182671Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 18 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
Some months ago, the Trustees of the [ ] University, established at Cincinnati, tendered me the Professorship of Anatomy & Physiology in their University, the Agent guaranteeing me the Sum of $2500 per annum for four months duty. The Proffer was advantageous but circumstances induced me to decline it. A short time thereafter, I was requested to accept a Chair in the Medical Jefferson College...
182672James Madison to James Robertson, Jr., 20 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 3d. instant postmarked the 5th. was not received till the day before yesterday the 18th. I know not that I can say anything on the Constitutional points stated, which has not been substantially said in publications into which I have been heretofore led. In general I adhere to the remark, that the proper way to understand our novel and complex system of Government is to avoid...
182673James Madison to Gulian C. Verplanck, 20 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your favour of the 2d. Ult. referring to a Copy of the proof Impression of the "American Landscape" forwarded on behalf of the artists & authors. Owing to successive casualties, the Copy of the publication did not come to hand till yesterday; which will apologise for the delay in returning the thanks which I now offer with my best wishes for the success of so laudable an...
182674Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 20 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
In my last letter to you it completely escaped me to mention to you, by request of Mr Davis, that, if I should leave the University at the termination, of this Session: and if he should be continued in his chair, he might be esteemed an applicant for the house I now occupy. He finds his present residence unfavorable for his abstract Studies, and considers mine would be preferable. Should I be...
182675James Madison to James Monroe, 21 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the . I considered the advertisement of your estate in Loudon as an omen that your friends in Virginia were to lose you. It is impossible to gainsay the motives to which you yielded in making N. Y. your residence, tho’ I fear that you will find its climate unsuited to your period of life and the State of your health. I just observe and with much pleasure, that the...
182676Robert M. Patterson to James Madison, 21 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have been put in nomination, by the unanimous voice of the Medical Faculty of the University of Maryland, for the Chair of Chemistry in the Baltimore School, lately rendered vacant by the death of Prof. DeButts; and I have felt that it will be my duty not to decline this situation, if elected by the Board of Trustees. The choice is to be made, on the first Monday in June. There will probably...
182677James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 22 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 18th. instant. Whatever be the regrets at the uncertainty of your continuance in our University, justice must be done to the considerations producing it, & to the manner of communicating them. For myself, and I doubt not for my fellow members of the Board, it cannot be necessary to express the high value we have placed on your services in the Institution,...
182678John H. Lee to James Madison, 23 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of January the 1st was not recd until the 15th of Feby, owing I presume to the extreme inclemency of the weather immediately after I had an interview with Mrs Bell & Mrs T. & proposed to deed them 200 acres of Land of a medium value, out of one of the Tracts, if they would withdraw their defence; This proposition only excited the anger of Mrs Tapscott, & after having recd more...
182679James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 25 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
I inclose an extract of a letter from Professor Dunglison communicating his purpose of leaving his Chair in the event of his being appointed to a vacant one at Baltimore; and I have recd. a like communication from Professor Patterson, which I understand from him he has made directly to you. These occurrences are very embarrassing; and in some respects the more so, as involving contingences,...
182680James Madison to Robert M. Patterson, 25 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday yours of the 21st. communicating your purpose of resigning your Chair in the University, in the event of your being appointed to a vacant one at Baltimore. I need not say how much I regret the danger of such a loss to the Institution, as it may possibly not be realised. I only add for the present a re-assurance of my great & cordial esteem. RC (NjGbS) ; FC (DLC) .
182681James Madison to George W. P. Custis, 29 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison has duly recd. the copy of "Pocahuntas" politely forwarded to him by Mr. Custis. The long discontinuance of his attention to that species of homage to the Muses is a reason the more with him for distrusting his judgment in any particular case. Relying on the [ ] success of the performance when actually produced on the Philada. Stage, as the surest test of its merit, he does not...
182682James Madison to James Maury, 29 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
The mail has just brought us information, in one instance under your own hand & name, that you have safely reached the land of your birth. I welcome you to it; and hope at an early day to welcome you at my own domicil, where I shall be able to express all the feelings awakened by your unexpected and gratifying visit. Meantime accept from Mrs. M. & myself all our best wishes. RC ( ViU ); draft...
182683Henry St. John Dixon to James Madison, 29 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
Looking over the Records of the Loyall Company I perceive that you are a member of the Compy as an original Grantee, as well as a transferee of other Shares and being as I suppose one of the oldest Stockholders beg leave to enquire if you were acquainted with a certain John Dixon one of the Grantees who resided in Williamsburg in the year 1770 to 76 who was associated with a person by the name...
182684James Madison to Alden Bradford, 2 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. Sir, 3. days ago your letter of the 9th. from New Bedford. The former one of which it reminds me was recd at the due time. Why it had so long escaped my attention, I can not readily say. That the omission of an answer was not intentional, I am very sure. The apology I have to offer for it, in addition to my very advanced age, is that your communication found me in a bad state of...
182685Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 2 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have, for some time, been intending to send you the enclosed; but, agreeably to my second nature—which has abundant opportunity to manifest itself—I have put off doing so, from day to day, and week to week. It is on a subject which early attracted your own attention, although you probably did not then foresee that it would ever be presented to the world in the naked-- purity , I think, in...
182686James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 5 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday your favour of the 2d. with its accompaniments. I thank you for the little treatise on mental* Physiology, which I reserve for perusal at the earliest leisure. From the reputed talents & tenets of the Author, something may be anticipated well written & out of the trodden circle. I thank you also for the rectified copy of "Distress for rent," and return the one formerly sent...
182687Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 6 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of 25th utl. covering an extract from Doctr. Dunglison’s letter to you of the 18th, & mentioning the receipt of a similar letter from Doctr. Patterson, came to hand a few days ago by the mail. I had just received similar letters from those gentlemen—from the former dated the 24th, & from the latter dated the 22d. These communications fill me with anxiety. I was quite unprepared for...
182688James Madison to Henry St. John Dixon, 7 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I received your letter of April 29th. It was my father whose name you observed among the Stockholders of the Loyall Company. Having myself paid no attention to the subject during his life, and taken no part in the business of the estate since his death, I know little of the concerns or partners of the company. I recollect that during my abode in Williamsburg between the years 1776 & 1779. a...
182689Edward McDermott Roe to James Madison, 7 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I hope the cause and subject of this letter may excuse my intrusion on your retirement. It is written in the hope that you will not consider the subject or the writer unworthy of your admonishment where you believe it to be proper—In the spring of Eighteen Hundred and twenty five by the Providence of God , I by a personal act won an unrestricted freedom from the Roman. Catholic. Church. That...
182690Charles Carter Lee to James Madison, 9 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have been so fortunate as to obtain, to day, some letters & papers sent by my father from the West Indies, many years ago. The trunk which contained them, & all the letters, were opened before they fell into my hands; & I took the liberty of reading that which I now forward, as it was enclosed to my brother, unsealed. I despair of ever being able to find the wine it alludes to; but I assure...
182691Benjamin Waterhouse to James Madison, 9 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
Considering you the head of the University in your State, I send for its Library a volume I have just published. But before you deposit it, I hope you will find time and inclination to examine this child of my old age, to see if it be fit to enter it. After long gestation it has been brought forth with pains and labour, which Junius says in his celebrated Letter to the King increases maternal...
182692James Madison to Charles Carter Lee, 17 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 9th. inclosing a long latent one from your father. My acquaintance with him commenced at a very early stage of our lives; and our friendly sympathies never lost their force; though deprived, for long periods, of the nourishing influence of personal intercourse, and exposed occasionally, to the disturbing tendency of a discordance in political opinions. I could...
182693Daniel Parker to James Madison, 17 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
Allow me to bring myself again to your kind recollection in the introduction of my friends Doctor Rd. Harlan and Mr. Wm Norris of Philadelphia—These gentlemen are traveling for amusement and in pursuit of interesting objects of natural science They are not willing to pass near you without making their personal respects to yourself and Mrs. Madison— I pray you to do me the honor of presenting...
182694James Robertson, Jr., to James Madison, 24 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have just received from Mr. Wm. Allen of Fredericksburg, the sum of one hundred and twenty Dollars, with a request that it may be deposited in this office to the credit of Edward Coles. At the request of the same gentleman I have now to inform you that I have done so. With much respect, I am, Sir, Your obedt. Serv. RC (DLC) .
182695Jared Sparks to James Madison, 24 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I am under many obligations to you for your full and satisfactory letter, respecting the part taken by Gouverneur Morris in the Convention. The information is valuable, & not to be obtained in any other Quarter. I should not trouble you at present, were it not for a hint contained in the postscript to your letter, respecting a pamphlet by Mr Morris on the threatened repeal of the law of...
182696James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your letter of the 9th. and with it the Vol. on the authorship of "Junius". Altho’ it found me but little at leisure & in crippled health, I felt too much respect for the writer, not to say curiosity for the subject also, not to give it an entire reading. Whether you have untied the knot at which so many ingenious hands have tugged in vain, I will not make myself a Judge. I...
182697James Madison to Robert M. Patterson, 1 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with great pleasure the information in your letter of the 11th that the University is not to lose your Co-operation in its fortunes; and that it more than retains the warm interest you have taken in them. Mrs. M. & myself feel all that is due to your & Mrs. P’s kind invitation to make a part of your family during the approaching Session of the Board of Visitors. But...
182698James Madison to Jared Sparks, 1 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the 24. Ult. and inclose the little pamphlet by Govr. Morris which it refers to. Unless it is to be printed entire in the Volumes you are preparing, I should wish to replace it in the Collection from which it is taken. Of other unofficial writings by him I have but the single recollection, that he was a writer for the Newspapers in 1780 (being then a member of...
182699James Madison to James K. Paulding, 6 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter answering yours of Apl. 6., in which I requested you to make an enquiry concerning a small pamphlet of Chs. Pinckney, printed at the close of the Fedl. Convention of 1787, it has occurred to me that the pamphlet might not have been put in circulation, but only presented to his friends &c. In that way I may have become possessed of the Copy to which I referred as in a damaged...
182700James Maury to James Madison, 7 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter of 29 April, which reached me at Newyork. This place is the residence of my only remaining sister, who is married to a Mr Herndon. I have been here a week; and, perhaps may remain a week or ten days longer; after which it is my intention to go on to my son’s near Charlottesville; but Montpellier being so much on the way, I must avail of your kind invitation as...