1To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, August 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. August 1811. Mentioned in Astor to Jefferson, 14 Mar. 1812 (DLC: Jefferson Papers) as an application to the president for permission to import from St. Joseph’s goods purchased for the Indian trade which were being excluded from the U.S. by the Nonintercourse Act. JM apparently replied that Congress had left no power with the executive to grant permission.
2To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, 27 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
From a belive that the merrits of the undertaking of the american furr company may not have ben Perfectly understood in as much as the Same is Rather abstract from genral Buisness. I tak the Liberty to Sumit to you a Sctch thereof in order that you may read it when at Laisure and thereby be better enabled to judge of its Merits and the Importanes of the objects embraced in it. It is well known...
¶ From John Jacob Astor. Letter not found. 1 October 1814, New York. Offered for sale in Julia Sweet Newman catalog no. 209 (1966), item 7, where it is described as an autograph letter, signed.
4To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, 3 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honnor to Rive your letter of the 29 ulto in which you are pleased To express a wish that I would Remit to Mr. Gallatin on your account A Bill on Paris for 338 Francs—which I will Do on my Return to new york and of which I will have the pleasure to Transmit to you an account. I have the Honnor to be Most Respectfully Sir your obtd Humbl Servt PS. Would you have the goodness to...