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...
531James Madison to Chapman Johnson, 3 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
It has been suggested that the Govr. may wait for some regular notice of the Death of Genl. Breckenridge before he fills the vacancy occasioned by it. I hope this is not the case. He has all the evidence of the event, that is possessed by any of us; and beyond that of the Newspapers, better means of ascertaining it than I have. Perhaps it wd. not be inconvenient for you to learn his views of...
532Chapman Johnson, to Governor John Floyd of Virginia to James Madison, 3 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have just received a letter from Mr. Madison, in which he says,— "It has been suggested that the governor may wait for Some regular notice of the death of Genl Breckinridge, before he fills the vacancy occasioned by it. I hope this is not the case—He has all the Evidence of the event possessed, by any of us,—and beyond That of the news papers, better means of ascertaining it, than I...
533Benjamin Waterhouse to James Madison, 30 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
It was a saying of one of the wise men of antiquity that a Great Book was a Great Evil ; thereby implying that a little book might be a good thing. Under this hope I here send for your amusement a little book ; which I made for a youth who sat out with about twenty others, older than himself, to go to the Pacific Ocean by land , by the way of the Rocky mountains; and absolutely proceeded to...
534James Madison to R. H. C. Taylor, 29 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
I recd. a few days ago your letter of May 1st relating to the military services of your father, during the Revolutiony. war; It adds that you & others have an interest also in the claims of your Uncles Francis & John. This is the first letter I have recd. from you on the subject of your Father’s personal service, or that alluded to that of your Uncle Francis. I had recd. one dated Jany 26....
535Henry Clay to James Madison, 28 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
I received in due course of the Mail your obliging letter of the 6t. Ulto. and was extremely happy in the inference, from observing one paragraph and the superscription in your hand writing, that your health was improved. Other accounts have also assured me of that agreeable fact. May it be fully re-established, and you long spared to us! Your prediction as to the quieting effect, at least for...
536James C. Fuller to James Madison, 27 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
It would have afforded gratification to have personally presented the letter of introduction on the other half sheet which I had anticipated doing, having promised to myself a visit to Virginia and had progressed as far South as Washington where I was detained eleven days, nine of them in consequence of my Son having caught the Smallpox or what is here termed Valairoid. My object in going to...
537James Madison to William Beach Lawrence, 26 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Mr. Lawrence, with the acknowledgments due for a Copy of the pamphlet Edition of the article in the N. A. Review, on the "Bank of the U. States." The pamphlet will be placed as it merits under the same Label with the other able & well written publications which have latterly appeared on the subjects of Currency & Banks. FC (DLC) ; draft (DLC) .
538William H. Brodnax to James Madison, 24 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to have received your favour of the 16th inst. covering a communication from Doctr Dunglison announcing his resignation of the Professorship which he now holds in the University of Va. It is an event which I learn with very great regret. The loss, I fear, will be a heavy one to that now flourishing institution. I recd. by the same mail a letter from the University, [where I...
539William C. Rives to James Madison, 22 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
The long continued rains have, for the last fortnight, deprived us of the pleasure of our contemplated visit to Montpelier, & the horrible state in which they have left the roads compels us, with regret, still to postpone it, for a few days. We look forward, however, with confidence, to the enjoyment of this satisfaction, in the course of the next week. In the mean time, I send you, in the...
540James Madison to Lyman C. Draper, 19 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, your letter of the 9th. inst: The task it suggests for me, is beyond the resources of time and attention which my great age and infirm health could spare for it. Apart from this consideration the answer I have given to other like applications would forbid an attempt to comply with yours—With friendly respects RC (WHi) .