1461James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 11 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 3d. was duly recd. and the Articles it refers to [du]ly delivered. My overseer says that he can not immediately follow up the waggoning his Tobo. & wishes the 2 Hhds. on hand to be sold without waiting for more, being apprehensive that the order in which the Tobo. was priced, may render delay unfavorable to the sale, by limiting it to the manufacturers. The Harvest is now over in...
1462Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 10 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
Report to the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, by the Chairman of the Faculty. [Reports, professors & students] In presenting to the Board of Visitors the reports of the relative attention, paid by the Students, and of the number of Lectures &c delivered by the Professors in their various departments, since he came into Office—the Chairman trusts that it will not be deemed a...
1463James Madison to the Visitors of the University of Virginia, 9 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
It is with much concern that I find myself agn. detained by the infirm State of my health from the duty of being in my place at a Meeting of the Visitors. I had not been without hopes, that the obstacle wd. have been removed, but the remains of a bilious indisposition, with the feebleness produced by it, do not permit my wishes on the occasion. I can only therefore assure my Collegues, that no...
1464William Cabell Rives to James Madison, 8 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
Since my arrival here, I have endeavoured to obtain all information respecting the character, designs & claims of Mr. Cooley, (whose letter & papers are herewith returned), that I thought likely to be interesting or useful to you. The impression here is very far from being favorable to him, in any of these regards. The Government is thoroughly possessed with the conviction that his claim is...
1465James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 4 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by yesterday’s mail yours of the 2d. with the communication for Mr. T. J. Randolph wch. will be forwarded by the earliest mail, viz on Monday. I do not find among my Pamphlets that of Docr. Cooper on Government. I am under the impression that it is still in the hands of Mr. Lomax. In that case he will readily let you have it. Should it have been returned, let me know, and I will look...
1466Leroy Anderson to James Madison, 4 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
By the kind manner in which Mr. Madison has announced his declining to subscribe to the Prospectus lately forwarded to him, he has evinced the truth of the remark that, "they who have nothing to give may often afford pleasure to others by imparting what they feel." As an apology for his late intrusion, the subscriber begs leave to say, that had the most distant thought of inconvenience to Mr...
1467George W. Spotswood to James Madison, 4 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
As I expect to leave this Institution in a few days, in pursuit of some place to support, and shelter my Family, And as I shall not return untill after the meeting of your honble. body; I avail myself of this opportunity of writing to you. The cause Gentlemen of my resigning my situation at this place, were I to enter into a full detail of the Insults, I have recd. during this session, and...
1468James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd yours of June 29[h]; and am much obligd by your considerate provision of quarters for me & Mrs. M. during the approaching Sessions of the Bd. of Visitors. Should my health suddenly improve so far as to enable me to attend, I shall avail myself of the arrangement you have made. But such is at present my feeble state, with some remains of indisposition, that I count on the...
1469James Madison to George W. Featherstonhaugh, 2 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I can not at so late a day acknowledge the receipt of your favor of Mar. 1. without feeling that I owe an explanation of the delay. The truth is that it was at first occasioned by the idea that I should soon be able to combine with my thanks for the agreeable little volume accompanying your letter, those due for the important one from your own pen, and this cause of the delay was followed by...
1470James Pleasants to James Madison, 2 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have been requested to bring to the view of the Rector & visitors of the University, the name of Hugh A. Garland as a proper person to fill the chair of the Ancient languages. Mr. Garland is a native of Nelson County & has been for some time past professor of the Greek language in the college of Hamden Sidney. I have been acquainted with him from his infancy & believe him to be a man of high...