1To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 2 November 1794 (Madison Papers)
As I hear there is a probability of a new printer being wanted for the House of Representatives, I take the liberty to Solicit Your interest in favour of Mr. Francis Bailey, by whom, You may rest assured, the work of every kind will be executed to perfect Satisfaction. If Mr. Childs and Mr. Swaine should resign the business; I make no doubt but Your influence with Mr. Beckley will be exerted...
2To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 20 May 1795 (Madison Papers)
By Some accident Your kind letter of April 6th was a long time in finding its way hither, having not come to hand ’till the 17th inst. I sincerely thank You for the interest You have taken in favour of Mr. Bailey. He is a good republican and a worthy honest Man, which qualifications, I have thought, entitled him to Some Notice from the Government, in his line of business. I was heartily...
3To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 22 November 1772 (Madison Papers)
If I am not wrongly informed by my memory, I have not seen you since last April. you may recollect I was then undertaking a School at Flatbush on Long Island. I did enter upon the business it is certain and continued in it thirteen days—but—“Long Island I have bid adieu, with all its bruitish brainless crew. The youth of that detested place, are void of reason and of grace, From Flushing hills...
4To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 8 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to enclose to You a copy of Proposals for the publication of a couple of Volumes of Poems shortly to be put to the Press in this city. Perhaps some of Your particular friends in Virginia may be induced, from a view of the Proposals in your hands to subscribe their names. If so, please to have them forwarded to this place by Post, addressed to the Publisher at No. 10....
5To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 3 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
When I mentioned in my few lines to You, dated from my residence in New Jersey on the 22d. of January last, the two Volumes of Poems publishing in this city by Mr. Longworth, I did really think to have had a small box of them at Washington by the middle of february at farthest, with a particular direction of a couple of copies to Yourself bound in an elegant manner. Finding, however, that the...
6To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 10 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
Mrs. Anna Smyth, the Lady of Charles Smyth Esquire, a respectable Citizen of this place, being to Set out in a few days on a tour to Virginia, and expecting to be in Your neighbourhood, either at Washington, or at Montpelier, does me the favour to take under her particular care, to put, or transmit into Your hands, the two little Volumes I mentioned to You in my Letter last Winter, and to...
7To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 12 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
Since my last return from the Canary Islands in 1807 to Charleston and from thence to New York; with my Brigantine Washington, quitting the bustle and distraction of active life, my walks have been confined, with now and then a short excursion, to the neighbourhood of the Neversink hills, and under some old hereditary trees, and on some fields, which I well recollect for sixty Years. During...
8To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 25 July 1791 (Madison Papers)
Some business detains me here a day or two longer from returning to New York. When I come, which I expect will be on Thursday, if you should not have left the city, I will give You a decisive answer relative to printing my paper at the Seat of Govt. instead of N. York. If I can get Mr. Childs to be connected with me on a tolerable plan, I believe I shall sacrifice other considerations, and...
9To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 1 December 1796 (Madison Papers)
Having three or four months Since formed a Resolution to bid adieu for a few Years to some old Trees in Jersey under the shade of which I edited, amongst ditching and grubbing, a small weekly Paper entitled the Jersey Chronicle, I did not know how to employ that interval better than in striking out here with some printer, if such could be found, already engaged in supporting the good old...
10To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 7 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
The two Volumes of Poems that in April last I engaged to have published, are finished, and will be ready for delivery in two or three days. The ten Setts You subscribed for I am rather at a loss how to have safely transmitted to You at Your residence in Virginia, where, I find by the Newspapers, You mean to continue until the end of September. Will You, on receipt of this, send me a line or...