To James Madison from Samuel A. Storrow, 16 April 1827
From Samuel A. Storrow
Farley April 16th ’27
My dear Sir
My estimable friend Mr Sparks will within a short time offer his personal respects to you. I can not better explain his objects than by inclosing the letter wherein he informs me of his intention. He will be the bearer of an open letter from me. You will find him a man of uncommon worth & intelligence. I know not his Superior.
The incessant cares of the nursery render my Wife a prisoner within her own walls. The labours of the field afford me but little more liberty. Owing to these causes it has been & will be out of our power to derive the pleasure & instruction which would be afforded by visiting you. We feel it as a privation. My Wife commends herself to Mrs Madison with the utmost respect. I beg leave to unite with her. To yourself I offer the expression of my respectful admiration.
S A Storrow1
RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.
1. Samuel A. Storrow (1787–1837) was judge advocate of the U.S. Army, 1816–21. In 1819 Storrow married Elizabeth Hill Farley Carter, the daughter of William Champe Carter, and settled at Farley, her family’s plantation in Culpeper County, Virginia (Florence T. Carleton, A Genealogy of the Known Descendants of Robert Carter of Corotoman [Irvington, Va., 1982], 107; Boston Commercial Gazette, 18 July 1816; William F. Fratcher, “Notes on the History of the Judge Advocate General’s Department, 1775–1941,” Judge Advocate Journal 1 [1944]: 6; Robert A. Lancaster Jr., Historic Virginia Homes and Churches [Philadelphia, 1915], 385).