71To James Madison from Henry Lee, 3 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have been detained here by a violent cold taken on my journey & of which I am just recovering. The solicitude all feel for the country at this portentous moment I share. It seems to me that in yr. hands is committed our destiny. If you play yr. game well you bestow happiness to yr. country & acquire the only reward grateful I am sure to yr. mind. Personally I feel interested in the issue,...
72To James Madison from Henry Lee, 10 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I do not know whether any information I can give will be to you intelligence. But I am so persuaded of its being a duty in the present situation of our country, that the man best calculated to reproduce harmony & with it strength & happiness to the U States should hear from any man disposed to tell him the truth what he beleives that I again address you. The removal of the seat of govt. as...
73To James Madison from Henry Lee, March 1808 (Madison Papers)
The last letr. from my family commands me to make the only effort in my power to preserve a life, the loss of which will bear me to the grave with unceasing woe. We shd. have gone to the Bermudas where I have a fast friend who had offered me his house even purse. But our condition with G Britain arrested my plan. My Physician advises So. America, as New-Orleans the only place within our...
74To James Madison from Henry Lee, March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I enclose for yr. confidential perusal the letr. on which was founded mine to the P. As I said last night, my answer much in the way, as you suggested is deemed I presume satisfactory. I also enclose the Ps. note to me with an endorsement which please to sign if not disagreeable. It is the only document I hold to support the assurances contained in my answer. I return the passport, as it not...
75To James Madison from Henry Lee, 21 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I find here considerable distress at the issue to Mr Rs mission. All prospect it would succeed, & that its success would lead to amicable settlement of all our disputes, so that commerce might be resumed, Proving abortive they fear ill humor will overcome & at last war commence. They wait with anxiety to read the correspondence between you & Mr. R. in which they hope to find much disposition...
76To James Madison from Henry Lee, 21 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Doctor Wellford having conducted the medical department of the Militia Army in 94, I owe it to my sense of his faithful services, to comply with his wish of my letter to you notifying his desire to conduct one branch of the same department in the Army now raising. But I am sure you so well know this gentlemans character & ability that any commendation of him to you is needless. Nevertheless...
77To James Madison from Henry Lee, 22 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
It belongs to me to try to aid those I esteem & who stand in need of it. Such is the case with Mr. Clark. He was with me the other day & really I think yr. law officer has treated him out of the way. Mr Rodney talked of returning directly & promised as soon as he did return to finish his affair. Now he writes he shall not return till called for by the P. In this condition what can Mr C do,...
78To James Madison from Henry Lee, 17 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
Hoping that a change in our foreign relations might produce a change in our system, I postponed my intended trip to the islands to this winter. My expectation having failed finding no foreign vessel bound to the islands I wish to visit, I despair of success, unless I can be permitted to go out in one of our own sea vessels chartered for the purpose expressly prohibited from taking any thing on...
79To James Madison from Henry Lee, 11 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
You will soon be placed in a station first in honor as first in responsibility & at a period full of difficulty & danger. On yr. magnanimity yr. wisdom & your pure patriotism the good Americans of all political partys look for releif & comfort. They confidently expect this boon from your long tried character. I am one among those who must wish, as well as most expect it. It is in yr. power to...
80Henry Lee to James Madison, 30 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
To ensure your well-pleased extension of the usual kindness of your hospitality to Mr. Alfred Langdon Elwyn (the bearer of this note) I have only to mention that he is the grandson of the great patriot of New Hampshire, with whose public & private virtues you <...> doubtly familiar. Returned from a long and studious residence in England & France, he is desirous of seeing our university, and of...