1731James Madison to David Meade Randolph, 18 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 10th. instant. As I could say nothing that would throw light on the merits of your claim and ought not to presume that a mere expression of my good will could influence the decision on it. I can perceive no ground on which I could properly take the step you suggest. I cannot but persuade myself that on a full consideration of the subject you will concur in the...
1732Daniel Brent to James Madison, 17 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
I had the Pleasure, yesterday, of receiving your letter of the 14th instant, and am honor’d by your Commands—Transcripts of the Reports of Mr. Jefferson, which you request, will be made from our Records, with the permission of Mr Clay, and sent to you with all convenient despatch. I soon discovered that it would be much easier to have this done, than to make a Research for the Printed Copies...
1733James Madison to Daniel Brent, 14 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
Whilst Mr. Jefferson was Secretary of State he made several Reports to Congress relating to our Commerce & navigation. In one of them, he was led to a comparison of the war & peace freights & ensurences, and to an estimate of the encouragement that could be afforded to our own navigation with reference to that comparison. I do not find among my preserved papers a Copy of that Document. If you...
1734James Madison to Henry Clay, 14 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 10th. inst. on the subject of Mr. Trist son in law to Mrs. Randolph, of whose qualifications for a Clerkship in the Department of State you wish me to judge. This young gentleman is I believe, regarded by all best acquainted with him, as possessing a fine understanding, as respectable for his scientific and literary accomplishments, as of strict honor &...
1735James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 13 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment recd. yours of the 10th. In my answer to the preceding one which I addressed to Warminster, I stated my reasons for deciding that if a publication of the letter on the Tariff power could be useful, it ought not to take place until the approaching close of the Presidential contest, should separate the two subjects in every mind, and procure for the former a more cool &...
1736James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 12 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. the inclosed letter, under cover of one from Mr. Clay to me. Be your decision on the subject of it what it may, it gives me pleasure that an option is afforded. It appears to be an expectation that in the event of your becoming a resident in Washington a removal of Mrs. Randolph thither would take place. But I know not that such a condition could be implied if her personal...
1737C. Schultz to James Madison, 11 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
Mr Schultz, presents his compliments to Mr Madison, late President of the Convention, and requests the favor of, transmitting Mr S. late communication, concerning the prosperity of Virginia, to some Printer: as it was intended for the Public good. With great respect and esteem your fellow citizen RC (DLC) . Docketed by JM.
1738Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 10 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
I am detained here as a witness in the suit of Mrs. Carter & Mr. Galt, but hope to be released by tomorrow. Shortly after I received your Letter of Sepr. 18, relative to the Tariff, I replied to you, and whilst I acknowledged the great satisfaction afforded by that letter, I begged your permission to send it to the press. Since the date of my reply, I have under proper precautions, shewn the...
1739Henry Clay to James Madison, 10 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
(Confidential) I have been informed, through a respected channel, with which I presume you are acquainted, that it would conduce greatly to the comfort of Mrs. Randolph, the daughter of Mr. Jefferson, if her son in law Mr. Trist was appointed to some Clerkship in one of the Departments here; and that, in that event, she would establish herself in this City. A vacancy having recently occurred...
1740William Beach Lawrence to James Madison, 10 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
As I am about to leave London, I have transferred to Mr. Barbour the funds of the University of Virginia, which were placed under my control on the departure of Mr Gallatin. I enclose a sketch of the account of the Messrs. Baring, from which the disbursements made under my direction will fully appear. I have the honor to be, with profound respect, Dear Sir, Your most obedient faithful Sert. W....
1741David Meade Randolph to James Madison, 10 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
A continued pressure of adversity will, I hope, excuse me for this appeal to your friendly consideration. I have been petitioning Congress the two last Sessions for a Pension; and altho hitherto unsuccessful, I shall repeat my claim, with some additional testimony in my behalf—among which, I am expecting something of importance from the venerable Fayette. My Affidavit states nearly three years...
1742Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 9 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
The Board, as you will perceive, adjourned on Saturday; and, at that time, I expected to have it in power to send you a copy of their proceedings, by the tuesday’s mail. This, however, other engagements rendered impossible. I was happy to hear from Colo Coles that you continued to improve, & trust that the heavenly weather we are now enjoying, will accelerate the return of your strength. In...
1743James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 5 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of Sepr. 27. The object of mine of Sepr. 18 was to suggest the topics & references which had occurred to me as supporting a constitutional doctrine in wch. we agreed, and in which I know you to feel a particular interest. If as you suppose a publication of the views taken in the letter, of the Tariff power in Congress, might have a useful tendency, the present can...
1744William R. Coupland to James Madison, 5 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
Doctor Robert H Rose the Uncle of my Daughter has presented to her a Piano which was left in Orange by him, when he removed to the West—We are at a loss to know where it is—whether at Montpelier or Mrs Nelly Willis’s—Excuse the liberty I take of requesting you to inform me by letter addressed to this place whether the Piano is now at Montpelier or not. I should not trouble you with this...
1745Board of Visitors, University of Virginia, 1 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
University of Virginia Wednesday, October 1st. 1828. Agreeably to the adjournment at the meeting in July last, four members of the Board of Visitors made their appearance—Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, William C. Rives, and J. H. Cocke—who were informed by a letter to the secretary from the Rector, that, owing to his very feeble state of body, he found himself unable to attend. In the...
1746James Madison to William Cabell Rives, 29 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have been duly favored with your very kind letter of the 23d. It was our intention to take Castle Hill again in our way to the University, for which the former experienced welcome was more than a sufficient inducement. But I am under the disagreeable necessity of saying that a late indisposition has left a prolonged feebleness in the state of my health, which will deprive me of the pleasure...
1747James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 29 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 24th. I hope your letter to Mr Monroe will have corrected his error as to the day for the meeting of the Visitors, in time for his attendance. I have heared nothing from him on the subject since his letter asking for information, my answer to which was I thought sufficiently guarded agst. misapprehension. I relied still more on the letter I presume you wrote to him,...
1748James Barbour to James Madison, 29 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
It was a subject of very sincere regret, both, with me and my family, that from untoward circumstances we were deprived of the happiness of tendering to you and Mrs Madison, an affectionate farewell on the distant Journey we were about commencing—It will give you pleasure I am sure to learn that our voyage across the Atlantic, was so favorable as to exceed any one of the 145 passages, which...
1749Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 27 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I shall see you so shortly that I would not now write, were it not for your express desire that I should do so. Your letter on the Tariff came to hand by the last mail, and has been read with the deepest interest. It is a paper < > so important, & so especially calculated to correct the unhappy state of the public mind to the South, that you must consent to its publication. I felt strongly...
1750James Madison to Ferdinand R. Hassler, 25 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. with two copies of your "Elements of Geometry" came to hand when a spell of sickness prevented me from making the proper acknowledgements. I now beg of you to accept them, particularly for the copy allotted to myself. That for the University has been duly forwarded and will there find a better capacity than I possess to do justice to the work. I can only repeat to you...
1751James Madison to C. Schultz, 25 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Augst. 9th. was not recd. nor indeed written till the Convention at Charlottesville had dissolved itself. Had it been otherwise, the topics you suggest wd. not have been viewed as within the task for which the members had met For myself, however worthy of attention, your suggestions may be, I have arrived at a period of life which makes it proper that I should leave them to...
1752James Madison to Charles Sigourney, 25 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. inst. followed with some interval, by the communications it referred to, found me under a bilious attack from which I am not yet sufficiently restored to health for more than a brief answer. I have not yet read the document in print, but am well prepared to say that I wish success to every <Institutionl> effort that may be judiciously planned for removing from our...
1753Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 24 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
A letter just received from Mr Monroe, betrays the erroneous impression that the first monday--whereas it is the first day--was appointed for the meeting of the Board; and, lest the other members should be labouring under the same mistake, I have lost no time in calling their attention to the subject. The students at the University have not yet reached one hundred. Dr P. evinces several...
1754James Madison to Richard Forrest, 23 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I recd. your favor of the 5th. when I was prevented from acknowledging it by a bilious attack which has left me but little fitted even yet for the use of the pen. The letter you enclosed from Mr. Rich holds out an interesting opportunity for valuable acquisitions to Learned Libraries. But I fear the scanty resources of our University will deprive it of a share in them Maryland it seems is more...
1755Arthur S. Brockenbrough to James Madison, 23 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
At the approaching meeting of the Visitors may I ask the favor of you & Mrs Madison to make my house your home. We have one comfortable lodging room and nothing will give Mrs Brockenbrough & myself more pleasure than to make you and Mrs Madison comfortable whilst you are here—If from indisposition or any other cause, we should be deprived of the pleasure of your company, be pleased to tender...
1756William Cabell Rives to James Madison, 23 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I had hoped to have had it in my power, before this time, to be at Montpelier; but having been deprived of that pleasure by a recent absence of four or five weeks from home, I trouble you with this communication only to say to you that we shall hope to have the pleasure of seeing you here, on your way to the university. If it should not consist with your arrangements to spend a day or two with...
1757James Madison to James Barbour, September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have long desired to obtain a simple seal engraved with the initials of my name, encircled by the motto veritas non verba magistri. The material prefered, is a stone of no very costly sort, and as the price of one in silver cannot be great, I should be glad of a duplicate in that metal. The size of the seal, I would wish to be rather small than large. Shd. you succeed in getting this little...
1758James Madison to James Barbour, 22 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I need not remind you of the vacancy produced in the professorship of Ancient Languages in the University of Virginia, nor remark on the importance of providing a Successor worthy of it. The anxiety of the Visitors on this subject led them to offer the Chair for the term of one year to M<r.> Gesner Harrison, a distinguished pupil of Mr. Long, who has accepted it with that limitation;...
1759James Madison to William Beach Lawrence, 22 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your favor of June 29th. inclosing the letter to Mr Key from Mr Ritchie. My letter of Aug 3d informed you that the vacant Chair of Nat Philos had just been provided for by the appt. of Doctr Patterson of the University of Pena. Being regarded as a highly accomplished Professor for that Branch of Science, and particularly recommended, by his being able to enter at once on his...
1760George Long to James Madison, 21 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I received yesterday from Mr Mc Lane your very kind and obliging letter. At the time of its date the board of Visitors had not met, but I have since heard that Mr Harrison is finally appointed to the Chair of Antient Languages. It may be a subject of ridicule, especially with some of your northern friends, to appoint to so important a place a Virginia youth, whose travels have not been...
1761James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 18 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your late letter reminds me of our Conversation on the constitutionality of the power in Congs. to impose a tariff for the encouragemt. of manufactures; and of my promise to sketch the grounds of the confident opinion I had expressed that it was among the powers vested in that Body. I had not forgotten my promise, & had even begun the task of fulfilling it; But frequent interruptions from...
1762William Buell Sprague to James Madison, 18 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
William Buell Sprague with his most respectful regards to the Honorable Mr Madison, begs that he will accept of his most cordial thanks for the repeated expression of kindness in giving him the information requested in his last letter. It gives him great pleasure to hear of Mr M’s general health, & he hopes that before this time he is quite restored from his late bilious attack. WBS takes the...
1763James Maury to James Madison, 16 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I am much obliged by your letters of the 5 April & 13 May, as I also am for your remarks on Tobacco, cotton & Manufactures. As to the first of these I cannot help thinking the time not distant when the Tobo planter will have to decide whether it will be better to grow it for a price inadequate almost to any remuneration or not at all. The Tariff seems to have been viewed on this side as...
1764Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 16 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
When I dispatched the packet containing the papers of Mr Tracie, last week, it was in such a hurry as not to allow me time to accompany it by a single line. Dr Patterson came up from Richmond on the monday previous to the opening of the session. Mr Tucker arrived on the same day, in the northern stage. In the sentiments expressed at the dinner to Dr P, you will have noticed what struck me as...
1765James Madison to John McLean, 10 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
J M. presents his respects to Mr. McClean, and commits to his care, as requested by Mr Tracie a letter containing papers wch. had been deposited by him, with the Board of Visitors of the Univy. of Va. Draft (DLC) . Subjoined to the draft of JM to M. L. Tracie, 10 Sept. 1828.
1766James Madison to William Buell Sprague, 10 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
About the time I recd. your letter of Aug. 18th. my health, generally good, was interrupted by a bilious attack, remains of which are still upon me. I offer this apology for the delay in attending to your request. I should have included in the list sent you an autograph of Mr. Henry; but could find one letter only from him, and that not admitting the separation of a single line to precede his...
1767James Madison to M. L. Tracie, 10 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
At the date of my last, I expected to comply in a few days with the request in yours of Aug. 7. Circumstances occurred which have delayed—thus long—my receiving the papers referred to. I lose no time in forwarding them, committing the Letter as you desired to the care of the post. M. Genl. With respect & good wishes Draft (DLC) . The draft of JM to John McLean, September 10, 1828, is subjoined.
1768James Madison to Walter Jones, 9 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the answer you have been so good as to prepare to the Bill in Chancy. which makes me a party. I know not that in a sound construction there is any part of the answer not reconciliable with the state of facts; but that you may the better judge, I take the liberty of submitting the following Statement; being conscious of the perfect fairness of my intentions throughout, and anxious...
1769Ferdinand R. Hassler to James Madison, 8 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
With the present I take the Liberty to present to You two Copies of my Elements of Geometry which I wrote during my short stay at Richmond since I had the pleasure to communicate to You my former work on astronomical subjects. I should be very happy to see my now several elementary works of Mathematic introduced in Virginia, they appear to be much approved generally, and particularly by the...
1770Charles Sigourney to James Madison, 8 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to transmit you herewith a copy of an able & interesting sermon, recently delivered in this City, by the Revd. Dr Wainwright of N. York, on the occasion of forming the "African Mission School Society," in this place. This will be accompanied by sundry printed documents, explaining the nature & object of the establishment proposed. I think you will be gratified in...
1771Richard Forrest to James Madison, 5 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter, came by this day’s Mail under cover to the Secretary of State, which I take pleasure in forwarding. The late fine rain, has greatly revived vegetation, and refreshed the air; but came too late to improve the Corn, and the crop of Tobo is so short, that it scarcely deserves notice. There will not be, in Maryland, more than 1/5 of the usual crop—almost a total failure of...
1772James Madison: Memorandum on the Cutts House, 01 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Mr. M. agreed to purchase the House & lotts of Mr. Cutts in the City of Washington under the following circumstances. A considerable sum had been left under the controul of Mr. Cutts subject to the call of Mr. M. which it was expected would be delayed for a very short time. Before the call was made Mr. Cutts yielding to sanguine calculations both as to profit and the prompt means of replacing...
1773James Madison to Ferdinand R. Hassler, 01 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, your letter of Aug. 31st with the 2 Copies of your "Elements of Analytic Trigonometry." For the one to be retained by myself, I tender my thanks: The other will be disposed of as you request. Not pretending to be a competent judge, of the merit of the work, I can only express the confidence in it, derived from the high estimation in which your Scientific character has been...
1774Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 1 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 18 Ult., reached me by the last mail. On the subject of the Tilghman white wheat, I deem it proper to write you by the return of the mail, in order that you may not be put to inconvenience on my account. Having an Agent in Baltimore for the sale of my crops below, I have thought it would be best to get him to send me a parcel of the Tilghman wheat. I presume it can be had in...
1775James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 30 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
I recd. some days ago a call from the B. U. S. at Richmond for payment on or before Octr. 12. of $1000. I had not looked for it, after your letter of in answer to mine of . I hope it does not shut the door agt. the indulgence as requested in the latter & favored in yours. Be so good as to let me hear from you on the subject as soon as may be convenient. The continuance of the drought has...
1776John Hartwell Cocke to James Madison, 23 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 12. inst. inclosing a Letter from Professor Lomax reached me by our last post. It is highly desirable to guard against the evils referred to in Mr. L’s communication, but I can see no reasonable hope of effecting anything at this advanced period of the vacation by attempting to communicate with our Colleagues. The dispersed state of our Members renders it impracticable to collect...
1777James Madison to Marquis de Lafayette, 21 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Borowski the Bearer, is very desirous of being presented to you, & has been recommended to me from a source, and in terms, that make it a pleasure to give him this introduction. His estimable qualities and interesting communications will, I doubt not, quickly satisfy you of his title to it Always & Affectionately Yours RC (Cornell University Library: Dean Collection of Lafayette); draft...
1778James Madison to John Brockenbrough, 20 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 15th. on the subject of "Le grand voyage" de Mons. "Dehon". The letter will be communicated to the Visitors of the University. But it being pretty certain that the resources of the Institution will not permit a purchase of Books, however worthy a place in its Library, beyond those of a cheaper sort, and more requisite for current use, the owner of the work...
1779Alexander Garrett to James Madison, 19 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
Annexed I send for your approval, my check upon the President & Directors of the Literary Fund, for Five thousand dollars; the last of the present years annuiety. This will be wanting very shortly, to meet the approaching quarter payments to the Professors. Very Respectfully RC (DLC) .
1780James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 18 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 7th. did not come to hand till yesterday. Docr. Harrison, as you may have heard, agreed, in an interview with Mr. Johnson, to accept the temporary appointment to the Chair of Ant: Languages, on the terms proposed to him, and a Commission has accordingly been sent to him. It may not be amiss, as you suggest, to sound Mr. Key, in the provisional attempts abroad to procure a...