From James Madison to William T. Dwight, 23 March 1827
To William T. Dwight
Montpr. Mar 23. [18]27
J. M present his respects to Mr. D,1 with thanks for the copy of his oration, before the Washington Benevolent Society.2 He has noticed with pleasure the appropriate remarks pervading the Oration and the patriotic spirit which animates it.
Draft (DLC).
1. William Theodore Dwight (1795–1865), son of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, was a graduate of Yale who went on to become a Philadelphia lawyer, 1821–31, and later pastor of the Third Congregational Church of Portland, Maine, 1832–64 (Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College […] [New Haven, 1866], 197–98).
2. William T. Dwight, An Oration before the Washington Benevolent Society of Pennsylvania, Delivered in the Hall of the Musical Fund Society, on the 22nd of February, 1827 (Philadelphia, 1827; 28747).