130741To James Madison from Hazlewood Farish, 3 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
The box for Mr. Cutts has been delivered to me, & shall be immediately forwarded to Washington. I am very Respy Dear Sir Your mo: ob. St RC ( DLC ).
130742To James Madison from James Monroe, 3 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
Our troubles with Spain are not ended, nor is it possible to say when they will be. It was hoped and presumed that this minister would have been authorisd to settle every difficulty, but it appears that he came, simply, to ask explanations, and report those given to his government, to amuse, and procrastinate as his predecessor had done. He admits that he is personally satisfied, as to the...
130743To James Madison from Elkanah Watson, 3 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
Having terminated my Canal and agricultural Labours, I take the liberty to enclose for your acceptance a work just published comprising a historical view of these objects. I am with profound respect RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. Elkanah Watson, History of the Rise, Progress, and Existing Condition of the Western Canals in the State of New-York … Together with the Rise, Progress, and Existing...
130744To James Madison from Alexander Tunstall, 10 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
Alexander Tunstall will attend with pleasure to the directions of Mr. Madison respecting a package containing two Books, which was received yesterday, per the ship Comet from London, directed to the care of Charles K. Mallory Esqr. He has no knowledge of the Cost of the Books, & therefore is unable to ascertain the duty on them. RC ( DLC : Rives Collection, Madison Papers). Alexander Tunstall...
130745From James Madison to Elkanah Watson, 12 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir the little volume on Canals & Agricl Societies wch. you have been so obliging as to send me. The subjects of the publication, with the source from which it proceeds, sufficiently recommend it to the perusal which I shall take the first convenient leisure for giving it. In the mean time, I offer you my thanks with the renewed expression of my esteem & my friendly respects....
130746To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
As the measures which were adopted at the last meeting of our visitors were of a very leading character I have thought it proper to inform our absent colleagues of them; and have delayed the communication only until I could add what has been done under the resolutions of the board. As this latter information has not been received by you, I inclose you my letter to General Taylor for perusal...
130747To James Madison from John Rhea, 17 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
I did anxiously desire to have visited You as I passed through on my way home, and had anticipated the pleasure of seeing Mrs Madison and Yourself—but some business in Tennessee requires my attention as soon as possible. The late has been a long session of Congress, and there has been some troublesome business—inclosed is a copy of a speech and of a circular letter, which please to accept. In...
130748To James Madison from Mason Locke Weems, 18 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
I send by the stage a copy of what the Critics in these things call “A very interesting history of the Great French War” —in all its ramifications, I presume, of numbers, moods, Cases &c &c! This Copy belongs to your modest & worthy Son P. Todd Esqr who subscribd to me for it, last winter. I can’t conclude without adding my fond hopes that Doctr. Hunter has had the honor to amuse yourself &...
130749From James Madison to Benjamin Silliman, 26 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
I owe many apologies for not sooner recollecting that I was a subscriber for the first year of your Scientific Journal. I now inclose $5. which can not be more than I ought to pay for the numbers I have recd. of that valuable publication. Should it be less, be so good as to let me know. I sincerely wish you success in the prosecution of the work, and regret that the considerations which...
130750To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 2 June 1820 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ From Thomas Jefferson. Letter not found. 2 June 1820 . Enclosed in Dolley Madison to Lewis J. Cist, 4 July 1842 ( DLC : Dolley Madison Papers).
130751To James Madison from Benjamin Silliman, 9 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
I learned with some mortification that my printed circular relative to the Journal of Science had been forwarded to you—which was contrary to my intentions. I beg leave however to return my thanks for your very handsome treatment of the subject & to acknowledge the receipt of the 5$ enclosure. I hope you will not think me presuming if I take the liberty of forwarding the 1st. No of Vol 2...
130752To James Madison from Thomas Sumter Jr., 9 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
Having by chance obtained in this distant part of the World from the Artist who took it 20 years ago, a portrait of Mr. Jefferson which is said by conoisseurs to be admirable for its execution, and which I think is the best likeness I have ever seen of him; I am convinced, if neither they nor I are mistaken on these points, that there are many persons in the U. States who have higher claims to...
130753From James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 13 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have received and return my thanks for your polite favor accompanying the copy of the printed Journal of the Federal Convention transmitted in pursuance of a late Resolution of Congress. In turning over a few pages of the Journal, which is all I have done, a casual glance caught a passage which erroneously prefixed my name to the proposition made on the 7th. day of September for making a...
130754To James Madison from Levett Harris, 15 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
After having spent fourteen years of my life in the Service of my Country, and having had so distinguished a Share in the establishment of our Relations with the Emperor of Russia, I returned to the US under a full conviction of enjoying, as I felt I deserved, the countenance & Confidence of my Government at home, as I had done abroad. But I had not been long here, before I was apprized by Mr....
130755To James Madison from William Maury, 19 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
I received, & thank you for your very friendly letter to me at Charleston last year, which set my mind at ease, as you would accept no apology for a Merchants interference with Agriculture. This letter relates only to my proper department, it is to ask you to ship your Crop (which I am informed is now in Fredericksburg), on board the Arethusa, a remarkably fine coppered Ship, now loading at...
130756To James Madison from George Alexander Otis, 20 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
The translator of de Pradt’s Europe for 1819. hopes it may find acceptance as an apology for addressing So distinguished a fellow Citizen as the twice elected Chief Magistrate of the only free Nation. The writer also begs permission to offer the first Volume of his translation of Botta, which if it should be so fortunate as to meet the approbation and merit the high patronage of the late...
130757To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 21 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your Letter of the 13th. instt. The error in the printed Journal of the Convention, by which the motion on the 7th. of September for the establishment of a Council of State, is ascribed to you, is in the original list of yeas and nays, taken at the time by the Secretary, who probably in the hurry of writing made the mistake which you suggest of your name...
130758From James Madison to Levett Harris, 21 June 1820 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Levett Harris. Letter not found. 21 June 1820 . Offered for sale in John Heise Autographs, Catalogue A (1921), item 26. This letter was probably the one listed for sale in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 836 (2 Feb. 1900), item 4, as to an unidentified correspondent.
130759To James Madison from Frances Wright, 28 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
The Tragedy of Altorf, a copy of which I presume to request your acceptance, was favourably received, some time since, in the Theatres of New York and Philadelphia. The kindness which, as a young and unknown Author, I then experienced, has added sentiments of heartfelt gratitude and affection to that admiration which I had previously conceived for the people of America, from the consideration...
130760To James Madison from Levett Harris, 29 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
I return You my acknowledgments for Your very kind Reply of the 21st inst to the Letter I had the honor to address You on the 15th. I purpose leaving here in All next Week for Monticello, on a Visit to Mr Jefferson, whose Stay there, he writes me is limited to about two Weeks, and I shall thence Repair to pay my Respects at Montpellier. I beg You to Accept in Advance the Renewed Assurances of...
130761From James Madison to James Maury, [ca. July 1820] (Madison Papers)
I send you by the present Conveyance 8 Hhds of Tobo. as noted in the Margin. The greater part is I believe of prime quality notwithstanding the season which was remarkably unfavorable. The rest, tho’ inferior is better probably than the generality of the shipments this year. The whole is reported by the Inspectors, as put up in the best order & neatest manner. Out of the proceeds Be pleased to...
130762To James Madison from Joseph Wheaton, 1 July 1820 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed copy of a Statement (correctly made,) is some evidence of the truth of the memorial presented to the House of Representatives United States in N. York when you was a member of it, and which with your aid gave me the appointment of Sergeant at Arms to that Honorable Body, with that memorial and the enclosed Statement, and your personal knowledge of me for thirty years past, with...
130763From James Madison to George Alexander Otis, 3 July 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of June 20. & with it the translated Copies of Pradt’s Europe for 1819, and of the 1st. vol. of Botta’s History of our war of Independence. Be pleased to accept my thanks for both. The literary reputation of the latter Author, with the philosophic spirit & classic taste allowed abroad to this historical Work justly recommended the task in which you are engaged, of...
130764From James Madison to Joseph Wheaton, 6 July 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter of the 1st. instant. Your wish that your descendants shd. possess a just & favorable view of their ancestor is natural & commendable. There are others whose knowlege of your character & public services being more special may enable them to do more justice to your object than I can do. What I can say with truth & with pleasure is that in originally favoring your...
130765To James Madison from Peter Cardelli, 19 July 1820 (Madison Papers)
J’ai expedie deux bustes pour Votre Exellance au potomac crik dans le memme endrois que j’avais envoye; les Autres—Un c’est celui de Mr. Jefferson —et l’Autre de Mr. Clay ils ont une preparation que l’on peut toujour les laver. Je suis pret a partir bien tot; mon intention est de faire un grand tour jusque à la nouvelle Orleans et eax Quantoqui en debitent mes Ouvrajes; mes forses sont bien...
130766To James Madison from Lafayette, 22 July 1820 (Madison Papers)
I Have not Had for a Long time the pleasure to Hear from You, and Beg You not to Leave me in this painful privation of Your Correspondence. It Has been Lately my fate to be entangled in a Long, boisterous Session; where much has been Said in favour of liberty, but much Has been perpetrated against it. Yet upon the whole I do not know whether the talkers Have not Had the advantage of the doers....
130767From James Madison to Reynolds Chapman, 24 July 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 20th. I shall be content with whatever arrangements may be made with Ambrose Madison on the subject of Milly. Yrs Affe. Draft ( ViU : Special Collections). Reynolds Chapman (1778–1844) was clerk of the Hustings and Superior courts of Orange County, Virginia. He married JM’s niece, Rebecca Conway Madison, the daughter of William Madison and Frances Throckmorton...
130768To James Madison from George Watterston, 4 August 1820 (Madison Papers)
I beg you to accept the accompanying copy of a little work of mine, published a few winters ago. With most of the characters delineated in it, you are, I believe, well acquainted & will therefore be enabled to judge of the truth & correctness of the Sketches. I have it in contemplation to undertake a history of your administration, which I conceive to be the most interesting period, except the...
130769To James Madison from Andrew Ramsay, 5 August 1820 (Madison Papers)
Mr. John Graham arrived at my house on the 23d. ultimo from Rio de Janeiro, in extreme ill health, and is now greatly worse—indeed, becoming weaker and weaker every day. His liver is seriously affected, and with it, a severe bowel complaint, which has reduced him to a mere skeleton. We are under the most serious apprehensions as to the result, and unfortunately, his brother Mr. George Graham...
130770To James Madison from Jacob De La Motta, 7 August 1820 (Madison Papers)
The services of those who have acted well for their Country, can never be requited; and in a government like ours, the retirement of the first magistrate and relinquishment of his exalted station; does not lessen the respect that the people should, at all times entertain for him. Under this impression, and believing that you have ever been, and still continue to be, liberal in Your views of a...