1201G. C____k to James Madison, 10 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
It may be singular and perhaps reprehensible, for a lad to obtrude himself upon the attention of a man, to whom he is connected, neither by the ties of personal friendship, nor the familiarity of acquaintance;— particularly, when the one is a boy sprung up in the recess of the country in perfect obscurity, while the other is advanced far before him– even to the van of our country’s glory....
1202Lafayette to James Madison, 10 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
This letter will be delivered by Mr Ruggi whom You Have known at Charlottesville in His Statuary profession. He called upon Mr Rives, Mr David and myself, Several Months ago, with a paper Signed by the professors of the University, engaging them, to the amount of $1000 towards the payment of a Statue of our illustrious friend Jefferson provided, on its Arrival at Charlottesville it Was...
1203Board of Visitors, University of Virginia, 10 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
At a meeting of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, at the University on Saturday the 10th. of July 1830: Present, the Rector, Mr. Monroe being prevented from attending by indisposition, and Genl. Breckenridge by the sickness of his Family. Ms (ViU) .
1204James Madison to John Jordan Crittenden, 8 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
Inclosed are eighty dollars in discharge of the debt stated in your letter of March 5th. The fraction over the precise sum may be passed to the discount on the notes of the State Bank; notes of the U.S. Bank not being at command. Mrs. Willis joins in the thanks offered for your attention to our interests and in regretting the delay in answering your letter. We had been desirous of finding a...
1205Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 8 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
In the scrawl I sent you just before my departure for Philadelphia, I adverted to another subject, on which I proposed to write soon. Circumstances have encouraged my procrastinating disposition, until it has brought me to the last moment. The subject in question is the creation of a Professorship for (for this is truly the only light in which the subject can be viewed by an impartial...
1206James Madison to Jonathan Elliot, 7 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of June 29. The two vols. it refers to preceded it some days. Being obliged at my age, to economise my intellectual employments of every sort; I have only been able to glance over the selections appended to the last vol: They appear to be of a class which must add to the value of a work such as that of which they make a part of the Notes of Judge Yates, however, just...
1207Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 7 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have been retarded in my return home by unexampled occupation & several bilious attacks. I have received at this place your favor of 31st. May, & read it with the highest gratification. I am on my way home with Mrs. Cabell, and shall scarcely get to Charlottesville till tuesday evening. I regret exceedingly the necessity of being absent. I enclose you confidentially Genl. Cocke’s letter of...
1208James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 5 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of June 9th. came duly to hand. On the subject of the discrepancy between the construction put by the message of the President on the Veto of 1817. and the intention of its author, the President will of course consult his own view of the case. For myself, I am aware that the document must speak for itself, and that that intention can not be substituted for the established rules of...
1209Robert M. Patterson to James Madison, 5 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
The two last Saturdays were fixed upon, by Mrs. Patterson and myself, to pay you a visit at Montpelier. We have to regret that we were deprived of this pleasure, on both occasions, by the excessive heat. As we cannot return from your house to the University before the third day, it is only by leaving here on Saturday that I can make this visit without interrupting my college duties. During the...
1210James Madison to Asher Robbins, 3 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. Robbins, returns his thanks for the speech of M. R. in the Senate of the U. S. on the 20th. of May. The Constitutional system of the U. S. being truly a Non-descript, can not be explained by the classifying & technical terms applied to other Governments; and the speech has judiciously adopted the mode of precise delineation of its features, according to the...
1211James Monroe to James Madison, 2 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
Being very anxious to join and proceed with you to the University, to perform our duties there, I have delayed answering your letter of May the 18th, in the hope that my health would be so far restored, as to enable me to do it. In this I have been disappointed. I am still too weak, to sustain such an exertion. I am, and have been free from fever, since my return from Richmond, and I take...
1212James Madison to James Monroe, 30 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have not heard a word from you or of you thro’ any Channel, since my letter of the . I augur favorably from this silence, as to your health, and hope to see you here by the 7 or 8th. of the approaching month. I am anxious for your attendance at the Meeting of the Visitors,(on the 10 th. of July), who will have sundry interesting matters before them, particularly the appointment of a...
1213Jonathan Elliot to James Madison, 29 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have just completed a compilation of the State Conventions, (as far as I could procure them) on adopting the Constitution as submitted in 1787. in 3 vols. and have added in a 4th vol. besides the journal and debates as disclosed by Yates) illustrations of the Constitution from the recorded opinions of twenty successive Congresses; and much other matter, I hope, of an useful and interesting...
1214James Madison to Ferdinand R. Hassler, 24 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with yr. letter of the 14. 2 Copies of yr. Logarithmic & Trigonometric Tables, and have forwarded to the University the one presented to its Library. For the other I return my personal thanks with an offer of my best wishes that yr. labours in the cause of Science may be duly rewarded With cordl. salutations RC (NN) ; FC (DLC) .
1215James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 23 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a copy of a late publication of Mr. Hassler, presented by him as you will observe to the Library of the University. He indulges a hope, that it may be found worthy of adoption into the use of the Institution. Draft (DLC) .
1216Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 23 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Procrastination has prevented my sooner writing on a subject which the deep interest I take in the University has long determined me to venture to broach to you. I have very little time for the purpose now, and moreover, my head swims like a top in consequence of my rest having been disturbed last night by my little girl; but, from the near approach of the meeting of the visitors, there is not...
1217Vice Consul Hersant to James Madison, 22 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
My most excellent friend and patron, the Baron Hyde de Neuville, has transmitted to me two pamphlets which he begs you to accept, and which, I hasten to forward to you, here inclosed. Also, you will find within this letter a communication from Madame de Neuville to Mrs. Maddison to whom I beg you to hand it, and to present my most respectful compliments. I seize with pleasure this opportunity...
1218George Joy to James Madison, 22 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
It is long since I had the pleasure of addressing you, and still longer since I had that of hearing from you. The Time was when I should have troubled you with a long narrative of my political movements; but I have great repugnance to invading your repose:— otherwise I could have sent you half a Dozen folio Sheets of Correspondence with the Powers that be; in which you would recognize...
1219James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 16 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I return with thanks the papers in manuscript, and the printed ones also, wch. belong to your files. My health has been a good deal interrupted for some days, and makes me the more readily avail myself of your kind dispensation from the use of the pen. With Cordial salutations Have you ever met with the "Address of the H. of Delates" which passed the Resolutions of -98– explaining the occasion...
1220Martin L. Hurlbut to James Madison, 15 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Unusual occupation together with a slight indisposition, has prevented my acknowledging the receipt of the communicature, with which you had the goodness to favour me, & for which I beg you to accept my sincere thanks. I have availed myself of your permission– which I understood to be implied in the fact of your replying to my former letter– to insert an extract from it in the ’Charleston...
1221Ferdinand R. Hassler to James Madison, 14 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Permit me with the present to present to You a Copy of my logarithmic and trigonometric Tables, which just now appear in the public, to which I made the Introduction in, 5 languages, as the intermediate titles shew, that they may acquire more general course; the numbers being the same for all, this extension appeared to me proper, so that each of the 4 living languages might have the book in...
1222James Madison to George Tucker, 12 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
This will introduce Mr. Laurence late Charge d’Affaires at London, & Mr. Kemble also of N. York. They intend to halt at the University, in a tour they are making thro’ the Virga. and I ask for them the favor of yr. civilities, well assured of that they will be well bestowed With cordial salutations FC (DLC) .
1223James Madison to Howard Malcom, 18 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
The 2 Copies of the "Reports on Prison discipline" referred to in your letter of the 3d. inst: were recd. some days ago. The letter itself was brought by the last mail with the post mark of Charleston S.C. to which it had been missent. The duplicate for a friend I have sent to Mr. Howard as one to both of us. I have not yet been able to give an entire reading to the little volume, but have...
1224Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 9 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favor in answer to mine, has come safe to hand. Such is the character of the attention now given to public affairs, that I think it quite doubtful whether the absurdity in question—glaring as it is—will not escape notice. It is not in the exact line of Scent of either or any of the packs. A production which, to a mind at all familiar with your and Mr Jefferson’s principles, could not be...
1225Martin Van Buren to James Madison, 9 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have shown your note of the 3[d] Instant to the President, who requests me to express his regret that he has misconceived your intentions in regard to your veto on the Bill for Internal Improvements in 1817. So far as opportunities place it in his power to correct the error in informal conversations, he will not fail to do so; and should an occasion occur in which a more formal correction...
1226Bernard Peyton to James Madison, 8 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
By your own Waggon you will receive six sacks salt one bundle Domesticks and two Barrels Whiskey delivered in good order yours Respectfully 6 Sacks Salt 2 Bbls Whiskey 1 bundle Domesticks RC ( PPPrHi ).
1227James Madison to William Henry Harrison, 5 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time the copy of your "Remarks on Charges made agst. you during your Diplomatic residence in Columbia"; but have been prevented by ill health and other causes, from an earlier acknowledgment of your politeness. I now tender you my thanks for the communication. The Remarks are not only acceptable to your friends as they relate to yourself, but valuable in illustrating the State...
1228James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 5 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
With this will be delivered four Hhds of Tobo. No. 13. equal to the best. 14. short pyebald. 15. & 16. good lugs. There will be at least 12 Hhds. to follow six of them equal to the best, the remaining six inferior. It is not improbable that the quantity yet in bulk will yield several addl. Hhds. The crop wd. have been a fine as well as large one if justice had been done it. I fear it will be...
1229Allan Pollock Jr. to James Madison, 4 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I sent you immediately after the rising of the Virginia Convention– a copy Life of Arthur Lee– and did not know untill yesterday that it had never been delivered to Mr. Gray by the person who I sent it by from Richd. Accordingly I send you another copy– you can settle with Mr. Gray (the Post-Master) for the same at $4– I have not a copy like the first sent you, (in Russia) or I would send it...
1230James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 3 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of May 24. was duly recd. & the one inclosed in it conveyed to Mrs. Willis, as you desired, I have not seen her since. I understand her son has been some days at home; with what promises or prospects, of alleviating the misery he has inflicted on her, I know not. Your letter gave us the first knowledge of the alarming attack on Mrs. Dunglison’s health. We rejoice that it is so...