130741List of Subscribers, Contributors, and Founders of the Central College, 1 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly for appropriating a part of the revenue of the literary fund to the endowment of an University and for the appointment of Commissioners to enquire & report to the legislature a proper site for the same, the said Commissioners are authorized “to receive any voluntary contributions whether conditional or absolute, whether in land, money, or other...
130742Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for the University of Virginia, [1–4 August] 1818 (Madison Papers)
The Commissioners for the “University of Virginia” having been required by law to meet at the tavern in Rockfish gap on the blue ridge, on this first day of August 1818, the following members attended (to wit) Creed Taylor, Peter Randolph, William Brockenbrough, Archibald Rutherford, Archibald Stuart, James Breckenridge Henry E. Watkins, James Madison, Armistead T. Mason, Hugh Holmes, Philip C...
130743Report of the Board of Commissioners for the University of Virginia to the Virginia General Assembly, [4 August] 1818 (Madison Papers)
The Commissioners for the University of Virginia having met, as by law required at the tavern in Rockfish gap on the blue ridge, on the 1st. day of August of this present year 1818, and having formed a board, proceeded on that day to the discharge of the duties assigned to them by the act of the legislature intituled an “act appropriating part of the revenue of the literary fund and for other...
130744From James Madison to James Monroe, [5 August] 1818 (Madison Papers)
On my arrival here last evening I learnt that you had reachd home the day before yesterday. I am sorry I could not have the pleasure of seeing you at Montpellier on your way, And the regret is increased by the circumstances which prevent me from making the detour necessary to call on you. I left my mother much indisposed, and my sister Rose who was on a visit to her critically ill; and having...
130745From James Madison to John Adams, 7 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
On my return two days ago from a Meeting appointed to report to the Legislature of the State a proper Scite for a University, I found your obliging favor of July 22. with its inclosed copies of Docr. Mayhews Sermon. I have read with pleasure this symbol of the political tone of thinking at the period of its original publication. The author felt the strength of his argument, and has given a...
130746From James Madison to Asher Robbins, 8 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of July the 17th. and thank you for your friendly Criticism on the passage in the address to the Agricultural Society of Albemarle relating to the Theory of Tull. Many Years had elapsed Since I read the Work of Tull, and I was of course guided by my recollection only aided by the references of others to it which had occasionally fallen in my way. I was very ready...
130747To James Madison from Horatio Gates Spafford, 9 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
In these woods, constantly occupied in my new business, that of Farming, & forming a new Settlement on an extensive tract of wild land, I hold little intercourse with the literary world & Know little of what is going on. As my attention is most sedulously directed to Agricultural & Rural Economies, I could not long be unapprized of the publication of some extracts from a late Address of thine...
130748From James Madison to William Plumer, 10 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 28 Ult: inclosing a Copy of your last Message to the Legislature. I can not doubt that the motives to which you have yielded, for discontinuing your public labors, are such as to justify your purpose; and I congratulate you on the improved & prosperous circumstances of the State, under which your retirement will take place. I must thank you at the same time...
130749From James Madison to Richard Peters, 15 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 30 ult: and trouble you with an acknowlegement of it, for the sake of thanking you, which I do very sincerely for the “Notices for a young farmer.” I do not know that there exists any where so many good lessons compressed into so small a space, and placed in so fair a light. I have read the little manual with profit, and with the gratification derived from its...
130750To James Madison from Jacob Gideon Jr., 15 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to present you herewith a copy of my Edition of the “Federalist,” the copy of which you were so kind as to furnish me. Permit me also to mention that this is the first work of merit published within the district of Columbia; and the very flattering manner with which it has been received by the public, in consequence of the revision of the numbers written by yourself (which you gave...
130751From James Madison to Isaac Winston, 18 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
I promised to let you know within this Month whether it wd. be convenient to hire your negroes now with me for the ensuing year. It was at one time my intention to retain the whole, But the conduct of Chs. & Spotswood has been such of late as to put them out of the question. If you are willing to separate them from the others, making the proper deduction for any loss that may happen from the...
130752From James Madison to Jacob Gideon Jr., 20 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 15th. inst. with the handsome copy of your edition of the “Federalist.” As this replaces the Copy sent you, there is the less occasion for a return of the latter. It may be proper perhaps to observe that it is not the o⟨nly⟩ one containing the names of the writers correctly prefixed to their respective papers. I had a considerable time ago, at the request...
130753To James Madison from Richard Peters, 24 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 15th. arrived in time to enable me to add a little Note to the Errata of our 4th. Vol: which I copy. ☞ “A highly respectable friend has been so good as to point out to me my careless Mode of expression in my ‘Notices to a young Farmer,’ page XXXVI. I mention Wheat being so injured by stagnant water, ‘as to become abortive; & produce only Cheat .[’] I should have said, and...
130754From James Madison to William S. Stone, 26 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
Capt. Walker with whom Eddins was in Treaty for my Wheat having signified yesterday his acceptance of the terms proposed to him, viz nine shillings per bushel delivered at his Mill, a concurrence in your memorandum for a bargain is of course precluded. Be so good as to procure or reserve for me about twenty five tons of best Plaster, which we shall soon be able to begin waggoning up. Friendly...
130755Account with Charles Taylor, [27 August] 1818 (Madison Papers)
Colo. James Madison To Charles Taylor Dr. 1817 July 25th & 26 To Viseting Med: &c for Paul 24/ £1.. 4.. 0 Augst. 4th A Viset Attendance &c Yr.Self 24/ 1.. 4.. 0 5th To Sundrys for Abraham the Gonorhas 48/ 2.. 8.. 0 Also Mercurial Course for Kitty and also Do. from 13th Feby. 1818 to June To 12 Visets Mercurial Course Dressings Med: &c for Do. inclusive $25 7.. 10.. 0
130756To James Madison from Mordecai M. Noah, 1 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
Mr Millar a very respectable publisher of American works in London has called upon me for the purpose of receiving a copy of the Address lately written by you on Agriculture with a view of publishing the same in a handsome edition in London. As he is somewhat delicate on this occasion he is desirous of obtaining your permission so to do. You will pardon the liberty I take in soliciting for him...
130757To James Madison from José Corrèa de Serra, 5 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have just read your adress to the agricultural society of Virginia and must congratulate your state not only for the consequences which are still in the womb of futurity, and are not always proportionate to the best wishes, but for the rare exemple given by two subsequent chiefs of the nation, of improving the first and noblest of arts, after having administered the government of a great...
130758To James Madison from William F. Gray, 7 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
At the request of Mr Todd I have procured the Analectic Magazine to sent [ sic ] on by Mail for you, and I herewith forward the No. for Sept. That for Aug. had been sent off by Water, before I gave the necessary directions to the publisher, and has not yet reached me. It shall be sent to you as soon as recd. I have made enquiry respecting Wilson’s Ornithology and Pinkerton’s Voyages & Travels....
130759To James Madison from Edgar Macon, 12 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter in which you have laid down a course of reading proper to be pursued by me, and for which I tender you my sincerest thanks. The time I devote to reading is during the vacation, & those hours in the session when the students are not confined. I am able to employ one third of the year in reading without encroaching on my college studies. I was gratified after reading...
130760From James Madison to José Corrèa de Serra, 13 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your favor of the 5th. inst. inclosing a copy of the observations & conjectures on the soil of Kentucky, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. I had a little Time before met with this paper, and read it with the pleasure & instruction promised by the name prefixed to it. As you have seen the observations addressed to the Agricul: Socy. of Albemar[l]e, the inclosed copy of...
130761To James Madison from Peter Minor, 15 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have recieved your letter of the 7th. Inst. with its enclosures, which shall be duly attended to. I comply with your request, by forwarding herewith half a dozen copies of the rules & regulations of Our Society, & the same number of copies of your Address. If a greater number of either would be acceptable, the stock on hand is sufficient to supply them. Of this you can inform me at the next...
130762To 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...
130763To James Madison from Peter Minor, 26 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
Four years ago I made a small essay in draining, after a manner different from any I had ever heard of or seen practised, the efficacy of which determined me to repeat the experiment this Spring upon a larger scale. I am so entirely satisfied with the success in both cases, that I am induced to communicate the mode to you for the information of our Society. It may be remarked, that Lands which...
130764To James Madison from James Monroe, 27 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed from Mr Rush, will give you a view of our present relations with England. Retain them till we meet, which I expect will be next week. The meeting of the visitors, is to be, I understand, then, in which, we shall expect to see you, if not we shall have the pleasure of se[e]ing you at your own house as we go to Washington, which we propose doing next week. We hope that you are all...
130765To James Madison from James Maury, 29 September 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of the 24th July, for which I thank you, as I also do for the pamphlet you have been so good as to send me. It is indeed highly gratifying to observe this laudable spirit diffusing itself under the auspices of the enlightened in so great a portion of the civilized world: I particularly notice what you suggest for preserving our red hills & a remedy of the...
130766From James Madison to James Monroe, 2 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the 27th. Ulto. I am very sorry that I shall not be able to have the pleasure of joining you at the Meeting of the Visitors. We must await therefore that of seeing you & Mrs. M. on your way to Washington; and hope you will set out in time to spare us some days. The communications from Mr. Rush are very interesting. G. B. seems so anxious to secure the general trade...
130767To James Madison from Joseph Hutton, 2 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
Confiding in your willingness to promote the diffusion of literary information through the Union, over whose interests you so long presided with honour to your self and benefit to your constituents, I respectfully solicit your name to the enclosed prospectus, together with any other, from the circle of your retirement, you may, without inconvenience, be enabled to obtain. Pardon, Sir, the...
130768From James Madison to Josiah Meigs, 3 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
I can not convey the inclosed without expressing for myself, the thanks due for your tabular view of the comparative temperatures of different parts of our Country. Experiment and comparison are the two eyes of Philosophy, and the use you are making of them, promises a more than curious light on some of the laws & phenomena, of our climate. If your correspondents could be relied on for...
130769To James Madison from Benjamin Fry, 4 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
Unwilling as I am to trespass on your retirement, I am nevertheless constrained to solicit your friendly advice, and to ask your recurrence to the facts of my claim for property captured by a Vessel of the French Government in the month of December 1800 (after the Signing of the Convention with France, which provided for restitution[)]. Anticipating your desire to withdraw wholly from the...
130770To James Madison from James Monroe, 5 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 2d. yesterday. We shall set out to morrow & be with you the day after. I am much pushd by many important concerns to get to Washington as soon as possible, but will certainly remain a day with you. Mr Crowninshield has resignd, & that dept., suffers, most essentially in some interesting circumstances. I have thoughts of offering it to Mr Snider...