1To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 29 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have delayed to answer your last obliging letter till I could inform you that the Cask of Port Wine was sent up to Mr. Stone. Owing to the severity of the Winter it did not get round from Alexandria, viâ Norfolk, to Richmond, till some time in March. After it’s arrival here it was proper to let it remain, for several weeks, in the Cellar, to settle, before I could venture to draw it off,...
2To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 24 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
On the 18th. of this month I intended to have set out on my journey to pay my respects to you and to Mrs. Madison at Montpelier. But Symptoms of the Gout, occasioned by being caught in a heavy rain, warned me, and still warn me not to venture at any distance from home. If these should wear off, and my Plantation matters, which are very backward, Tobacco especially, will permit me to leave them...
3To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 25 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
Ever since the receipt of your last very kind and flattering letter, I have been so much occupied by executorial and other business, which called me, unexpectedly, to the lower Country, that I have not been able to attend to any thing else, not even to my own health. This has been much impaired by an Influenza, from the pulmonary effects of which I have hardly yet recovered. Mrs. Corbin and my...
4To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 10 October 1819 (Madison Papers)
I had fixed on the 25th. of last month to do myself the pleasure of paying my respects to yourself and Mrs. Madison, hoping that my Son Robert would have returned by that time from his Tour thro’ upper and lower Canada. But a few days ago I received a letter from him, dated at Kingston, on his way from Quebec to York, to Niagara, and so on through Gennessee and by the great Canal to newyork....
5To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 2 December 1819 (Madison Papers)
It is impossible for Mrs. Corbin and myself to be sufficiently grateful to you and Mrs. Madison for your kind invitation. We are both anxious to accept it, and will do so, sooner or later, tho’ a letter received from our eldest Son, on the same day with your obliging one, renders it utterly impracticable till another year. After his fatiguing Tour thro’ Canada he rested in Philadelphia with...
6To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 18 January 1820 (Madison Papers)
I am under many obligations to you for your last obliging letter, and thank you, in a special manner, for the notice you were pleased to take of my Postscript. I am anxious that the Institution, which was established under your auspices, should become profitable to those concerned in it, useful to the Community and popular. All these purposes have been hitherto frustrated by the unfortunate...
7To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 13 November 1820 (Madison Papers)
In the early part of September I intended to have done myself the Honor and pleasure of paying my respects to you and to Mrs: Madison. But, just about that time, I heard that you had a great deal of company—Mrs. Mayo —Mrs. Scott & c.—and, therefore, fearing that my visit might be inconvenient, at that juncture, I postponed it. Since then Mrs. Corbin has added a 7th Son to my before numerous...
8To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 3 March 1821 (Madison Papers)
Gout in the Head and Stomach, occasioned more, I believe, by uneasiness than by abstinence, have been my almost constant companions ever since I had the pleasure to receive your last very obliging letter. These, together with a fear of intruding upon you, during the Session of Congress, when, I presume, your correspondents must be numerous, and the Subjects of your correspondence important,...
9To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 13 May 1821 (Madison Papers)
A few days ago I had the pleasure to meet with your Nephew Major Madison, of whom I made, as I always do, of ev’ry body who comes from your part of the Country, the most anxious Inquiries about your health and Mrs. Madison’s. He informed me that you were both well, but, to my great sorrow, confirmed some intelligence which my Relation Tayloe had given me, concerning your late loss of many...