141From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, [3 June 1816] (Madison Papers)
I have written you several letters all of which, except one committed to your attention, letters for others. The one excepted requested an answer, and as it has not yet come to hand, and I learn that a late mail was wrecked on its passage, I am apprehensive my letter may have been in it. On the eve of my departure therefore I repeat its contents. It remarked that I had not yet made the...
142From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, [ca. 31] March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Notwithstanding the lapse of time, nothing definitive has taken place, in concert with Mr. Hassler, in relation to Mr. Le Sueur. Mr. Crawford has the subject in hand, and will communicate the result. I can add but little to the public information which goes to you from the official source, and thro’ the press. You will find that specie is at length re-instated in its legitimate functions; at...
143From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 20 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Holley late President of the Transylvania University, being about to take a look at Europe, will pay his respects to you on his arrival in London. The claim given to your civilities by the Station he filled, and the Learned accomplishments which led to it, will be strengthened by his laudable desire to improve his fund of knowledge, as a philosophical enquirer in other Countries, after...
144From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 20 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
It is probably not unknown to you that the Visitors of the University of Virginia, anxious to procure for it Professors, with higher qualifications than might be attainable here, had recourse for a supply in part to Great Britain. They had the good fortune to engage five, all of whom have answered their expectations. One of them, however, Mr. Key professor of Mathematics, though friendly to...
145From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 9 April 1827 (Madison Papers)
In my letter of March 20. I stated the salary allowed to Professors in the University of Virginia to be fifteen hundred dollars per annum. I did not advert to the circumstance, that this amount was limited to those first engaged, and that their successors would be entitled to one thousand only instead of $1500. I hasten to correct the error, that it may lead to no embarrassment in the case...
146From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 12 August 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of June 5. did not arrive before the Visitors who met in July had closed their Session & left the University. I may safely take on me however, to say that they will feel great obligation for your kind efforts to find a proper Professor for the vacant Chair. In the uncertainty of obtaining, without the University itself, a Successor to Mr. Key, the Visitors thought it best to...
147From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 3 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
My last acknowledged yours of June 5. and observed that having appointed Mr. Bonnycastle to the Chair vacated by Mr. Key, a successor to him in that of N. Philosophy was now wanted. We have at present a prospect of filling it without giving you the trouble of further enquiries with that view tho’ it may not be without use to learn the result of those you may have made. In the mean time another...
148From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 14 February 1828 (Madison Papers)
You probably know that a sum of about £2000 St: was placed by Mr. Jefferson in the hands of the Barings, subject to the order of the American Minister in London, for the use of the University of Virginia. Of this deposit, it appears from the information of Mr. King late Secretary of Legation, there remained on the 24th. of June 1826. a balance of £986.18.4. Be so obliging as to inform me,...
149From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 15 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I request you to be pleased to issue a warrant on the appropriations for the relief o Seamen for one hundred & four dollars & twenty one cents, in favor of Saml. Anderson, the holde r of the enclosed bill of exchange, drawn upon me on the 26th. Ult. for the same sum by Hugh Lennox, Agent for Seamen at Jamaica, who is to be charged with the same. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
150From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 2 December 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to request, that in virtue of the power of Attorney of Tobias Lear Esqr. inclosed in my letter to you of the 5 Sept. 1803, there may be remitted to George Long, of Portsmouth (N. H) five hundred dollars from the appropriations for Barbary intercourse; Mr. Lear to be charged with the same and held accountable. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.