 May 1805 JM asked Gallatin for similar warrants for $3,000 to be remitted to...
1154From James Madison to José Rafael Revenga, 11 November 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Monday, 11 November 1811. Invites Revenga to dine next Friday at 4 P.M. Requests a reply. Printed copy ( Cristóbal L. Mendoza, ed., Las primeras misiones diplomaticas de Venezuela [2 vols.; Caracas, 1962], 2:68). In Spanish. For an account of the dinner, see Manuel Pérez Vila, José Rafael Revenga (1786–1852) (Caracas, 1953), pp. 16–17.
1155From James Madison to Jacob Ridgway, 10 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Jacob Ridgway. 10 December 1805, Department of State. “I have received your letter of the 9th. September. It was the meaning of my letter to which it refers, not in any event to incur a further expence in detaining the Ship Mac, and that if the owner, or his representative would not reimburse the expence before incurred, to suffer him to take her without such reimbursement.” Letterbook...
1156From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 6 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to request that you cause a warrant to be issued in favor of Saml. H. Smith, payable out of the appropriations for printing the laws of the U: States, for one thousand dollars. The sd: Smith to be charged accordingly on the Books of the Treasury. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
1157From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of the treasury in response to House resolution of 18 Jan. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Received and tabled on 1 Feb. ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.; Washington, 1834-56). , 11th Cong., 2d sess., 1367). Printed in ASP American State Papers:...
1158From James Madison to P. H. Jones, [post–6 May 1823] (Madison Papers)
The enclosed note was recd. from Genl. Js. Taylor of Kentucky with a request that if not paid it might be conveyed to you. Col: Dade under the circumstances of the case, with respect to which he has written to Kentucky, does not chuse to take up the note. It is accordingly put under this cover. With respect. Draft ( DLC ). Undated; conjectural day and month assigned based on mention of this...
1159From James Madison to the Senate, 8 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Commissions having issued during the recess of the Senate to the following persons I now nominate them to the offices respectively annexed to their names. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM , listing forty-six appointments (printed in Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United...
1160From James Madison to Joseph Borden, 25 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 May 1804, Department of State. “Your letter of the 7th. inst. [not found] and the papers annexed to it have come to hand, and according to your request will be forwarded to Paris to Mr. Skipwith, Agent of claims there, to be by him laid before the Commissioners.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
1161From James Madison to Armand Duplantier, 26 May 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 May 1810. Acknowledged in Duplantier to JM, 21 July 1810 . Makes inquiries about the surveys of Lafayette’s Louisiana lands.
1162From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1793 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 29 April 1793, Orange. Acknowledged in Jefferson to JM, 13 May 1793 . In his list of letters to Jefferson (DLC: Rives Collection, Madison Papers), JM noted that this letter concerned “political sentiments of Va.” Received by Jefferson 8 May (Jefferson’s Epistolary Record [DLC: Jefferson Papers]).
1163James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
We are very sorry for the cause that detains you from the From the attendance you wished not to omit, but it is the request of us all that you consult your health as the first duty. With best wishes RC ( DLC : Nicholas P. Trist Papers).
1164From James Madison to Mahlon Dickerson, 15 February 1817 (Madison Papers)
Objects interesting to the United States requiring that the Senate should be in session on the 4th of March next, to receive such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive, your attendance in the Senate Chamber in this City on that day is accordingly requested. RC ( NjHi : Dickerson Papers). In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM . Mahlon Dickerson (1770–1853), a graduate of...
1165From James Madison to Henry Craig, 12 May 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 May 1801, Department of State. Encloses copies of documents in cases of Samuel Gawler and Daniel Clark, American citizens reportedly impressed by British naval officers at Martinique; orders Craig to “lose no time” in trying to obtain their release. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p. Enclosures not found. JM wrote Craig again on 16 June 1801 concerning seaman Samuel Culver...
1166From James Madison to Gabriel Moore, 10 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
J.M. presents his respects to Mr. Moore & incloses an answer to Mr. W. Price which he requested might be conveyed thro’ his Representative in Congs. Draft ( DLC ). Subjoined to JM to William Price, 10 Jan. 1828 .
1167From James Madison to Landon Carter, 7 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 23. Ult: and in obedience to its request, committed to the flames the paper delivered to my Custody, in Orange. The seal of it had never been broken. With my thanks for the Obliging sentiments you have been pleased to express, I remain, very respectfully Yr. Obedt. Servt. Catalog--Superior Galleries Auction.
1168From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 12 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 May 1801. Acknowledged in Pichon to JM, 17 May 1801 . Relays president’s directions concerning French ship La Sémillante at Norfolk. Returns commissions and conveys exequaturs from president.
1169From James Madison to Michael Gratz, 3 January 1781 (Madison Papers)
MS (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Recd. of Mr. Michael Gratz four thousand eight hundred and thirty seven continental dollars, being part of ten thousand dollars due on a draught in his favor by the Virginia delegates on the Auditors of that State, four thousand dollars having been received before. the remaining ballance eleven hundred sixty three. On 14 November 1780 ( Expense Account...
1170From James Madison to Richard Forrest, 9 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 9 August 1810. Acknowledged in Forrest to JM, 15 Aug. 1810 . Comments on Forrest’s offer to go to West Florida as an agent.
1171James Madison to James Robertson, Jr., 27 March 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 8th; but it was not until the 23d. inst: The veil which was originally over the draft of the Resolutions offered in 1798 to the Virga. Assembly having been long since removed, I may say, in answer to your enquiries that it was penned by me; and that as it went from me, the 3d. Resolution contained the word—"alone"—which was stricken out by the House of...
1172From James Madison to John Dawson, ca. 16 February 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 16 February 1794. Acknowledged in Dawson to JM, 25 Feb. 1794 . Reports that the House of Representatives on 5 Feb. postponed consideration of JM’s commercial discrimination resolutions until the first Monday in March.
1173From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 6 January 1785 (Madison Papers)
This day has put an end to our tedious Session. The principal Acts which have passed since my last, are 1. An Act remitting 1/2 of the Tax for the year 1785 within which was to have been collected that tax, and the tax of 1784 postponed into it. 2. An Act amending the tax on law proceedings &c. 3. An Act for clearing the navigation of Potowmac River. 4 An Act for clearing the navigation of...
1174From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 12 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to request that you cause a warrant to be issued, payable out of the appropriations for Mediterranian purposes, for five thousand dollars, in favor of James Davidson, he being the holder of the enclosed bill drawn by Tobias Lear, Consul General of the United States, at Algiers, and dated the 13th. of February last: the said Lear to be charged accordingly on the Books of the...
1175From James Madison to Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard, 8 August 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 August 1801, Department of State, Washington. Informs the firm that Charles Pinckney, having been appointed minister to Spain, is authorized to draw six thousand dollars for his outfit and nine thousand dollars for his annual salary. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p.
1176James Madison to John Sergeant, 30 November 1833 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his best respects to Mr. Sergeant, thanks him for the Copy of his able and instructive Address, to the Alumni Association of Nassau Hall, in Sepr. last. FC (DLC) .
1177James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 5 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
We are filling out for Richd. 2 Waggons with 4 Hhds. of Tobo. wch. I hope will find a good Market. This neighborhood has been favored with the finest planting season, and if the crops are not generally pitched, it must be owing to a backwardness of the plant beds, which I presume from the late frosting weather has happened in but a few instances, if in any. I ask your attention to the inclosed...
1178From James Madison to James Monroe, 17 December 1797 (Madison Papers)
As I do not send expressly to the post Office on the return of the Mail from Charlottesville your favor of the 10th. did not get to hand in time to be answered on friday last. It is perfectly convenient for me to furnish a draft on Philada. having kept the little fund there as an appropriation to your use. The bill I offered you for 250 dollars was delivered to Mr. Jefferson with a view to go...
1179James Madison to William B. Sprague, 5 February 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. Sprague, returns his thanks for the little pamphlet on the "Colonization Society". The interesting object, could not be more ably or impressively inculcated than is done by Doc. Nolk. J. M. adds his thanks to Mr. Sprague for the other pamphlets previously received, which breathe the eloquent strains characterizing other productions of the same origin. Draft...
1180James Madison to Richard Smith, 1 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
(promissory note) $1200 Sixty days after date I promise to pay to the order of Richard Smith Cashier of the office of Discount and Deposit Washington, at said office, the sum of Twelve hundred Dollars, for value received— Ms (NN) .