1From James Madison to Richard Bland Lee, 20 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 15th. Having ever entertained for you the respect & friendly wishes to which it recurs, I shall not fail to drop a few lines to Judges Duvall & Todd on the subject of it; tho’ in so doing, I make an exception to the rule I am anxious to maintain, of retiring altogether from such interpositions, and can probably add little to their knowledge of the grounds on...
2Thomas Jefferson to Richard Bland Lee, 11 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted to you, dear Sir, for your excellent oration on the 4 th of July, and still more for the indulgence with which you have been so good as to view what relates to myself. in a new government as ours was, and especially in one somewhat ambiguous in it’s form, it was to be expected that there would be diff er ences of opinion as to the direction in which it should be administered....
3From John Adams to Richard Bland Lee, 10 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Oration on the red letter day in our national Calendar, which I have read with mingled—emotions, an invisible Spirit seemed to suggest to me in my left ear. Nil admirari, nil Contemni—Another Spirit at my right elbow, seemed to whisper in my ear—Digite compesce labellum.— But I will open my lips, and will say, that your modesty and delicacy have restrained you from doing...
4From James Madison to Richard Bland Lee, 5 August 1819 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 2d, with a copy of your able and interesting Oration on the last anniversary of our Independence. The existing tranquility and harmony on the public feeling, the result of the propitious evanescence of the causes of discord, is a just subject of congratulation. It is to be wished that they may never be interrupted by the worst of all political divisions; one...
5From James Madison to John P. Van Ness, Richard Bland Lee, and Tench Ringgold, 23 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 16th. inclosing a letter from Messrs. Carroll, Law & May, with your answer. It is very agreeable to learn that your progress and prospects are so favorable to the undertaking committed to you. In carrying into execution the law for rebuilding the public Edifices, it will best comport with its object & its provisions, not to deviate from the models destroyed,...
6From James Madison to John P. Van Ness, Richard Bland Lee, and Tench Ringgold, 10 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
For carrying into execution the act of Congress entitled “An Act making appropriations for repairing or rebuilding the public buildings within the City of Washington,” I do hereby authorize you, or any two of you, to borrow, with the approbation of the President of the United States, such sums of money as may be necessary, within the limit, and to be applied to the objects of the appropriation...
7From John Jay to Richard Bland Lee, 7 September 1812 (Jay Papers)
In your obliging answ r . to my Letter of the Feb y . last, mention is made of a work of your Brother, then in the press— viz t . memoirs of the War in the southern Departm t . The Subject and the author, naturally excited my attention and my Desire to procure a Copy— I have not learned that it has yet been published, nor seen any thing relative to it, in our public papers. I presume therefore...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Bland Lee, 20 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 16th. and should have been gratified by being enabled in any way to do what might relieve the health of General Lee; but in the additional embargo law, lately passed, a clause was inserted, expressly repealing the power formerly given the President of granting special licenses to vessels to go out in ballast. the coasting voyages alone are now permitted,...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Bland Lee, [19–27 December 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
I believe it would be adviseable to confine the provision to Loan Office Certificates & final settlements. They may be thus described “Cer[ti]ficates of unsubscribed debt commonly called Loan Office Certificates, and final settlements.” With regard to Register’s Certificates as well as those issued under the Funding Act the existing practice of the Treasury affords the desired relief. The...
10From James Madison to Richard Bland Lee, 1 December 1788 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 1 December 1788 . Acknowledged in Lee to JM, 12 Dec. 1788 . Expresses reservations about the intended publication of an extract of his letter to Turberville of 2 Nov. 1788 . Reports that moderation has prevailed in the elections in the eastern states.