451Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 7 October 1833 (Madison Papers)
It is my intention to quit this place, to which I shall ever be attached by many tender associations, on the 14th Inst., and I hope to be able to take leave of Mrs. Madison and yourself on that day. Our intention is to proceed to Dr. Terrill’s the same evening, so that our visit can be but short. Brief as it may be, I cannot willingly forego the pleasure of calling at Montpellier before I quit...
452William C. Rives to James Madison, 4 October 1833 (Madison Papers)
I had the satisfaction, on the eve of our departure for the Springs, to receive your kind letter of 2nd Aug. Having just returned home, I avail myself of the earliest moment to express to you the great pleasure I derived from the intimation it contained of your purpose to point to the errors of Mutius & others in their views of a political career, which had conferred so many inestimable &...
453James Madison to Jasper Adams, September 1833 (Madison Papers)
I received in due time, the printed copy of your Convention Sermon, on the relation of Christianity to Civil Government, with a manuscript request of my opinion on the subject. There appears to be in the nature of man, what ensures his belief in an invisible cause of his present existence, & an anticipation of his future existence. Hence the propensities & susceptibilities in the case of...
454James Madison to William Allen, 29 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
In my letter on the subject of the two calves, destined to your care from Baltimore, I omitted to ask the favor of you—when communicating their arrival at Fredg. to mention the size of them, & the best mode of conveying them hither; particularly whether they can best be brought on foot, or in a waggon or other Vehicle; Also what is the feed that wd. be best suited to their age whilst on the...
455George P. Morris to James Madison, 19 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
Ever since the receipt of the letter you were Kind enough to write me respecting the peculiar situation of your portrait, I have been endeavouring to procure another; but finding it impossible to obtain an accurate likeness, and being anxious that the engraving of your head should be unexceptionable in every particular, I have engaged Mr Durand, the first artist in New York, to visit...
456James Madison to Charles Bonneycastle, 26 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Durand distingd as an artist, on the list of Engravers & Portrait Painters, has been with me some days; and being anxious to make a visit to the University I cannot withold a line introducing him to your friendly attentions, of which he will be found well worthy. With great esteem & cordl. salutations Draft (DLC) .
457James Madison to W. G. Pendleton, 18 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
This will be handed you by F. C. Madison The son of my Nephew Robert Madison. It is his purpose to Matriculate in the University, and will be thankful, as I shall be, for any information which will be useful to him on his arrival, particularly for your attention in alloting him a convenient Dormitory, with an eligible Comrade, if there is to be one. With friendly respects RC (ViU) .
458James Kirke Paulding to James Madison, 18 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Morris, the respectable Editor & Proprietor of the New York Mirror, informs me that you have consented to sit for a Portrait, to be engraved for that Paper, and that Mr Durand will proceed tomorrow to Montpelier for the purpose of taking it. I have at his request, given Mr. Durand this Letter of introduction. I am not personally acquainted with Mr. Durand, but I know he is a gentleman whom...
459James Madison to William Allen, 15 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Patterson of Baltimore has presented to Mrs. Madison a pair of calves of the North Devon breed from the stock of the celebrated Mr. Coke of Holkam. They will be consigned to your care and I must ask the favor of you to receive them & have them well kept noting to me the cost of the feed &c. They will be sent for as soon as you inform me of their arrival, which will probably be early in...
460Henry Lee to James Madison, 15 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 14th of August, and have read it with that reverence which your age, and that respect which your character inspires. I beg to thank you for pointing out the misprint in regard to Mr Jay, which had led me into a labirynth of unpleasing conjectures. I regret that you have not condescended to correct the errors you perceive in my observations on...
461J. Joseph to James Madison, 13 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
I had the Pleasure to recieve by the favor of Mr Hagner, a letter from you with an enclosed check for ten Dollars, being the amount of my small Bill, for which Sir I return my sincere thanks. And nothing would give me a greater Pleasure and satisfaction to render any Improvement in the glasses that you may be pleased to require. And allow me Sir to return my acknowledged thanks for your kind...
462Peter Hagner to James Madison, 6 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
On the receipt of your favor I delivered to Mr Joseph the note addressed to him, with the package of glasses. He has just handed to me the inclosed package to forward to you, adding that if the Spectacles do not Suit in every particular, he will cheerfully make any alteration, or Send others on being advised thereof. I need not add how much pleasure it will afford me if I can further your...
463James Madison to William A. Duer, 4 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 28. Ulto., inclosing the outlines of your work on the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the U.S. The object of the work is certainly important and well chosen, and the plan marked out in the Analysis, gives full scope for the instructive execution which is anticipated. I am very sensible Sir of the friendly respect which suggested my name for the distinguished use...
464Louisa M. Patton to James Madison, 3 September 1833 (Madison Papers)
Presuming on the acquaintance you had, with my childrens Grandfather, Colonel Robert Patton, of Philadelphia, I solicit your influence in the department of War; that my oldest son (now 12 years of age,) may prove a successful candidate for West-Point. I am the Widow of your friends oldest Son, and dependant on my exertions, for the support of myself and two children. with much respect RC (DLC) .
465William A. Duer to James Madison, 29 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to refer to the enclosure as an apology for this intrusion, although one might perhaps have been admitted by your kindness in the hereditary claim I have to your acquaintance & my remembrance of a friendly intercourse between you and my deceased father, in my early days. Besides offering a just tribute of respect and veneration in inscribing my work to you, I venture upon the...
466David Weaver to James Madison, 29 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I inform you that I intend fattening forty or forty five head of hogs and I can supply you with pork this fall if you want any I can Supply you with as much as you want if my own hogs ante as meney as you want I can git more I Expect my hogs to be verry fat and if you give me five Dollars per cwt. I will bring them at your mention unless it Should be quite late or elce take them at the market...
467James Madison to [David Weaver], 29 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 29th. Augt. I will take 10,000 weight of pork at the price you mention $5 ⅌ hundred averaging not less than 140 each hog, to be delivered not before the first week of December. I will also take three of your Beeves at the market price & Mr. Brockman will if he can engage the other two. Please to inform me if you can furnish seven or eight bushels of cloverseed...
468James Madison to Caleb Cushing, 28 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
J Madison, with his respects to Mr. Cushing, returns his thanks for the Oration on the last 4th. of July. He has read with particular pleasure, the able & seasonable views which it presents of the Colonization Society. FC (DLC) .
469James Madison to James B. Longacre, 27 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 21 inst I am aware of the wish you naturally feel for such a biographical sketch of me as will preserve a uniformity in your Gallery; and I am glad that you are sensible of the controul I may feel in supplying materials for it. A friend will attempt a brief chronicle of my career, with perhaps a few remarks & references, and will forward the paper when...
470Peter Hagner to James Madison, 27 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have procured and enclose five Setts of glasses from which I hope you may be enabled to Select a pair to Suit you, if so I will with pleasure cause them to be framed in any manner you may direct. If neither should Suit your eyes, I will on being apprized of it, attend to Sending you any additional number to effect to me so desirable an object as to renew a Sight so important. With Sentiments...
471James Madison to William Patterson, 25 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 20th. has been duly recd. Mrs. Madison is quite delighted with the acceptable present you offer her, and feels all the additional value it possesses as a token of the kindness of one whom she so sincerely esteems. Mr. William Allen will be desired to take charge of the two interesting animals on their arrival at Fredericksburg. We unite in a tender of our best respects and...
472James Madison to Edward Everett, 22 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time the copy of your Address at Worcester on the last 4th. of July, and I tender my thanks for it. Its value is enhanced by the recurrence to remote events, interesting to the history of our Country. It would be well if all our Anniversary Orators, would follow the example of substituting for a part at least of their eloquent repetitions, occurrences, now new because they have...
473Thomas S. Grimké to James Madison, 21 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your gratifying letter of 10th instant came to hand two days since. I rejoice and am thankful, that the principal surviving Patriarch of the Golden age of 1789 (for with us the Iron age of 1776 preceded the Golden Age), has been pleased to speak so favorably of my efforts in the cause of Christianity and Liberty, of social order, benevolence and education. I have dedicated myself to these...
474James B. Longacre to James Madison, 21 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
The claims I have so recently urged upon your kindness, ought perhaps to deter me from any farther trespass on your attention; but the promptness and urbanity of your compliance in the first instance has given me confidence in addressing you, on which I should not otherwise have presumed. The high regard, which from the dawn of my understanding about men and things, I have entertained for your...
475William Patterson to James Madison, 20 August 1833— (Madison Papers)
You may perhaps recollect that Six or Seven years ago, I took the liberty of calling on you in company with one of my Sons, on our way to the Virginia Springs, and altho late I have still to thank you and Mrs Madison for the kind Civilities we then received from you both. Some years ago when some of my Family were in England, on a Visit to Mr Coke Member of Parliament, at his residence at...
476W[alter] Jones, [Jr.], to James Madison, 19 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
The bearer Mr. John G. Chapman is the young American artist, of whom you have probably heard, and who has spent some years at Rome & other parts of Italy, perfecting his taste & Execution by the study of the most celebrated paintings. His professional reputation is high, and I have Every reason to think deservedly so; and he is, besides, a young gentleman of great personal worth &...
477John F. Newman to James Madison, 16 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
At the request of my wife I assume the painful duty of announcing to you the death of her Father (Dr Robt. H Rose) he departed his life on the morning of the thirteenth Inst. of Cholera after an illness of eight and forty hours. We have supposed the disease was contracted in his late visit to St. Louis and Illinois from whence he had just returned. Should your afflicting disease, of which we...
478James Madison to Peter Augustus Jay, 14 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. inst. enclosing one from Major H Lee, has been duly received. On recurring to the original letter of Decr. 28. 1794, from Mr. Jefferson to me, it appears that both of you have been misled on the occasion of it, by an unlucky misprint of Jay , for Joy (G. Joy in London) the writer of the letter to me, referred to by Mr. Jefferson. This letter has no reference to your...
479James Madison to Henry Lee, 14 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
private I have recd. your letter of June 5th. under cover of one from Mr P A. Jay of New York. I find that you have been misled on the subject of Mr Jefferson’s letter to me of Decr. 28. 1794., by an unlucky misprint of Jay for Joy (G. Joy in London) the writer of the letter to which Mr. Jefferson refers. This letter has no reference to Mr. Jay nor to any thing that could be within the scope...
480James Madison to John Griscom, 11 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects to J Griscom thanks him for the copy of the well executed and instructive address to the Mechanics of Manchester, by J. J. Gurney. J. M. takes this occasion to repeat his thanks for the "Year in Europe," the sequel of what he had not read, at the date of his last, in no respect disappointed the favorable anticipations then expressed. RC (owned by Todd M. Axelrod,...
481James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 11 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
My wagon with 2 Hhds of Tobo. will arrive soon after this. They are the last of the Crop. After selling them, be so good as to let me know the balance for which I may draw. The Waggon on its return will bring the Articles noted below, which I must ask the favor of you to procure. With cordial respects Six Sacks of salt 500 # of Bacon assorted 50 # American blistered Steel Draft (DLC) .
482James Madison to Thomas S. Grimké, 10 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I owe you many thanks for the several communications with wch. you have from time to time favored me, since the date of my last; and I owe you many apologies for the delay in acknowledging them. The last favors just recd. are your "Oration on the 4th. of July" and "your letter on Temperance" In all of them I recognized the same ability accurate information & eloquence, the same vein of...
483James Madison to John Henry Sherburne, 10 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I received in due time your letter inclosing a portrait of your father, for which and the personal sentiments you express I return my thanks. My recollection of the political and personal good will always experienced from Col. Sherburne gives the due value to what is offered as a token of it; and the value is enhanced by its kindred effect in reminding me of the friendship of his near...
484James Madison to Lyman C. Draper, 9 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
(private.) Since your letter of 3d. June came to hand my increasing age and continued maladies, with the many attentions due from me, have caused a delay in acknowledging it, for which these circumstances must be an apology in your case, as I have been obliged to make them in others. You wish me to refer you to sources of printed information on my career in life, and it would afford me...
485James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 9 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I am much obliged by your favor of the 6th. just red. I find I possess the cypher for the period to which that enclosed belongs—I have also the letter of Mr J. from Tuckahoe May 7. 1783, in another cypher, with the words interlined. The paper of Mr Hamilton is the same with that printed in the Journals of the Convention. I shall with pleasure welcome Mr. Davis should he favor me with a call. I...
486James Madison to William Turpin, 9 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
private I have recd. your friendly letter of July 4. for which I tender my acknowledgments. It wd. require more time & effort, than would be convenient, in my very advanced age & decrepit health, to discuss at large the question of the Colonization Society, on which it appears we do not agree. I must limit my answer therefore to the remark that whatever be the difficulties it has to encounter...
487Henry Clay to James Madison, 8 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
Having been informed that Dr D. Drake of Cincinnati may possibly be nominated as one of the Professors, in the University of Virginia, in consequence of the resignation of Professor Dunglison, I take much pleasure in stating that I have been long and intimately acquainted with Dr. Drake; that as an author, as a professional man, and a gentleman, he is among the most eminent of our fellow...
488Peter Augustus Jay to James Madison, 8 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have received a letter from Mr. H. Lee inclosing that which I now send you: You will perceive that it has been sent to me unsealed. It was not my intention to trouble you on the subject to which it relates: but were I not to forward it my motives might be misunderstood. The remarks contained in the published writings of Mr Jefferson on the character of my late excellent father necessarily...
489Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 6 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
Towards the close of a thorough examination which I have made of Mr. Jefferson’s papers, and when I had nearly given up all hope, I found one cypher. This, by Mr. R’s permission, I now enclose, with the request that when you shall have made what use you want of it, it be put under cover to him. It is the only cypher now among his papers, I am confident. With it were several Schemes , from...
490James Madison to Gales & Seaton, 5 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 29th ulto. The task in which you are engaged is a very interesting one, and I should feel much pleasure in aiding your researches for the necessary materials. But my recollections are very barren. I know of no "debates" during the period of Lloyds, but his, which are very defective, and abound in errors; some of them very gross where the speeches were not...
491James Madison to William C. Rives, 2 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 28 ult was, my dear Sir, duly recd. I thank you for Mr. Tylers pamphlet with the accompanying News-paper: and I thank you still more for the friendly disposition you express on the subjects of them, as they relate to me. If I mistake not Mr. T. has omitted in his pamphlet a passage in the Newspaper Edition of his speech, which was levelled agst. the Virginia deputies to the...
492William C. Rives to James Madison, 1 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to introduce to you my friend Dr. R. C. Mason, a gentleman of distinguished intelligence & patriotism residing in the county of Fairfax, who is desirous of paying his respects to you, & at the same time, of presenting to you his friend Mr. R<...> of Philadelphia. Dr. Mason, you will doubtless recollect, is the gentleman who received so flattering a testimony of the high estimation of...
493James Madison: Essay on John Tyler’s attack on Virginia delegates to Constitutional Convention, July 1833 (Madison Papers)
To be revised & follow if necessary the publication of the letters. The public will decide how far it was becoming in Mr T. on the floor of the Senate where he represented the State of Virga. with <...> evidence before him, to Charge G. W. &ca. with a* design &c. *examine the Report in the Newspapers And Mr. T. himself, will decide how far it was just or candid, to disregard the disproofs of...
494Bernard Peyton to James Madison, 30 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have forwarded by Aleck in good order To your address Two Boxes Candles, Two <...> Lim<...> one Small Bundle Silk Two reams writing paper One Keg rice One Keg Mace Pepper Cinnamon Jug blue &c. &c. and Four Bundles Cotton Yarn Yours very respectfully I Received of Aleck Two Hhds Tobco. B. P pr ⅌ J. G. L. RC (DLC) .
495Gales & Seaton to James Madison, 29 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
We have at length made a beginning of a Work which we long since projected, the object of which is to preserve the Debates & Proceedings of Congress, constituting in fact the History of the country—the only History as yet, & of course the best—from the adoption of the Constitution until the Session of 1824-7, with which our Register of Debates begun. Of this new work we do ourselves the...
496William C. Rives to James Madison, 28 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
I found it a matter of more difficulty than I anticipated to procure a pamphlet copy of Mr. Tyler’s Speech, which I have now the pleasure to send you. After repeated ineffectual searches for it among my own collections of the last winter, & the failure of other efforts to obtain a copy, I, at length, wrote to a friend in Washington, who with difficulty procured that, which I am much gratified...
497James Madison to Samuel J. Carr, 25 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 19th. In reply to your enquiries concerning my health, prompted by such kind feelings, I cannot speak favorably. It continues to be very feeble, and with a Rheumatic Affection in my hands & fingers makes the use of the pen very awkward, as is shewn by this specimen. Mrs Madison to whom your enquiries are kindly extended, enjoys her usual health, and desires to...
498Simeon Hubbard to James Madison, 25 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
By a paper, now before me, I learn that you, still, are in vigorous health of mind. Reaumatism , I believe, tends to the preservation of our better part . Will you cast your mind about, with the view of determining whether it be so or not? This, however, is extraneous as respects my present object. I have heretofore, as you may perhaps recollect, conveyed to you, by letter, my fears as regards...
499George Tucker to James Madison, 23 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
I send herewith 92 pages of my manuscript for your leisurely inspection—It is far from my wish to subject you to the trouble of criticising it, or even of investigating its accuracy—but I thought that a cursory perusal might enable you to detect gross errors, or to perceive important omissions, & might not be altogether uninteresting. There is not much which will not require retouching as to...
500James Madison to Andrew Jackson, 19 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your letter introducing Mr Longacre was duly delivered by him. His distinguished reputation as an Artist was before known to me; and I soon found in his intelligence, his amiable manners, and his unaffected modesty, the further merits recommending him to your favorable notise. Having attained the object of his visit he is about to return through Washing[ton] and I avail myself of the occasion...