1To James Madison from George Tucker, 16 May 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have requested Mr. Milligan, the bookseller to forward to you a copy of a work which I have lately published, & of which I beg leave to ask your acceptance. With sentiments of profound respect, I am Sir, your obedt. Servt. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. [George Tucker], Essays on Various Subjects of Taste, Morals, and National Policy (Georgetown, D.C., 1822; Shoemaker 10492). George Tucker...
2To James Madison from George Tucker, 7 October 1826 (Madison Papers)
It is not without reluctance that I obtrude my individual concerns on your notice at any time, & more especially when your duties have been so laborious & impat[i]ent as at present. I can only say that if the business with which I am about to trouble you should interfere with higher objects, I should wish it postponed. In the course of the last year Mr. Brockenbrough informed me that the rule...
3To James Madison from George Tucker, 19 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
I at length return you Dr. Cooper’s new work with many thanks for your goodness in giving me so early an opportunity of seeing it, & not without some self-reproach for keeping it so long. A wish however to give it a close examination tempted me thus to abuse the permission you gave me. It is a good introduction to the study of political economy. The doctrines are at once liberal & sound, and...
4To James Madison from George Tucker, 27 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
As Mr. Harrison, who will deliver this is a candidate for the professorship which Mr. Long is about to vacate, I beg leave to submit to your inspection a testimonial in his favor from your venerable predecessor, who, in consequence of his frequent visits in the neighbourhood of Lynchburg, and his frequent intercourse with Mr. Harrison’s father, had such good opportunities of forming an opinion...
5George Tucker to James Madison, 19 September 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letter, directed to me at Baltimore was duly received, as well as that it referred to, (inclosing a copy of the first draught of the Constitution, & your subscription to the Museum.) on my return to this place. The draught of the Constitution was very acceptable to us, as I have no doubt it will be to our readers. It will appear next week, accompanied with a notice of the most prominent...
6George Tucker to James Madison, 29 March 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have for some time past had serious thoughts of undertaking a biography of Mr. Jefferson, believing that such a work would be interesting to the politicians of all countries, and to every class of American readers– But its success would materially depend upon the aid that would be afforded by those surviving friends who had longest & most intimately known him. In this respect I believe you...
7George Tucker to James Madison, 21 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
I am sorry to say that I have not been able to find, among the papers of R. H. Lee, deposited in the University, that part of his correspondence with Mr. Pendleton to which you refer. As the papers are not arranged according to any known rule, and are not always endorsed, it became necessary to examine the whole mass, which I believe I did with sufficient accuracy yesterday & today to warrant...
8George Tucker to James Madison, 17 September 1832 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter to the Executive committee upon a small but most desirable change in the lecture hours, has been signed, as you will perceive, by all the Professors, except Dr. Blaettermann, & has already been approved by Mr. Randolph. Dr. B. is unwilling to give up any part of the 2 hours, but as he has only 7 students out of about 105, (the present number of matriculates) & 6 of these...
9George Tucker to James Madison, 12 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
My delay in returning you my thanks for your very obliging letter & its valuable contents has ill accorded with the grateful feelings they inspired. I consider that the opinions expressed in both those letters as well as the reasons by which they are supported will make them a most valuable addition to my forthcoming work. I had not been unmindful of Mr. Jefferson’s repeated references to the...
10George Tucker to James Madison, 23 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
I send herewith 92 pages of my manuscript for your leisurely inspection—It is far from my wish to subject you to the trouble of criticising it, or even of investigating its accuracy—but I thought that a cursory perusal might enable you to detect gross errors, or to perceive important omissions, & might not be altogether uninteresting. There is not much which will not require retouching as to...
11George Tucker to James Madison, 13 October 1833 (Madison Papers)
If you have found time to look over the manuscript with which I ventured to trouble you in July, the return of Dr. Dunglison’s carriage offers a good opportunity of sending it to this place. If you would rather keep it longer, it is not important that I should receive it immediately. I have heard with great pleasure that your health has still further improved, and I propose, at the end of the...
12George Tucker to James Madison, 9 November 1833 (Madison Papers)
You perceive that I have availed myself of your permission to keep the pamphlet which you kindly lent me, to the last moment of the fortnight. It has afforded me very full information of the views & motives of the political party with which you then acted, & exhibits them under a very different aspect from that presented by Judge Marshall. I am sensible, at every step I advance in Mr....
13George Tucker to James Madison, 3 June 1835 (Madison Papers)
Your volumes of newspapers, which I return by the stage to morrow, I have kept an unreasonable time—but in truth I found that they communicated so much information which it was important for me to possess, and which I could obtain no where else, that I ventured to trespass thus on your goodness. The delay was somewhat increased by an injury which one of them sustained in its binding by a fall...
14George Tucker to James Madison, 1 February 1836 (Madison Papers)
Your long intimacy with Mr. Jefferson, your accordance with him in the principles of civil government, your cordial co-operation in carrying those principles into effect, and lastly, the kindness with which you have answered my inquiries and guided my researches, make it peculiarly proper that I should address to you the following pages. In submitting to you the biography of that friend of...
15George Tucker to James Madison, 2 April 1836 (Madison Papers)
Professor Palfrey of Harvard College being desirous of paying his respects to you on his return to Boston from Louisiana, I take great pleasure in introducing him to your personal acquaintance—His character is no doubt already well known to you. I beg leave to present my respects to Mrs. Madison & to subscribe myself your respectful & obed. Servt. RC (DLC) .
16George Tucker to James Madison, 17 June 1836 (Madison Papers)
Having some time ago obtained your permission to inscribe my life of Mr. Jefferson to you, I herewith send you a copy of the form in which I shall execute my purpose, if no part of it is deemed objectionable by you. The printing of the 1st. vol. proceeds so slowly, in consequence of the loss of time in transmitting the proof sheets between this place & Philadelphia, it will be 3 or 4 weeks now...