301John G. Chapman to James Madison, 9 July 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty of forwarding to you by today’s mail the first half dozen proofs from the engraving from the Portrait you so indulgently suffered me to paint last autumn, and which has only been delayed by the anxiety of the Engraver to do justice to his subject I sincerely hope it may meet the approbation of Mrs. Madison and yourself and that you will feel disposed to make every...
302James Madison to John P. Kennedy, 7 July 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have received with your letter of June 19th. the copy of your discourse on the life & character of William Wirt. The condition of my eyes added to my general debility, and my continued indisposition, obliging me to read but little, and that little broken by intervals, I have not sooner been able to avail myself of the pleasure afforded by the discourse. I have ever regarded Mr Wirt as among...
303A. McCaraher and Others to James Madison, June 1834 (Madison Papers)
The undersigned Committee of Invitation to the Democratic Festival to be given at Fountain Green on the Fourth of July next, by those of the party who wish to revive the principles of the Democracy of ’98, have the pleasure of inviting you on behalf of the Company to Join them on that occasion. The objects of the festival are to bring together those democrats, who have been for some time...
304James Madison to the Committee of Citizens of Albemarle County, June 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have recd fellow citizens your letter inviting me, in behalf of a number of citizens of Albemarle to partake of a public dinner on the approaching 4th. of july. For this mark of their kind attention I can only offer an expression of my grateful sensibility; the debility of age with a continuance of much indisposition rendering it impossible for me to join them on the occasion. However...
305James Madison to Peyton Grymes and Others, June 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. friends & fellow Citizens your letter of inviting me on behalf of a portion of the Republican Citi[zens] of this district, to a public dinner, to be given to John M. Patton its Representative in the Congress of the U.S Gratified as I should be in meeting so many of my neighbors & friends, among them, the able & highly respected Representative of the District, the opportunity is...
306James Madison to the Committee for the Democratic Festival, Philadelphia, 29 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. fellow Citizens your letter inviting me to the Democratic festival to be given on the 4th of July. I beg that the Company may be assured of my due respect for so kind a mark of their attention. But the gratification, I might feel in being present on an occasion cherishg. the Constitutional doctrines, maintained by Virginia, in 1798-9, as an authentic view of the relations between...
307Peyton Grymes and Others to James Madison, 28 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
It has been resolved by a respectable portion of the Republican Citizens of this District, represented by the Hon. John M Patton, in the Congress of the U. States, to give Mr Patton a public Dinner in this Village at the La=Fayette Hotel, on Friday the 11th day of July next. We have been appointed a committee, on behalf of the meeting, to invite such distinguished Citizens of the Republican...
308John P. Kennedy to James Madison, 19 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty to send you by the mail that takes this a copy of my discourse on the Life & Character of Wm Wirt. The interest which you have always exhibited in the success of the subject of this memoir will perhaps incline you to a favourable regard for this attempt to preserve his memory with the American people. I trust it may find you restored to health and in the enjoyment of...
309[James Madison] to William Allen, 13 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a check on the Branch Bank of Va. for one hundred & ninety four dolls. 67 cents which please place to my credit on your books. I had written on the 27th. of May to Col. Peyton to remit to you on my account a part of the proceeds of some of my tobacco which he had sold. From some mistake of my intention this was not done. Should the mistake of which he has been apprized have been...
310George Joy to James Madison, 11 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you on the 4th ⅌ Philadelphia Packet enclosing copy of a letter of ancient date to my Brother, in which I believe the words "to Hamburg" after the words "in the Launch" in the 1st page were omitted by the copyist. There is a panegyric on Lafayette, in the Times of this morning, which I suppose will be transferred to the American Papers, in which the Author expresses his wonder that he...
311James Madison to Alexander Garrett, 9 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
Having thought it my duty, under the existing state and prospect of my health, to forward to the Governour my resignation as a visitor of the University of Virginia, I return your Draft on the Literary Fund that it may receive the requisite sanction from the proper source. Be pleased to accept at the same time assurances of my high esteem and cordial respects. FC (DLC) .
312Thomas W. Gilmer and Others to James Madison, 9 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
A number of the citizens of Albemarle, who have seen with regret and alarm the recent attempts to subject the coordinate departments of our federal government to the exclusive controul of the Executive, have made arrangements for a public dinner at this place on the approaching 4th of July. We have been desired in their behalf to invite you to unite with us on this occasion. Though you have...
313George Joy to James Madison, 4 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
It would be grateful to me to hear more from you than falls to my lot in these latter days. My last communication was conditional. I enclosed to Gales & Seton, under cover and open to Mr Livingston, a Times newspaper of the 5th. of feby 1833 containing a letter signed Senex, which I had sent to the Editor some 14 night before and which he had kept till he could make up his mind to an analogous...
314James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 27 May 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter informing me of the sale of my two Hds. Tobaco Some little delay has occured with those that are to follow owing to the difficulty of getting it in order for the Hds The quality of a part of which, may be superior to that lately sold, the price of which is certainly not to be complained of. It was not my intention to place in Bank to the credit of Mr E. Coles more...
315John Payne Todd to C. H. Carter, 27 May 1834 (Madison Papers)
Mr Madison being too much indisposed to use his own pen desires me to inform you he has duly received your letter of the 21st. May accompanied by copied letters from him to Genl. Lee. He thanks you for the kind sentiments expressed, and begs you to be assured of his cordial good wishes. Permit me Dr. Sir at the same time to offer you my esteem & respect. Your Obt St. FC (DLC) .
316James Madison to William Allen, 23 May 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your favor of the 21t: I regret the circumstance that my acct. with the Bank was overdrawn, It may have resulted from some inadvertent confusion between my acct. with you & that of the Bank—I thank you for the blank note inclosed in your letter, I take the liberty of filling it with the sum of 500$ I had hoped that the late accommodation from the Bank would have releived me...
317C. H. Carter to James Madison, 21 May 1834 (Madison Papers)
I received a short time since a letter from my relative Mr. C. C. Lee requesting me to make for you, copies of all your letters to his father Gen. Henry Lee, written in the latter part of the last century—I have made them, and send them by to days mail— In doing so, I assure you my good Sir, that it has afforded me real pleasure in having an opportunity of serving you, even in so slight a...
318James Madison to Littleton W. Tazewell, 17 May 1834 (Madison Papers)
For several years past a continued indisposition added to my very advanced age, has disqualified me for the most part, for the duties of a Visitor of the University of Virginia. Not despairing however, altogether of a favorable change, and unwilling to withdraw myself from an Institution in which I have felt so deep an interest, I have thus long postponed the tender of my resignation. A...
319H. G. Reynolds to James Madison, 15 May 1834 (Madison Papers)
The following Question is now before the Montpelier Lyceum, and is made the order of the day, for the two next succeeding meetings, viz.: "Ought the Bank of the United States to be rechartered? If it may be convenient for you, and you have no objections, I shall be very happy to ascertain your views upon the above named question, as soon as it may suit your convenience. It may be proper for me...
320George Watterston to James Madison, 5 May 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you a Certificate of membership of the Columbian Horticultural Society, established in this District. The Society have, with much pleasure, availed themselves of the opportunity of manifesting the respect they entertain for your character, by conferring this small mark of honor on one they so highly esteem, & who is so well qualified to promote the objects of the...
321James Madison to Ralph Randolph Gurley, April 1834 (Madison Papers)
private Since I recd. your letter of the 31st Ulto: requesting in behalf of the Revd Mr. Brooks now in Europe a letter of introduction to the friends of American Colonization in England & France, I have been more than usually indisposed; and for some days I have been suffering under a new malady which makes the use of the pen very painful. With that apology may I ask the favor of you to comply...
322C[harles] C[arter] Lee to James Madison, 28 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
I received but recently your letter of March 10th & instantly wrote to a friend in Washington (where the letters are of which you wish copies) to comply with your request. Among the papers of my father in my possession I find but two letters from you. I enclose a copy of one. The other was written in July 1807 in reply to one from my father concerning the outrage on the Chesapeake. As it is...
323Certificate of Honorary Membership in the Columbian Horticultural Society, 28 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
This is to certify that James Madison has been duly elected an honorary Member of the Columbian Horticultural Society established in the District of Columbia. Printed certificate (ICHi) .
324D’Alembert Thorntone to James Madison, 22 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
In the communication preceding the enclosed, I suggested some prominent features for a National Bank. After the Present Administration shall have passed away, (may Heaven grant it a short duration) there can be no doubt, but that a National Bank will be established. I would add a few more particulars in elucidation; as, in your hands, they may become subjects of investigation— Supposing each...
325James Madison to Richard H. Wilde, 21 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects to Mr. Wilde, thanks him for the copy of his speech on the reasons of the Secretary of Treasury for the removal of the Deposites; delivered in the house of Representatives, March 18. =34. The speech is certainly a very able one, and belongs to the first class, on that very distinguished subject. Amid the painful aspects presented in our public affairs, the pride...
326Isaac S. Lyon to James Madison, 20 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have now on hand a large collection of celebrated orations, addresses, Congressional Speeches, &c upon various subjects, in pamphlet form, which I intend to have handsomely bound together into a number of choice vols.—and should be happy to obtain some of the like productions of your truly eloquent and distinguished pen, to put with them. Should it be convenient, you would do me a particular...
327D’Alembert Thorntone to James Madison, 20 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
Our Country still bleeds at every pore—The Constitution and Laws violated with impunity—The Treasury laid open and scattered Abroad, without controul, without protection! The Voice of the People slighted and treated with contempt! The Redeeming Power , Congress, rendered Venal, by Corruption, thro’ the Post-Office, in Packing the Representative Chamber; thus rendering every effort abortive, to...
328James Madison to William Frederick Van Amringe and Others, 10 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
(committee of the Jefferson Democratic Society of Philadelphia) I have received fellow Citizens your letter of the 2d. Inst. inviting me in "behalf of the Jefferson Democratic Society of the City & County of Philadelphia to a dinner to be given by the Society on monday next at Heiskell & Badgers Hotel in commemoration of the birthday of the father of the Democratic Party--& the Author of the...
329James Madison to William Allen, 8 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. & thank you for your attentive favour of the 3d. and inclose a renewing note for the discount day. I inclose also $30 thirty dolars, out of which be so obliging as to pay to Mr. H. for the Virga. Herald. The balance may pass into the acct between us. I have recd a regular notice, (circular I presume) that Hay Taliaferro’s note payable to J. B. & of which I am an Endorsor is...
330James Madison to Benjamin Watkins Leigh, 2 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
J. M. with his respects to Mr. Leigh returns His thanks due for the copy of his Speeches on the "removal of the Deposits, &c. They present the views of the subjects taken by Mr. L, with an ability & eloquence, of which J. M had witnessed too many examples, not to have anticipated. FC (DLC) .