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,...