721To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 April 1823 (Madison Papers)
The anxieties expressed in the inclosed letter are pointed to 3. articles. 1. the size of the lecturing rooms. 2. depositories for the Apparatuses. 3. the arrangement of the seats for the Students. 1. If we could have foretold what number of students would come to our University, and what proportion of them would be in attendance on any one Professor at one time, lecturing rooms might have...
722From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The anxieties expressed in the inclosed letter are pointed to 3. articles. 1. the size of the lecturing rooms. 2. depositories for the Apparatuses. 3. the arrangement of the seats for the Students. 1. if we could have foretold what number of students would come to our University, and what proportion of them would be in attendance on any one Professor at one time, lecturing rooms might have...
723To James Madison from William C. Somerville, 9 May 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty to send you by the mail a volume on the past & present state of France which you will gratify me by accepting. My opportunities of procuring information were too limitted during the short stay which my circumstances admitted of my making in France, to justify even the hope of having avoided all errours of opinion, but I trust there will be found no sentiment in the...
724To James Madison from William Eustis, 10 May 1823 (Madison Papers)
I cannot resist the temptation to write you. The revolution of political sentiment demonstrated in the elections for the ensuing year, the triumph of Rebublican [ sic ] principles throughout the state and even at the head quarters, must be highly acceptable to every friend of our civil institutions, and to no one more than to you. In looking round I can find no one of my political friends with...
725To James Madison from Francis Preston, 15 May 1823 (Madison Papers)
A very unfortunate controversy has arisen between the Representatives of the late Colo. Wm. Campbell and Colo. Shelby of Kentucky in relation to the Conduct of the former at the Battle of Kings mountain fought in South Carolina during the revolutionary War. Some private letters of Colo. Shelby, were inadvertently published which charge him a shamefull dereliction of Duty at the most critical...
726To James Madison from William F. Gray, 17 May 1823 (Madison Papers)
By this mail I send to you the January no. of the North American Review. I am not certain whether or not it was sent before. I have negligently delivered one copy of that no. to some subscriber, and am not able to ascertain to whom. If you have already recd. the Jany. no. you will oblige me by returning the one now sent, pr Mail. Respectfully Your obt. svt. RC ( DLC ). Postmarked at...
727To James Madison from James Maury, 21 May 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure to recieve your letters of the 28th September & of 24th March: this last reached me on the 19th April, but it some time before I could find out the clue for securing the delivery of the one you inclosed me. At length I was informed the brother of your Gardener was in the employ of the proprietor of Grange Estate, who turned out to be a brother or near relative of our...
728To James Madison from Samuel T. Anderson, 22 May 1823 (Madison Papers)
In laying my grievances before you as late chief magistrate of my Country, I do it very respectfully; and I do it in the hope that I shall at last, thro’ you, receive that Justice which I am sorry to say, has been too long with-held from me. In octr. 1814 when the command of Lake ontario was lost to the U.S, you determined to recover it. I was then serving as naval Storekeeper at Newyork and...
729To James Madison from Hubbard Taylor, 26 May 1823 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 25th. Ulto: came to hand yesterday, altho’ I had Known of two interfering claims I had not supposed, they had intended to set up any claim to either of the two tracts sold by you & Mrs. Willis; The elder Grant held by you I deem a sufficient guard angt. [ sic ] either of those interfering ones; however I will write immediately to Bell on the subject, to be made acquainted...
730To James Madison from William F. Gray, 28 May 1823 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 24th. duly recd. I thank you for your attention to my enquiry. By the mail that conveys this I send you the North American Review for April 1822. The No. for Octo. 1822 contains the Review of “Europe.” I have not a copy of it in store at present. I however send you, on loan , a Vol. from the Circulating Library, which contains that article, which you will please to return when...
731To James Madison from William H. Sumner, 5 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
In enclosing to you a printed letter to Mr Adams on the importance of the Militia, as a Civil, as well as a Military institution, you will permit me to express a hope that the Sentiments it contains will meet with your approbation. I have the honor to be, With the highest respect, Your most Obedt & hume St RC ( DLC ). In a clerk’s hand, signed by Sumner. William H. Sumner, An Inquiry into the...
732To James Madison from William Eustis, 6 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
Since the receipt of your letter you will perceive, by a copy which I took the liberty of enclosing to you, that my debut is made. That it would be assailed I was well satisfied long before it made its appearance. It was not to be expected that the wounded pigeons would not flutter. As it was not possible to consult my friends I was obliged to rely on my own judgement, and it is not without...
733To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
I communicated to you a former part of a correspondence between Judge Johnson of Charleston and myself, chiefly on the practice of caucusing opinions which is that of the supreme court of the US. but on some other matters also, particularly his history of parties. In a late letter he asks me to give him my idea of the precise principles & views of the Republicans in their oppositions to the...
734From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicated to you a former part of a correspondence between Judge Johnson of Charleston and my self, chiefly on the practice of caucusing opinions which is that of the supreme court of the US. but on some other matters also, particularly his history of parties. in a late letter he asks me to give him my idea of the precise principles & views of the Republicans in their oppositions to the...
735To James Madison from George Alexander Otis, 14 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Beyle, formerly private secretary of Napoleon, the writer of the work which I have the honor herewith to transmit you, has commissioned me to distribute a few copie⟨s⟩, at discretion, among the enlightened patrons of the Fine Arts in the U.S. I thus execute his wishes with the more alacrity as it affords me the occasion of renewing at the same time my offerings of respect to one of the...
736To James Madison from William Pannill and Others, 17 June 1823 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ From William Pannill and Others. Letter not found. 17 June 1823. Described as a one-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force ( DLC : series 7, box 2), inviting JM to their Fourth of July Independence Day celebration in Petersburg, Virginia.
737To James Madison from John Nicholas, 20 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
I observe your name, among many others, on the lists of seasons of Lightfoots Horses Hamilton & Jack Andrews, Kept by James Kinsolving Albemle. some years ago, for several Mares, & that by the leap at $10 each only. As I have discovered many errors in other similar cases, I do not believe you would be at the trouble & expence of sending valuable Mares so far & trusting to such slight chances...
738To James Madison from John Winn and Others, 24 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
As one of the distinguished patriots who aided in the establishment of American Independence, your fellow-Citizens of Albemarle who intend to celebrate its next Anniversary at Wm. D. Fitch’s in Milton, have requested the undersigned committee of arrangements, to invite your attendance. In doing so permit them to indulge the hope that no circumstance may render it inconvenient to you to afford...
739To James Madison from Robert Wright, 26 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
At the Request of Mr. Samuel T. Anderson who intermarried with my Daughter Caroline, I inclose his Letter to you relative to his Claim created under your Administration, to the just Settlement of which he seems to be estoped by an Entry , as by your especial Order. I have examined the Case and the Compensation allowed, and find that three perCent only is allowed to him for the same services...
740To James Madison from George Joy, 27 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 10th Novr. reached me only on the 17th Inst.—the anniversary of one of the battles of which I shipped you the picture with the Duplicate of the Book of which it announces the receipt. I had heard of the wreck of the Scipio long after it occurred; and, as there seemed a sort of fatality attending my efforts to place the Book in your possession, I had ordered a third...
741To James Madison from James Monroe, 28 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
I enclose you such documents mentiond in your memo: as are to be obtaind from the dept. of war. Those to be found, in the Natil. advocate, will be sent as soon as obtaind. There being no file of that paper, in that dept., they must be looked for elsewhere. I have allowed to Mr. Morris, the expence of his journey from Cadiz to Madrid six hundred dolrs., & a like sum to replace him there, &...
742To James Madison from Richard Rush, 28 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
Not for the value of the article, but as a little token of remembrance, I beg you will allow me to ask your acceptance of, (sent by the vessel in which this letter goes,) an English cheese. Joining my wife in kind compliments to Mrs Madison, I remain, dear sir, with unalterable attachment and respect your devoted friend and servant RC ( PHi ). Enclosed in James Maury to JM , 3 July 1823 . Here...
743To James Madison from Edgar Macon, 29 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have returned Chancellor Taylors Journal of the moot school, in which you will find the papers you put into my hands. Accepts [ sic ] my thanks for your letter of introduction to Governor Duval, and believe me Your affectionate nephew RC ( DLC ). For the journal, see Creed Taylor to JM , 21 Dec. 1822 , PJM-RS David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (3...
744To James Madison from James Maury, 3 July 1823 (Madison Papers)
On the 21st May I had the pleasure to inclose in my letter to you of that date one to your Gardener from his brother, ⅌ the Robert Fulton for Newyork. At the request of Mr Rush I now send you a Basket containing a cheese, which I have addressed to the care of my friends Robert Pollard & Son at Richmond ⅌ the Lucilla Capt Chandler for James river requesting them to recieve it & do the needful...
745To James Madison from John Brannan, 4 July 1823 (Madison Papers)
I herewith send you a copy of my late publication of the Official Letters of our Military & Naval Officers during the late war with Great Britain &c. in extra binding. The object of the compilation, you will perceive by the preface is, to hand down to posterity, the names and deeds of our gallant fellow citizens who so nobly sustained what is called our second war for independence. It embodies...
746To James Madison from Dodge & Oxnard, 5 July 1823 (Madison Papers)
We have the honor to transmit to you inclosed Invoice of the Cost & charges of Sundry articles which our Joshua Dodge has directed our procuring for you. You will observe they proceed ⅌ Brig Herschell Capt. Davis consigned to Mr. E. Copeland junr of Boston who will, on arrival, forward the Same to you. The amount we request you will remit to Said friend for our account. We trust the whole will...
747To James Madison from James P. Morris, 19 July 1823 (Madison Papers)
The respect in which I have been Educated, and which I entertain for yr. patriotism, & principles, induces me to take the liberty of troubling you with the enclos’d address; the sentiments of which, being of general application, will, so far as they may merit your approval, encourace [ sic ] me to beleive, that they would, (if generally adopted) be conducive to the improvemt. of the...
748To James Madison from Robert Briggs, 26 July 1823 (Madison Papers)
My pecuniary necessities compell me to ask the amount of your a/c. Professional engagments deny me the pleasure of calling personally upon you. I have therefore, prevailed with Mr Morton, to do me the favour to present this. I am Dear Sir with every sentiment of respectfull esteem Yours &c RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM , with his note: “pd. accordingly.”
749To James Madison from Charles Yancey, 4 August 1823 (Madison Papers)
I expect you have seen in print The unfortunate Difference between Messrs. Crawford Editor of the Va. Times & his foreman Ramsay. Having written to you in favor of Mr Crawford, I now feel bound to say to you, that every part of his statement Relative to the Contract is truth, & I believe the balance is. A burst of Indignation against Ramsay seems to prevail here. I cannot Recommend him to your...
750To James Madison from Joseph Ficklin, 9 August 1823 (Madison Papers)
A gentleman from this country by the name of Graves states that he had a Conversation with you on the subject of the Commonwealths Bank of this Country and that you approved of the measures we had taken to sustain our institutions of Learning and pronounced our cource wise and proper. This information Comes to us through a channell highly respectable and we frequently resort to you as high...