501Samuel J. Carr to James Madison, 19 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
I hope that you will excuse the liberty I now take in addressing you, as it is prompted only by a strong desire, (which is common to all American citizens) to learn the actual state of your health about which we hear frequent and alarming reports. Although you are fast verging towards the natural term of human life, and have begun to experience the encroachments of time; our Country has great...
502James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 14 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have seen no evidence yet that a successor has been appointed to Mr Breckenridge. I hope the Govr. has not waited for the formality of a notice of his Death, as the event was a matter of certainty and notoriety, and as well known to the Govr. as it could be to any of the Visitors. I took for granted that there would be no scruple or delay in filling the vacancy. On the first suggestion that...
503James Madison to Richard Rush, 13 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
The Volume so kindly presented to Mrs. Madison and myself has afforded us great pleasure. Few can read it without receiving information both new and instructive—and none without being gratified on many points interesting to their curiousity. No part of it will probably be more welcome to the public, than that which gives a hope that the work will be followed by other drafts from the same fund...
504George Tucker to James Madison, 12 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
My delay in returning you my thanks for your very obliging letter & its valuable contents has ill accorded with the grateful feelings they inspired. I consider that the opinions expressed in both those letters as well as the reasons by which they are supported will make them a most valuable addition to my forthcoming work. I had not been unmindful of Mr. Jefferson’s repeated references to the...
505Board of Visitors, University of Virginia, 12 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
A quorum of the Board was not formed untill Friday, July 12th. when John H. Cocke & Joseph C. Cabell appeared and took their seats. A communication from Mr. Madison, Rector was received, apprising the board of his inability to attend their session; whereupon Joseph C. Cabell was elected Rector pro tempore. The following committees were then appointed, viz Of Inspection; Messrs. Cabell, Cocke,...
506Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 11 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
A note from Mr Kane informs me that Mr Longacre—whom I had previously the pleasure of knowing, and whom he speaks of as "one of our most accomplished & estimable Philadelphia artists, is on his way to Virginia, and proposes to visit Montpelier in the hope that it will not be found too inconvenient to you to allow him an opportunity to take your picture. Mr Kane says he has never seen a good...
507[James Madison] to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 8 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letters contain all the information I can give on the subject of a successor to Dr. Dunglison. Neither My personal knowledge nor the enquiries such as I have been able to make can add any thing. I hope the other members of the Board will not be under the same disadvantage. I am extremely sorry that I must again fail in my attendance, but my crippled & debilitated condition makes...
508[James Madison] to George Tucker, 6 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
I inclose my answer to two letters from Mr. Jefferson, referred to in your inquiries Thro’ Dr. Dunglison. They are in the form of extracts, the answers one of them more particularly containing irrele<vant> paragraphs, not free from delicate personalities. You will have noticed the letter of Mr Jefferson to Docr. Gem immediately following that of Sept 6. to me, as explaining the age of a...
509William Turpin to James Madison, 4 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
The other day I was Extremly Sorry to See your Name in a Newspaper, their Calld a freind and Supporter of the Affrican Colonising Society, as your Name gives Credit where ever it is fixed, all the members of that Society in Public Declare that it is for bettering the Condition of the Negroes that they have in Veiw by sending them to Affrica, yet many of the head Promoters of this Cruelty, have...
510Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 2 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
You were right in supposing that my thoughts had been given to the subject of the void made in the University by the resignation of Dr Dunglison; but I am sorry to say that it has not been to any purpose. Indeed I was satisfied from the beginning that it would be utterly impossible to fill his place, even tolerably; and that the days of the Medical School in our University were numbered. I...
511James Madison to Henry Clay, June 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of May 28th. was duly received. In it you ask my opinion on the retention of the land bill by the President. It is obvious that the Constitution meant to allow the President an adequate time to consider the bills &co. presented to him, and to make his objections to them; and on the other hand that Congress should have time to consider and overrule the objections. A disregard on...
512James Madison to R. H. C. Taylor, June 1833 (Madison Papers)
Since my answer to your two letters, I have heard nothing from Mr. Clarke, on the subject of them from which I infer as I do from other circumstances, that he can give no aid to the search for evidence of the military services of your two Uncles. I now learn that Col Robt. Taylor Junr. on the advice of his father with whom I had communicated on the subject, has put what papers and information...
513Alexander Garrett to James Madison, 28 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
Annexed I send for your approval, my check on the President & Directors of the Literary Fund, for Five thousand dollars; you will recollect, that in the letter I sent you some time ago, from Mr. Pendleton the Proctor, he suggested the necessity of drawing the above sum, so as to meet the quarter salaries to the Professors on the first of next month, and that the Va. Auditor has authorised the...
514James Madison to Edmund H. Taylor, 26 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 5th inst: It would have given me much pleasure to have aided you in your search for information relative to the military services of your two Uncles; but neither my personal recollections, nor acquired knowledge, put it in my power to do so. In consequence of a like application from Mr. R. H. C. Taylor, I had endeavored in vain to trace thro’ the oldest...
515Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 24 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
My friend Dr Patterson & myself have arranged our University matters in such sort as to be able to pay a hurried visit to his Daughter on the Rappahannock; where we shall pick up Miss Leiper, who will return with us to the University. It is my earnest desire to pay my respects to you, and Dr. Patterson & Miss Leiper will probably accompany me. We shall be at Montpellier on Tuesday the 2d....
516James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
You are aware of the loss the University is sustaining by the resignation of Doctr Dunglison, and must be equally so, of the difficulty of filling the vacancy. There is no prospect of doing it from the Faculty of Virga. I hope you will have turned your thoughts to the subject, and I must ask the favor of you to avail yourself of the opportunities you have, especially if you should visit...
517James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 30th. Ult was duly recd. with the little volume to which it refers. The facts contained in this, are an acceptable appendix to the stock of information on a subject which has awakened much curiosity. I the less wonder at the relish shewn for such a treat as you have provided, considering the plums & the sauce you have added to the pudding. Altho’ the state of my eyes permit...
518John C. Hamilton to James Madison, 20 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
Mr. J. C. Hamilton has the Honor to acknowledge the receipt by this days Mail of the Extract from Mr. Madisons notes of the Debates in the Convention of 1787. He is duly sensible of Mr. Madisons prompt acquiescence to his request for a copy of this paper and begs leave through him to present his most respectful compliments to Mrs. Madison. RC (DLC) .
519Robert Taylor to James Madison, 20 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have shown to son Robert the letter from E. H. Taylor to you and have received for answer that he has put some papers of the late Colo. Francis Taylor into the hands of Mr. Archibald Magill Green, of Richmond, who for a portion of what may be recovered, has undertaken to investigate & prosecute his claim. Mr. Green is experienced in these matters, and thinks he shall be able to succeed in...
520John J. Coleman to James Madison, 16 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
You have probably been informed by Mr Jno., H, Lee of Kentucky of an arrangement which he made with me, in relation to my paying you some money. He sent you by me $400 & requested me to advance six or eight hundred more, which he would replace to me on my return, The business has been delayed in consequence of my funds not being ready when I came. I have now $800 in the hands of Doct H, N,...
521Philip R. Fendall to James Madison, 15 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th. inst., inclosing fifty dollars for the use of the American Colonization Society. Permit me to say on behalf of the Board, that they entertain a due sense of this and other indications of various kinds, heretofore given, of your attachment to the cause of African Colonization. To the Managers it is a source of pleasure and...
522[James Madison] to James C. Fuller, 13 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 27th. Ult. accompanying the introductory one from my friend Mr. Joy. It is not probable, had you made your intended visit, that I could have given you as useful advice on the object of your pursuit as may be obtained from other sources, especially as Virginia may not be the State, in which you would prefer an establishment. I may say nevertheless, that the...
523James Madison to Philip R. Fendall, 12 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 6 inst containing among other communications on the part of the Managers of the Colonization Society, the exhausted state of its Treasury. This is the more to be lamented, as it is in one view an indication favorable to the interesting object for which the Society was formed. I hope the late Circular appeal of the Board of Managers to the friends of that object...
524John Henry Sherburne to James Madison, 12 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to ask your acceptance of the portrait herewith transmitted, of my late lamented father, and also, to assure you that the same feeling of pure friendship and esteem for your exalted character, which was ever uppermost in my late fathers bosom, and also in that of my late uncle John Langdon glows as fervently in the heart of truly your devoted Servt. RC (DLC) .
525James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 10 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
It is so long since the date of your letter informing me that you should in a few days make sale of my Tobo. and would immediately give me an account of it, without my hearing from you, that I suspect a letter must have miscarried. In that case, be so obliging as to forward a duplicate. Taking for granted that the Tobo. would have been sold I draw on you for ninety dollars in favor of Mr....
526Bernard Peyton to James Madison, 10 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
Sales Tobacco by Bernard Peyton For account James Madison Esqr 1833 June 5 For Cash. . 4 Hhds Tobacco (viz) J. M. #3. 1424. 134. 1290 @ $8— $103.20 4. 1316. 134. 1182. . .7.50 88.65 5. 1392. 142. 1250. . .8.50. . . 106.25 6. 1444. 434. 1310. . .7.50. . . 98.25 _________ $396.35 Charges Paid for notes $2—Commission 2 1/2 pr cent $9.91 11.91 Nett proceeds $384.44 Account (DLC) .
527Matthew Maury to James Madison, 8 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
Learning from my Father that it was his intention to make you a visit, I have taken the liberty of addressing his London Papers to you, & I am sure he will second me in the request that you will make use of them— The present posture of affairs in England, the actual change which the Reform Bill has worked in the relative position of Ministers & Parliament, & the many new propositions made in...
528Lyman C. Draper to James Madison, 4 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 19th May was recd the 26th of the same month. I am under the necessity of troubling you again for some information respecting your useful life. If there has ever been any sketches of your life published either in the form of Books, Periodicals or Newspapers, I would request you to mention them to me, and would furthermore request you to mention the dates of the Periodicals and...
529Henry Lee to James Madison, 4 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
It is some time since I submitted to the public certain observations on the writings of the late Mr. Jefferson, intended to vindicate my fathers memory from a gross and virulent slander contained in that mass of misrepresentations. Many of these observations were suggested by a letter of the 28th. Decr. 1794, addressed by Mr. Jefferson to yourself. Its first paragraph I did not refer to, as I...
530Edmund H. Taylor to James Madison, 4 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
A Stranger to you but descended from a numerous family by whom I have been always taught to venerate your name I take the liberty of addressing you for the purpose of ascertaining whether you cannot give me some information that may be useful in establishing the fact that my Great Uncle Francis Taylor was a Major in service at the close of the Revolutionary war and in consequence under the...