1To James Madison from Alexander Balmain, 4 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to solicit your interest with the President, in favor of Major Edmund Taylor. His name, I am informed, stands on the list of candidates for an appointment in the land office, in the Western country. I would not venture to recommend him to you, Sir did I not know him to be a man of real worth. Honest, virtuous, modest & capable, he served his country, as a lieutenant under General...
2To James Madison from Alexander Balmain, 8 December 1794 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you, as I said I would, by Mr. Adam Douglass one of our Merchants, but, to my great Mortification, he did not deliver the letter, & brought it back to me. I waited on Doctor Baldwin with the money you left in my hands as a compensation for his Professional Services. The Doctor said it was perfectly satisfactory, & that he had made no charge against you upon his books. I am now to thank...