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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 142001 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 4 January 1832 | 1832-01-04 | Your favor of the 2d—postmarked 3d—was received this morning, after the departure of the mail. I... |
| 142002 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 9 June 1830 | 1830-06-09 | Your favor in answer to mine, has come safe to hand. Such is the character of the attention now... |
| 142003 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 5 January 1832 | 1832-01-05 | Your favor of the 2nd—was answered yesterday evening, & the answer went by this morning’s mail.... |
| 142004 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 16 September … | 1826-09-16 | Our friend Mr Terrell is now among us, on a farewell visit, preparatory to his removal to New... |
| 142005 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 10 June 1831 | 1831-06-10 | It has for some years, been a subject of regret with Mr Huygens to have passed near Montpellier... |
| 142006 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 30 July 1828 | 1828-07-30 | Your kind favor with the accompanying papers, from which I have made several interesting... |
| 142007 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 2 August 1828 | 1828-08-02 | The packet which goes by the same mail contains, I believe, all the papers you desired me to... |
| 142008 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 6 September 1830 | 1830-09-06 | Your packet has come safe to hand, & the enclosure for Mr Nicholls shall be delivered by me this... |
| 142009 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 17 April 1828 | 1828-04-17 | On going over to Edge-hill yesterday, I learned that the letter you wrote for a copy of, sometime... |
| 142010 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 25 January … | 1827-01-25 | This mail conveys to you two copies of the enactments, which have been delayed so long. You will... |
| 142011 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 17 September 1831 | 1831-09-17 | The enclosed is a communication to the Enquirer, not yet published , which I have got printed at... |
| 142012 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 12 September 1830 | 1830-09-12 | I wrote a line the day after the receipt of your letter, to inform you of its safe arrival. It... |
| 142013 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 30 May 1828 | 1828-05-30 | I should not have been so tardy in acknowledging your two favors of the 23 and 30th ulto, and... |
| 142014 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 9 October 1828 | 1828-10-09 | The Board, as you will perceive, adjourned on Saturday; and, at that time, I expected to have it... |
| 142015 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 23 June 1830 | 1830-06-23 | Procrastination has prevented my sooner writing on a subject which the deep interest I take in... |
| 142016 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 30 January … | 1828-01-30 | To my great mortification, I learn this evening that Mr Randolph left Edge-hill after dinner, for... |
| 142017 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 1 February … | 1827-02-01 | I have determined to send you also a No of the Westminster, containing another article on... |
| 142018 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 1 February … | 1828-02-01 | The servant overtook Mr R. So that you received your tardy letters yesterday evening. I now send... |
| 142019 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 8 January 1827 | 1827-01-08 | My indisposition was of short duration: Dr Dunglison’s prescription dispelling the fever & other... |
| 142020 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 3 April 1827 | 1827-04-03 | Intending to answer your favor of the 27th. by that mail, I went up on saturday afternoon, to the... |
| 142021 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 3 July 1832 | 1832-07-03 | It is more than four weeks since I received your last; and I then thought that but a day or two... |
| 142022 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Nicholas P. Trist’s Memorandum on the University of … | ≈1826-12-01 | One of the most prominent evils in the academic institutions of the U. S.—an evil which has... | |
| 142023 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 25 September 1834 | 1834-09-25 | Unless the day should be unfavorable, Mrs Trist & myself & children will set out to-morrow, to... |
| 142024 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 30 March 1828 | 1828-03-30 | I have to acknowledge your two favors of the 8th & 27th instant. The last came to hand yesterday... |
| 142025 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 6 August 1833 | 1833-08-06 | Towards the close of a thorough examination which I have made of Mr. Jefferson’s papers, and when... |
| 142026 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, [September … | ≈1827-09-01 | You will find in No. 3 (as marked by me) some new details respecting your early career, as well... |
| 142027 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 25 October 1828 | 1828-10-25 | I received, yesterday, a letter from Mr Clay, which I have answered by an acceptance of the... |
| 142028 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 18 May 1827 | 1827-05-18 | Mr Willard of Roxbury near Boston, who has come on to the University with the large clock of... |
| 142029 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 3 May 1833 | 1833-05-03 | I intended that you should first hear from myself , of the plunge I have taken; but this step has... |
| 142030 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 2 May 1831 | 1831-05-02 | I have, for some time, been intending to send you the enclosed; but, agreeably to my second... |
| 142031 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 13 December … | 1827-12-13 | In the expectation of finding there a letter from Mr Coolidge, I rode to the post-office... |
| 142032 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 19 November … | 1827-11-19 | Much occupation of one kind or another, together with the knowledge that all you desired was to... |
| 142033 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 11 January … | 1828-01-11 | My conscience has been reproaching me for some time past with my remissness towards you; and yet... |
| 142034 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 5 June 1829 | 1829-06-05 | I have just sent to the post-office, the copy of Mr Monroe’s paper, due to Genl. Breckenridge;... |
| 142035 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 6 February 1830 | 1830-02-06 | After the dose of Constitutional matter which you have had forced upon you of late, it is not... |
| 142036 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 12 February … | 1828-02-12 | Called to Charlottesville on business, I stop a moment, to send you an extract from a few lines... |
| 142037 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 2 July 1829 | 1829-07-02 | I have only time to ask the favor of you to send the enclosed to Mr Randolph by the first mail.... |
| 142038 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 8 May 1832 | 1832-05-08 | I have been intending to write ever since we had the pleasure—a most heartfelt one—of hearing of... |
| 142039 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 30 July 1827 | 1827-07-30 | My delay in writing has been greater than you probably expected when we parted or than I... |
| 142040 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | [Nicholas P. Trist] to James Madison, 7 February 1830 | 1830-02-07 | On the subject of all the conversations which it has been my good fortune to enjoy with you, I... |
| 142041 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 18 November … | 1826-11-18 | You should have heard from me some time since, but for the prospect held out by the arrival of... |
| 142042 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | [Nicholas P. Trist] to James Madison, 23 November 1832 | 1832-11-23 | Thinking on this subject last night in bed, it occurred to me that the most effectual way to keep... |
| 142043 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 7 July 1831 | 1831-07-07 | I am returning to the City from a trip to the Rip Raps (the most delightful spot, as to... |
| 142044 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 18 January … | 1828-01-18 | I am utterly ashamed of myself for having kept you waiting so long for letters which you have,... |
| 142045 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 24 September 1828 | 1828-09-24 | A letter just received from Mr Monroe, betrays the erroneous impression that the first... |
| 142046 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 26 April 1827 | 1827-04-26 | Calling by here in haste this morning, I am met by Mr Brockenbrough who calls me into his office,... |
| 142047 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 1 December 1832 | 1832-12-01 | The enclosed will give you a juster idea of the real state of things at the Head Quarters of... |
| 142048 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 1 September 1829 | 1829-09-01 | It is my intention some day or other to take up seriously the politics of this country. If a... |
| 142049 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 2 July 1833 | 1833-07-02 | You were right in supposing that my thoughts had been given to the subject of the void made in... |
| 142050 | Trist, Nicholas P. | Madison, James | Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 13 November 1828 | 1828-11-13 | You will be surprised at the place from which I date. I reached the Courthouse in good time to... |