183101William Wirt to James Madison, 11 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
Judge Glenn of this place, being about to pass through Orange, and having always been one of your political and personal friends, thinks it probable he may have it in his power to call & pay his respects to you, in passing; & lest you may possibly have forgotten his person, has requested a line of introduction from me, which I give him with great pleasure, from a long acquaintance with him &...
183102James Madison to Thompson & Homans, 14 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
J Madison presents his respects to Messrs. Thompson & Homanes, & incloses 5$ instead of 2 1/2 charged in the Acct. sent with the 10 Vol. of the Encyclopedia Americana on the supposition that the preceding Vol might not have been pd. for, no acct. having been recd. with it. Should paymt have been recd. half the sum now remitted may be credited, & applied to the 11<th>. Vol— FC (DLC) ; partial...
183103James Herring to James Madison, 14 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your notice the Plan of a work, the design of which is to honour those eminent men of our own country who deserve it, to add somewhat to the literature and fine arts productions, and by opening a field for imitation endeavour to bring them up to an equality at least with such as take the highest rank abroad—The Prospectus is however, sufficiently full on that head—The...
183104John Daingerfield to James Madison, 16 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
I am sorry to trouble you again on a subject in which you are not interested or concerned—but altho: my mother’s Interest has been regularly represented at all the meetings of the Loyal Company, it is now made incumbent on us to shew that she is entitled by being the heir of Henry Willis her uncle. In your certificate & forwarded to Mr Taliaferro you say she was the daughter of Henry Willis,...
183105Frederic De Peyster, Jr. to James Madison, 19 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor herewith to transmit the published Collections of the "NewYork Historical Society," which they have desired me to present to you as one of their Associates. In begging your acceptance of this testimonial of their sense of the eminent worth, distinguished abilities and public services, which have identified your name with the history of the times; I avail myself of the occasion...
183106James Maury to James Madison, 19 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
Altho I know the news papers I now send must have lost much of what might have been more interesting previous to the reform bill being known to have become law, yet I thought I might as well send them for the chance of their being amusing. Our friend Doctor Dunglison has told me that now and then, you used to send him the papers received from me: and if, after perusal, there be no other friend...
183107Elias Glenn to James Madison, 20 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
I regret that indisposition prevents me from delivering this letter in person, and more particularly on Mrs. Glenn’s acct—who claims an old acquaintance with Mrs. Madison. She is the niece of Mrs. Bartram of Philada.—and the cousin of the Miss Carsons, who were all well acquainted with your good Wife; You will remember that whilst President you gave me the place of Distr Atty of Maryland— If...
183108James Madison to James Herring, 20 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 14th. If I could under other circumstances venture on the important and delicate task you request of me, my present condition would not permit it. I have been confined to my house for a year by a tedious chronic indisposition, and, latterly, to my bed, by the effects of an acute fever. When I add that my age is now advanced into its 82d. year you will be...
183109William Allen to James Madison, 21 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
The mails of yesterday brought me yours of the 19th. and a letter from Colo. Peyton enclosing a check for One hundred & twenty two dollars & three cents, which sum is at your credit, & will leave a balance in your favour on my books of $129 6/100 when your draft in favour of Mr Ballard has been paid. I am Very respectfy RC (PPPrHi) .
183110Edward Livingston to James Madison, 23 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
(Private) Your letter of yesterday has given me some hints of which I shall immediately avail myself in instructions to Mr. Van Ness. If the government of Spain were actuated by the principles that guide other powers the circumstances in which we stand with respect to her might be turned to a favorable account, and perhaps in spite of her prejudices and procrastinating Spirit something may yet...
183111James Madison to Charles James Faulkner, 26 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter communicating the Resolutions in which "the National Republican Convention of Virginia at Staunton" has been pleased to express its approbation of my public services, and its kind wishes for my personal welfare. I cannot be insensible to the value I ought to place on opinions so favorable and sentiments so friendly coming from a body rendered so respectable by the...
183112James Madison to William Allen, 28 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
The waggon will take you a load of flour this evening which please sell & inform me of the amount of its proceeds. A return load of plaister may be sent up with the articles mentioned in the memorandum annexed. ½ bushel Cranberries 1 bunch best quills 2 lbs black teas 2 lbs green } 5# Canister best green do. 1 Keg Lisbon Wine. Draft (DLC) .
183113James Madison to John Daingerfield, 28 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the request in your letter of the 16th. I enclose a certificate in the best form I could give it. If not led into the error that Mrs. Daingerfield was the daughter of Henry Willis I was confirmed in it by the letter of Mr. Taliaferro which named and underscored Henry as her father . Having communicated the request in your letter a few days ago to Mr. Byrd Willis, who...
183114James Madison to Frederic De Peyster, Jr., 31 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
I recd by the last mail your letter of the 19th instant. It was preceded some Days by the volumes containing: "The Published Collections of the N. Y. Historical Society to which it refers. Be so obliging Sir as to tender to the Society my grateful acknowledgements for so valuable a testimony of its regard. I sincerely wish the Society every success in its laudable undertaking and that its...
183115James Madison to James Maury, 31 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 19th. You could not probably have chosen a spot more favorable to a continuance of your vigorous health, on which I congratulate you, than Schooleys mountain; nor one better guarded against the formidable Cholera which it is said has never visited insulated and elevated situations. My own health has much declined since you left us. My rheumatic inmate had been...
183116Israel Keech Tefft to James Madison, 31 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your kindness on a former occasion, emboldens me again to intrude upon your valuable time. I have in my collection of Autographs but one letter of the revered Washington; which I take the liberty herewith to enclose, and to beg you will do me the favour to look at it, and inform me, if it be genuine. I know the signature to be his, but I have some doubts as to the body of the letter, though...
183117John H. B. Latrobe to Charles Carroll Harper, 4 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
Here I am continuing my helter skelter letter. Mr. Madison resides about five miles from the Court House, among the Southwest mountains, and upon the slope of one of them. You leave the piedmont road about a mile from Montpelier and, turning to the left, pass through a dense forest for a considerable distance and until you descry at the end of a straight alley in the wood a high red gate, hung...
183118Charles Eaton Haynes to James Madison, 12 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
Such various interpretations have been given to the Constitutional doctrines avowed in your Report to the General Assembly of Virginia, & believing a proper understanding of those doctrines to be of vital importance in the present alarming agitations of a neighboring State, agitations which, I fear, may soon exist as generally in this, will, I hope, justify the trouble my enquiries may give...
183119James Madison to Israel Keech Tefft, 17 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of July 31. enclosing a letter from Genl. Washington to Genl. McIntosh came duly to hand. The signature is certainly by Genl. Washington himself, and it is equally certain I think that the body of the letter is in the hand of another. The original draft has very probably been retained & a copy of it sent as must have been frequently the case with him. In writing his name he did not...
183120Thomas S. Hinde to James Madison, 20 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
While engaged in the bustle of life, occasionally, a serious thought would pass my mind, respecting the fathers of our Country. Mr Adams Mr Jefferson and Mr Monroe having taken their departure from the present State of being on the fourth of July; I queried in my own mind, whether we should not hear of your departure on the same day: but the 4th of July is past & I trust that you are yet alive...
183121James Madison to Isaac Hite, 24 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 14th. I doubt not that Mr Randolph would be a faithful & capible Officer, in the place he seeks, but I have been oblidged by the numerious applications to me & the delicacy of discriminations to decline interposing in the case of candatates for office. I am glad to find that your constitution still resists your old complaint, & with an abatement of its...
183122James Madison to Charles Eaton Hayne, 27 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 12th. In the very crippled & feeble state of my health I cannot undertake an extended answer to your enquiries, nor should I suppose it necessary if you have seen my letter to Mr. Everett in August 1830, in which the proceedings of Virginia in 98-99 were explained, and the novel doctrine of nullification adverted to. The distinction is obvious between 1st. such...
183123James Madison to Charles J. Ingersoll, 30 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Mr Ingersoll with many thanks for the Copy of his Address on the 4th of July. It is a proof that fertility of genius can create an interest in a case which in other hands would be barren from apparent exhaustion. J. M. is sensible of the delay in making the proper return to Mr I for his favor. He has an apology which he is sure will be kindly accepted in his...
183124Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 30 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
Will you do me the favor to accept of the inclosed selfpointing pencil, the lead of which you will find in a small compartment at the end—and to believe me, dear Sir, With the greatest respect & esteem, Faithfully yours, RC (DLC) .
183125Thomas H. Ellis to James Madison, 16 September 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have been induced to believe by one of the members of the Faculty, that I might probably be relieved from one of their decisions, by an appeal to the Executive Committee of the Visitors, of which you are a member. The circumstances are these: My father, Charles Ellis, of Richmond, was not entirely satisfied with my progress in my studies during the last Session of the Uny. of Va; and knowing...
183126George Tucker to James Madison, 17 September 1832 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter to the Executive committee upon a small but most desirable change in the lecture hours, has been signed, as you will perceive, by all the Professors, except Dr. Blaettermann, & has already been approved by Mr. Randolph. Dr. B. is unwilling to give up any part of the 2 hours, but as he has only 7 students out of about 105, (the present number of matriculates) & 6 of these...
183127James Madison to [Thomas H. Ellis], 20 September 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 16th. As you have made the same commnication to the other members of the Ex-Committee who will be able to appreciate all the circumstances of the case stated in it, better than I can be, I must refer you to their decision on it, which I doubt not will be a just and proper one. With friendly respects RC (InU : Lilly Collection); draft (DLC) .
183128Joel R. Poinsett to James Madison, 24 September 1832 (Madison Papers)
As you expressed an interest in our proceedings here, I send you herewith some papers relating to our controversy—You will have seen, that our Convention at Columbia recommended a convention of the Southern States—an informal meeting, not such a convention as is contemplated and prohibited by the constitution—I went to that meeting with the sentiments I expressed to you at your house and I...
183129Luther H. Read to James Madison, 4 October 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. a Communication from the Heirs of Lewis Perrault , residing in Canada informing me as his Agent that in the year 1783, the claim of Lewis Perrault for advances of provisions, clothing &c made by him to the Illinois Regiment while in the West in the Revolutionary War, with the accompanying proofs & vouchers &c. was entrusted to your care for prosecution before the Legislature...
183130Francis Page to James Madison, 8 October 1832 (Madison Papers)
Permit me as the son of your old friend Governor Page, and son-in-law of Gen. Nelson to ask you to be so very obliging as to recommend my son Francis Mann Page to President Jackson that he may obtain a—Midshipman’s Warrant as he is very ardent to engage in The Naval Service of The United States, your friendly aid in conjunction with letters which my son has sent on to the President from...
183131James Madison to Francis Page, 8 October 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 8th. requesting a recommendation to the President of the U. S. of your son F. M. Page, and Grand Son of the late Govr. Page & Genl. Nelson for a Midshipman’s Warrant. Knowing as I do the personal & political merits belonging to their distinguished names, & the particular sacrifices made by their devotion to the cause of their Country at the expence of their...
183132James Madison to David Weaver, 14 October 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have re’d yours of the 11th. offering me a supply of Pork at the market price. If your hogs be fatted on Indian Corn, and the pork be in all respects as good as that purchased last year, I shall be willing to take about ten thousand pounds; the Market price is understood to be that of this neighbourhood for hogs driven from the West. I shall be glad of notice by a line from you of the...
183133James Madison to Luther H. Read, 15 October 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have just rcd. your letter of the 4th relating to a claim from the heirs of Lewis Perrault, for supplies &c furnished by him in the Revolutionary War, for the Illinois Regiment, the papers & vouchers of the claim, having been, as is sd. put into my hands in the year 1783, to be prosecuted before the Legislature of Virginia. I wd. gladly comply with the requests of information on the subject,...
183134James Madison to Joel R. Poinsett, 16 October 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favour of the 24th. ultimo—and thank you for the pamphlets accompanying it, which are from very able pens; and I have just had an opportunity of reading your speech on the 5th. inst. It is a powerful appeal to considerations, which can not fail to sink deep into every mind not shut against reflection by the violence of party feelings. I wish for so opportune an appeal all...
183135Francis Preston Blair to James Madison, 25 October 1832 (Madison Papers)
I enclose you a paper containing a letter ascribed to you. I beg the favor of you to inform me by a single line, whether it was written by you, or not. I am Sir with the greatest respect Yo. mo. ob. sv. RC (DLC) .
183136James Madison to Francis Preston Blair, 28 October 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr Blair, informs him in answer to his letter of the 25, that the letter with the name of James Madison to it, published in the Newspaper referred to, was written by him; but without marking for Italics, the words & lines which appear in that character. RC (NjP) ; draft (DLC) .
183137James Madison to David Weaver, 2 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
In my late letter on the subject of the pork I intended, but omitted to ask the favor of you to let me know whether good clover seed could be had in your quarter and at what price. Be so good as to make the enquiry & to give me the information as soon as convenient. I may have occasion for a supply of from 4 to 8 bushels according to circumstances. With friendly respects FC (DLC) .
183138David Malin and Charles B. Sedgwick to James Madison, 5 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
We are authorized to inform you that you are elected an honorary member of the Phi Gamma Alpha Society of Hamilton College. This society was organized soon after the establishment of the college & has had for its uniform object the promotion of literature friendship & morality: Its library now consists of about fifteen hundred volumes & is receiving constant accession Desirous of obtaining the...
183139James Madison to Benjamin Romaine, 8 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the 2 copies of your Pamphlet on State Sovereignity &c. The enfeebled state to which I am reduced by a tedious illness, has abridged my reading to its minimum & my fingers stiffened by Rheumatism abhor the pen. I have notwithstanding gone thro’ the Pamphlet, and drop a line to thank you for it. I have found in the publication much that is very impressive, & very apropos to the...
183140Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 8 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
Mr Trist requested me to forward to you the accompanying Treatise on Cholera by the delegates, appointed by the French Government to examine into the Disease in Russia & Germany: and he at the same time begged me to ask you to be good enough to forward it to him after you have perused it. It is one of the most unpretending and satisfactory accounts of this Pest which I have seen. If the second...
183141James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 10 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 8th. with the little volume on Cholera forwarded at the request of Mr. Trist, which will be passed on to him as soon I have looked a little into it. I have recd. from Philada. the 2d. Vol. of your Physiology, & make now my acknowledgment for both. I wish I was more in a condition to profit of their contents. I have not been able as yet to do more than glance at them....
183142James Madison to David Malin and Charles B. Sedgwick, 19 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter of the 5th. Inst: informing me that I have been elected an honorary member of the Phi Gamma Alpha Society of Hamilton College. The regard which all ought to cherish for the laudable objects of the Society & the respect due to the names composing it, give to the honor conferred on me a value of which I am very sensible, & I beg you to communicate to the Society the...
183143James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 19 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
I return the little Volume on Cholera passed to me thro’ Docr. Dunglison. It attracts respect & confidence by the course of investigation pursued by the authors, & by the modesty with which results are presented. I will return by another mail Lee’s Vial of wrath or rather of rage. It ought to have been done long ago, & I owe an apology for the omission. It was some time before I could learn...
183144James Madison to Andrew Stevenson, 20 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
I return you many thanks for the warm cap which came safe to hand a few days ago: It is as comfortable as it may be fashionable, which is more than can be said of all fashions. I recd. at the same time a duplicate of the excellent pair of gloves, with which Mrs. Stevenson, allow me rather to say, my Cousin Sally has favored me. Being the work of her own hands they will impart the more warmth...
183145James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 22 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
The Copy of "Dermot MácMorrogh or the Conquest of Ireland" which I owe to your politeness, has been duly received. Having never myself been favored with the inspiration of the Muses, I am the less qualified to test it in others. Confiding nevertheless in the pleasure afforded by the perusal of the Poem, I will not withold the expression of that feeling, as an offering, be its worth but what it...
183146[Nicholas P. Trist] to James Madison, 23 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
Thinking on this subject last night in bed, it occurred to me that the most effectual way to keep these madmen in check, would be for the upper country in S. C.—(the only part of the state which is self-sufficient for the purposes of internal security, and which is decidedly against nullification) to say to the others, we here part company. If you choose to pursue this course, we will not; and...
183147James Madison to Dolley P. M. Cutts and Mary E. Cutts, 26 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
$400 I promise to pay to Dolley P. M. & Mary E. Cutts four hundred dollars, being the sum recd. on their accounts by a Draft from Colo. George Bomford, payable to the order of D. P. Madison on the U. S. Bank at Richmond dated in Octor last. Ms (owned by Charles M. Storey, Boston, Mass.).
183148James Madison to Josiah Quincy, 26 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects to President Quincy, acknowledges the receipt of two Copies of his Address at the Dedication of the "Deene Law College," one of them for the University of Virginia, the other for himself. The former has been duly forwarded. For the latter J. M. returns his thanks. A perusal of the Address, has been well rewarded by the valuable information & observations which it...
183149Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 28 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have already delayed several days longer than I intended, the acknowledgment of the receipt of the books, and of the gratification of receiving a letter written with your own hand, which the transmission of the Cholera Report through you has afforded me. I now snatch a moment for the purpose, while waiting for a document which I am to copy. The copy of L’s book, I had no idea of your...
183150James Madison to Peter Stephen Duponceau, 30 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects & regards to Mr. DuPonceau thanks him for the Copy of his Historical Discourse commemorating the 150th. anniversary of the Landing of Wm. Penn. J M has read with much pleasure, a performance which must afford pleasure to all readers, by the appositeness of its plan, and by the interesting and impressive manner which characterize the execution of it FC (DLC) .