181931James Madison to James Monroe, 3 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. yours of the 31st. Ult. inclosing letters recommending Mr. Tracie, and hasten to correct an error you have fallen into which affects the University as well as yourself. It is on the tenth not the 15th. of July that the Visitors are to meet. I address this to N. York where you will probably have arrived. It gives us great pleasure to find that Mrs. Monroe encounters the...
181932James Madison to Richard Smith, 3 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
$950— Sixty days after date–I promise to pay to Richard Smith, Cashier, or order, Nine hundred & fifty Dollars for value received payable at the office of Discount & Deposit Washington— Ms (NN) .
181933James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 4 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your note of the 1st. inst. accompanied by the Bacon which is thought to be very good. I thank you for your obliging purpose in the event of a speedy Curtailment. It wd. be very convenient to me if this cd. be delayed till I cd. avail myself of some other resource than the Sale of my Tobo. Not anticipating such a measure of the Bank, I had allotted the surplus of that,...
181934James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 5 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 30th. Ult. and given attention to the passage relating to the Statement of Dr. Watkins. I feel certainly every proper motive to comply with your request, especially under the reserves you annex to it. But I happen not to have the means of doing so which you take for granted. After a lapse of more than 20 years, without intervening occasions, for recurring to the...
181935Thomas Bee to James Madison, 8 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
A late communication to the Richmond Enquirer, upon the subject of the plan of study laid down at the University of which you are now Rector, induces me to trouble you with a single question; the answer to which will not require many lines. It is this: Can an applicant of sufficient classical proficiency, be admitted to enter one or more of the scientific classes, without examination as to...
181936James Madison to Unknown, 8 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yrs. of May 27. Mr. B[ache] having informed me that he had as a critical [ ] [from] friendly motives taken up a draft of [ ] for [ ]. I remitted him [ ], with an intention, tho’ uninformed as I was of the origin of the debt & the particulars of the case, to re-imburse the remainder But on this point, I was to have my own time, which cd. not be objected to, the case involving no...
181937James Madison to John Payne Todd, 10 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
At the request of Mr. William Clarke, I put this into the hands of Mr. Lewis Shaston his brother in Law by whom it will be delived. Mr. S. will explain the object of his visit to Philadelphia, and be obliged to you to refer him to the proper person there to be engaged in the pursuit of it. I need not express our anxiety to see you, nor the affectionate feelings which you can not doubt. RC (NjP) .
181938James Madison to James Barbour, 11 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
It has been much the wish of Mrs. Madison & myself to give a call at Barboursville whilst you remain there: but find it will not be in our power. We trust it will be in yours, if not before, to make a stage & pass a day at least with Mrs. Barbour and your family, at Montpellier, on the way to the port of your departures; to whom with yourself, we offer our joint and best salutations. RC ( ViHi...
181939James Barbour to James Madison, 11 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
We feel much obliged to you and Mrs Madison for your kind invitation to call on you before our leaving the neighbourhood—We had intended to do so as a mark of our regard and to take an affectionate farewell But we regret the suggestion of your inability to see us at Barboursville—and still hope to do so—Our Children will be up by thursday [se ennights] when we shall be most happy to see you...
181940James Madison to James Monroe, 16 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have already apprised you of your mistake of the day for the meeting of the Visitors, which is the 10 th not the 15th. of July. I now wish you to know that we propose to pay a visit to Col: Lindsay, on our way, and on the following day, another. This will make it necessary to set out on Monday the 8th. You must not fail therefore to be here on the saturday or sunday preceding, and as much...