61To James Madison from James Breckinridge, 17 January 1820 (Madison Papers)
Your favr. of the 12th. inst. was this moment recd. & I hasten to say in reply to it that your declining to receive the C. seed I promised, will subject me to no sort of inconvenience. I am indeed glad that you have met with an oppo. of obtaining a supply elsewhere. Your Fd. & Sert. RC ( DLC ).
62To James Madison from James Monroe, 16 February 1786 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 16 February 1786. In this letter, mentioned in JM’s letter of 19 March 1786 to Monroe , Monroe proposed a joint purchase of land in the Mohawk Valley from one Taylor. In the letter he also discussed the possibilities of reforming the Confederation and the inadequate powers of the Virginia commissioners if a convention were to undertake such a reform.
63To James Madison from James Maury, 7 October 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 October 1801, Liverpool. Market stagnation following announcement of peace preliminaries has made it impossible to send a price current. Encloses newspapers. RC ( DLC ). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury.
64To James Madison from James W. Clark, 14 January 1817 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James W. Clark. 14 January 1817. “J. W. Clark accepts Mr. Madisons invitation to dine with him on thursday next.” RC ( Nc-Ar : Miscellaneous Papers, ser. 1, 2:85). 1 p. James W. Clark was a Republican representative from North Carolina in the Fourteenth Congress.
65To James Madison from James Monroe, ca. 17 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Ca. 17 December 1812. Lists proposed appointments in the U.S. Army from North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia, Vermont, Ohio, New York, South Carolina, Connecticut, Delaware, and Tennessee. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). 1 p.; undated; date assigned here on the basis of JM’s letter dated 18 Dec. 1812 submitting these appointments to the Senate ( Senate Exec. Proceedings...
66To James Madison from James Maury (Abstract), 20 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
20 April 1805, Liverpool. “I had the honor of writing to you on the 14th ulto. Since the date of the inclosed price current [not found] cotton has continued declining, in consequence of the unusually great importations from the United States. You also have the copy of a bill [not found] brought into parliament by a member of Administration, which I expect will pass into a law.” RC ( DNA : RG...
67To James Madison from James Jarvis, 30 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
Sir may I intrude on you so much as to write you this Letter and I hope you will not take as an insult from me, but my veins swells within me to hear you runn down so, although I am in British Government, yet that does not make me forget my native country, if I should hear a boy of my size say any thing against my country I would die beneath his feet before I would surrender I was formerly of...
68To James Madison from James Maury, 24 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a Copy of the Protest of Charles Remington, late Master of the American Brigantine Vesta & of William Phillips & Edward Munro, Mariners, stating the capture of this Vessel by the British Privateer Lancashire Witch & the names of the Crew taken out of the Vesta & put on board the said Privateer. I have the honor to be With perfect respect Your Mo Ob Servt. DNA :...
69To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 22 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 July 1811, Madeira. Acknowledges receipt of the duplicate of JM’s letter of 28 May . “I feel great satisfaction that the wines I sent to your address are approved & will endeavor to execute your present commission similar to the last by the first good conveyance.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.
70To James Madison from James T. Austin, 10 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 November 1812, Boston. Encloses an offer of his services “as Judge Advocate in the trial of General Hull.” “I am induced to do this not with a view to any pecuniary recompence which may be attached to a discharge of such duty, but by a professional ambition which I hope is not exceptionable.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.; docketed by JM. Enclosure not found.
71James Bayard to James Madison, 18 January 1833 (Madison Papers)
I hope I shall be excused for asking your perusal of the enclosed work upon the Constitution of the United States. It is intended principally for the use of Colleges and schools where the subject has hitherto been much neglected, so that few persons besides lawyers pretend to have any knowledge of the Constitution. At the present time it is peculiarly important that this instrument should be...
72To James Madison from James Madison, Sr., 9 July 1790 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 9 July 1790. Acknowledged in JM to James Madison, Sr., 31 July 1790 . Encloses a letter for Mr. Chew. Inquires about the price of coffee and brown sugar in New York.
73To James Madison from James Madison, Sr., 17 February 1787 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 17 February 1787 . Mentioned in JM’s letter to his father, dated 1 April 1787 . Contained an inquiry concerning the Andover Iron Works, their ability to supply iron, whether they would deliver at Philadelphia, and the price.
74To James Madison from James Holland, 11 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
The undersigned being acquainted with Alfred Balch esqr atty at Law and with his father and family And being informed that he is desirous of going to Europe and of being the bearer of Governmental dispatches, I take pleasure in Stating it as my opinion that he would perform that Service with honor and fidellity. DNA : RG 59—ML—Miscellaneous Letters.
75James Monroe to James Madison, 24 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
Mr Elliott Cresson a very respectable citizen of Philadelphia, with whom I became acquainted there, this sumr, has requested me to give him an introduction to you, which I do with pleasure. He has travelled much in foreign countries, & has acquired much information on interesting subjects, and enjoys the reputation of, & is I think, a worthy man. RC (DLC) .
76[From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Hardy, James Madison, and James Monroe, 4 July 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 4 July 1785 . Entry in SJL reads: “Madison, Monroe & Hardy. Letters of recommendation for W. T. Franklin.” None of these letters has been found; but see TJ to Monroe, 5 July 1785 .]
77To James Madison from James Maury, 18 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor of presenting you with the State of this market for American produce on the 5th. ulto. In this you have the prices of the day for the same, as well as of other articles of import from the United States. With Perfect Respect I have the Honor to be Sir Your most Obedient Servant. The preceding is the full transcription of a document that was previously abstracted in The Papers of...
78To James Madison from James Rush, 2 May 1813 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave, respectfully, to be allowed an expression of the great sense of obligation I feel for the distinguished mark of confidence and favour with which you have been pleased to honor me, by the appointment under the government of the United States lately received at your hands. In tendering you my profound and most respectful acknowledgments for so flattering a notice I have only to add,...
79To James Madison from James Maury, 5 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 May 1802, Liverpool. Encloses prices of imported American articles. “The immensely unprecedented Imports of Cotton, and particularly from Georgia, Carolina & the Mississippi, have already reduced the prices of the less valuable sorts.… Grain & flour seem daily on the decline.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; marked “(duplicate)”; in a clerk’s hand, signed by...
80To James Madison from James Monroe, 8 March 1791 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 March 1791 Offered for sale by Robert K. Black, Upper Montclair, N.J., 1966, with a catalog notation that the one-page letter concerned “the sale of land.” JM’s reply of 12 Apr. 1791 (DLC) makes it clear that Monroe made an inquiry concerning some books on behalf of “Mr. Brackenridge,” and possibly enclosed a list of the desired volumes.
81To James Madison from James Madison, Sr., 17 February 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 17 February 1794. Acknowledged in JM to James Madison, Sr., 10 Mar. 1794 . Asks JM to make inquiries in Philadelphia about purchasing a piano for his sister Frances Taylor Madison. Requests advice on building a gristmill. Asks for information about a threshing mill (probably the model recently procured by Jefferson). Informs JM that apple trees have been purchased. Inquires...
82To James Madison from James Collet, 10 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 December 1810, Dunkirk, France. Refers to a letter he wrote JM’s predecessor on 18 Mar. 1808 “to appoint me to one of the then vacant Consulates in this Country; Of which I have since heard nothing.” Has recently learned that “many, indeed most, of the Ports of this Country are actually void of American Consuls.… From Holland to Bayonne there remains now hardly One American Protector...
83To James Madison from James Maury, 11 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had this honor on the 28th. Ulto. By the London news papers, received this day, we learn that, on the 31st. Ulto., the St. Michaels, with two Messengers on board, from the United States, had been spoken off L’Orient by one of his B. Majestys ships of war. I have no information more authentic than this: nevertheless I rather consider it correct. I have the honor to be with great respect your...
84To James Madison from James Madison, Sr., 3 December 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 3 December 1794. Acknowledged in JM’s 14 Dec. 1794 letter to his father. Asks if JM can contribute financially toward the gristmill that JM’s family planned to build. Inquires about milling JM’s wheat crop.
85To James Madison from James K. Paulding, 20 March 1827 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ From James K. Paulding. Letter not found. 20 March 1827. Calendared in the lists probably made by Peter Force ( DLC , series 7, box 2).
86To James Madison from James Maury, 30 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 30 October 1805, Liverpool. “I had this honor on the 22d. August. The sickness of the Clerk, who assists me in my Consular office, has occasioned a considerable delay in the table of imports & exports for the first six months of this year. I now have the honor to lay it before you, as also a price current for the produce and exports of the United States.” RC ( DNA : RG 59,...
87To James Madison from James C. Mountflorence, 15 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 April 1801, Paris. Mentioned and partially quoted in JM to Rufus King, 24 July 1801 .
88To James Madison from James Madison, 15 May 1794 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you some time past, and my not receivg an answer, conclude, it did not reach Phila. The purpose of it was, that I had it in contemplation, to commence business on my own a/c, and was under the disagreeable necessity of begg. yr assistance. You will please write me immediately on the business. Please direct the letter to the care of Robt Patton Fredbg. From Yr Dependant Nephew RC ( NN ).
89To James Madison from James Maury, 28 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
A Little Schooner under the name of Juliet Capt. Bowen is also arrived from New York with Cotton & Naval Stores. They say she sailed on the 14th. Ulto. I am &c DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches, Liverpool.
90To James Madison from James Madison, Sr., 24 December 1785 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 24 December 1785. Mentioned by JM in his answer of 27 December . His father apparently raised a question about the petition for a final settlement of the Harry Beverley estate.