1To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 16 January 1800 (Madison Papers)
If any information it may be in my power to furnish you or any services I can render you here, should be deemed by you a sufficient equivalent, I shall be happy in future in being numbered among your correspondents. The present moment however affords nothing interesting. The fate of Mr Nicholas’s motion for disbanding the additional army, you will have seen in the newspapers. As also the...
2To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 7 March 1800 (Madison Papers)
Your letter like mine was a long time reaching its destination, owing I presume to the state of the roads. The newspapers will have announced to you from time to time the progress of business here. The Bankrupt Bill after every out of doors effort past the H of Reps by the casting vote of the Speaker only. On the question for its second reading in the Senate it would have been rejected, but...
3To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 29 October 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 October 1802 , “ Rasberry Plain .” Introduces Charles Fenton Mercer, “the son of our late friend Judge Mercer,” who is about to embark for England on important family business and will carry any dispatches JM might wish to send by him. RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Federalist Virginian Charles Fenton Mercer (1778–1858), son of Revolutionary patriot James Mercer, graduated from the College of New Jersey...
4To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 17 January 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1802, Jersey Avenue. Encloses letter from Dr. Dinmore; believes “he is very competent to the office he solicits” but adds, “I have heard of other candidates of equal merits and fitness, among these I have been requested to mention the name of Mr Robert Monroe of this City.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1801–9, filed under “Dinmore”). RC 1 p.; docketed by Jefferson, “S. T....
5To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 8 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 May 1802. Recommends the bearer, Lund Washington, “as a person desirous and capable of filling the office of a Clerke in your Department should any vacancy occur.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p. This was probably the Lund Washington (b. 1767) who was the son of Robert Washington and Alice Strother Washington of Green Hill, Virginia (Abbot, Papers of Washington: Presidential Series , 1:369 n. 1).
6To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 2 April 1800 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you the Bill concerning the Presendential [ sic ] elections, as it has finally passed the Senate. Some of its early friends protested against it, after the 7th Section was stricken out, enough to have rejected it. Yet they either evaded the vote or voted for it declaring their abhorrence of it but expressing a hope that the House of Reps would make it better. Livermore was the only...
7To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 23 April 1800 (Madison Papers)
The presedential election bill of the Senate labours in the house of Reps. A motion to postpone it till next Session was on Friday last lost 52 to 48 many who voted agt the postponement declare themselves opposed to the bill and that they will not vote for it in any thing like its present form. It is now in the hands of a select committee and a new project is I am told agreed on. I have not...