1From James Madison to Archibald Stuart, 30 October 1787 (Madison Papers)
I have been this day favored with yours of the 21st. instant & beg you to accept my acknowledgments for it. I am truly sorry to find so many respectable names on your list of adversaries to the federal Constitution. The diversity of opinions on so interesting a subject, among men of equal integrity & discernment, is at once a melancholy proof of the fallibility of the human judgment, and of...
2From James Madison to Archibald Stuart, 25 November 1787 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 9th. instant and thank you for its Communications. I am sorry that I have none to make in return, no occurrences of moment having arrived since my last. The Pennsylvania Convention was to meet on Tuesday last, but I have heard nothing from that quarter. The election in Connecticut is over and the Returns it is said by those who the members & their characters,...
3From James Madison to Archibald Stuart, 14 December 1787 (Madison Papers)
I was yesterday favored with yours of the 2d. inst: and am particularly obliged by the accuracy and fulness of its communications. The mutability of the Legislature on great points has been too frequently exemplified within my own observation, for any fresh instance of it to produce much surprize. The only surprize I feel at the last Steps taken with regard to the New Constitution, is that it...
4From James Madison to Archibald Stuart, 1 September 1793 (Madison Papers)
Being well persuaded of your attachment to the public good, I make no apology for mentioning to you a few circumstances which I conceive to be deeply connected with it. It appears by accounts recd. by Col: Monroe & myself from Mr Jefferson, as well as by the face of the late Newspapers that a variance of a very serious nature has taken place between the federal Executive and Mr. Genet the...
5[From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 5 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 5 Dec. 1783 . Entry in SJL reads: “Arch. Stewart.—Convention—secretary to delegation—state of Congr.” Not found. See TJ to Madison, 7 May 1783 .]
6From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 25 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 17th. of October, which though you mention as the third you have written me, is the first which has come to hand. I sincerely thank you for the communications it contains. Nothing is so grateful to me at this distance as details both great and small of what is passing in my own country. Of the latter we receive little here, because they either escape my...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 23 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received duly your favor of Octob. 22. and should have answered it by the gentleman who delivered it, but that he left town before I knew of it. That it is really important to provide a constitution for our state cannot be doubted: as little can it be doubted that the ordinance called by that name has important defects. But before we attempt it, we should endeavor to be as certain as is...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 9 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a long letter from Philadelphia early in the summer , which would not now have been worth recurring to, but that I therein asked the favor of you to sound Mr. Henry on the subject you had written to me on, to wit, the amendment of our constitution, and to find whether he would not approve of the specific amendments therein mentioned, in which case the business would be easy. If you...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. John Nancarrow comes to Staunton on some view respecting a mine, in which line of business he has been brought up. He has been engaged in Philadelphia in that of making steel. He is a sensible, scientific and worthy man, and such as is rarely found in the walk of the arts, or even of the sciences. I take the liberty of recommending him to your notice and especially to...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written you a line this day by Mr. John Nancarrow to recommend him to you as a man of worth and science. What I say therein of him is religiously true, and I recommended him sincerely as a man I esteem. But lest you should be off your guard I mention in this, which goes by post, that I have understood his circumstances here to be bad, so that you must not be led into any money matters...