781James T. Austin to James Madison, 19 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
In a Biography of the late Vice President Gerry, which I published three years since, is contained such particulars, as I was able to procure, concerning his agency in the Convention for forming a Constitution of the U States. For the purpose of a revised edition of that work I take leave most respectfully to solicit a communication from you of any facts, connected with his services in that...
782John Daingerfield to James Madison, 18 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
It is made necessary for us to shew that my mother was the only Heir of her Uncle Henry Willis, to enable us to draw that portion of the funds of Loyal Company to which we are entitled as claiming under her, and will thank you for any aid you can give us in establishing the fact—Mr Gilmer the agent told me a certificate signed by two persons would be received as sufficient evidence—Present me...
783James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
private I regret that my memory can give you no aid in yr. search for the fact in question. It is possible that the Newspaper publishing the laws may have printed it soon as authorized; and may therefore be worth examining. The letters you refer to were both recd. & I thank you for them. Cordial salutations RC (DLC : Nicholas P. Trist Papers).
784William F. Gray to James Madison, 17 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed, I now have the pleasure of handing you the statement of my little acct. which you called for some time ago. Balance, if correctly stated $28.50— Your further, and frequent, orders will be thankfully recieved, by Your obliged & obt. svt. RC , enclosing account (DLC) .
785Jared Sparks to James Madison, 17 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment received your very obliging note of the 7th. instant. Yours of Nov. 25th. also came safely to hand. As to the main point in question, this letter seems to me conclusive, but I am still a good deal at a loss about the first draft of the Committee. The history of the composition of that draft would be a curious item in the proceedings of the convention. Perhaps it may...
786Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 12 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of 2d. ult: was received in due time by the mail at this place. The copy of your letter to Mr. Townsend of South Carolina was communicated to Mr. Pleasants, agreeably to your permission: & it would have been returned to you in conformity to your request, before now, had it not been for my indisposition, leaving me barely time to attend to my indispensable duties at this place. I...
787James Madison to Charles Burroughs, 9 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, the copy of the "Eulogium upon the late Chief Justice Ewing, by Governour Southard." The Character of the Chief Justice well merited the portrait of it so ably & instructively executed. Among the means of multiplying examples of distinguished work public & private is the commemorating exhibition of them for admiration & emulation. And in thus honoring a departed friend &...
788Edward Coles to James Madison, 8 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have been anxious ever since I left you to learn the state of your health. I have heard from Mr. Barbour, Mr. Ingersoll &c &c, that they had heard from you since I left you; but they were unable to furnish me much information, and it has now been some time since I have heard any thing directly or indirectly from you. Mrs. M. was so good as to say she or Payne would write me a line to let me...
789Edward Coles to James Madison, 8 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Thinking it possible, my dear Sir, you may not wish others to see what I am now about to take the liberty of writing to you, and if it should not be entirely agreeable to you that you can the more readily throw it into the fire and think no more of a thing which is known only to you and myself, I am induced to add, on a seperate sheet, that I have frequently thought of what passed in...
790James Madison to Edward Everett, 7 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have just discovered that in my letter of the 5th I overlooked your inquiry as to the accuracy of Lloyds debates. The accuracy of them is not to be relied on, though the ideas of the speakers, may for the most part be collected from them. The face of the debates shews that they are defective, and desultory, where not revised, or written out by the Speakers. In some instances, he makes them...
791James Madison to Jared Sparks, 7 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Having reason to beleive that several of my letters have miscarried during the casualties of the Season, and having just ascertained, that one written, some time ago to Mr E. Everett of Boston never reached him, it occurs, that my answer to your letter of on the subject of Mr Pinckney may have had a like fate. Say by a line whether it has, or has not. In the former case, I will send you a...
792James Madison to William Allen, 5 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I find that there is due for taxes on some property of mine in Washington the amt. $90.50 cts—for the yea<r>s 30, & 31—I must ask the favor of you to remit without delay that sum to—— Billing Collector of 1<st>. & 2d Wards, disposing of as much of my flour as may be necessary for that purpose FC (DLC) .
793James Madison to Edward Everett, 5 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 23d Decr. and am glad that the precaution of sending you a copy of my letter of the 14th of Novr. saved me from the appearance of inattention to which the miscarriage of the original exposed me. I wish I could abridge your researches into the period between 1783. 87. by referring to particular documents and publications throwing light upon it; but my memory...
794Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 5 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 2nd—was answered yesterday evening, & the answer went by this morning’s mail. Lest, however, it should meet with some accident, I repeat the information it contained. The law of Maryland, now in force here, makes no distinction between holograph and other wills. It requires that all wills be signed by the testator (or by some one by his express direction) in the presence of...
795Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 4 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 2d—postmarked 3d—was received this morning, after the departure of the mail. I immediately set about ascertaining what the law of Maryland was on the point in question, at the time of the cession: this being the law of Washington county in the District of Columbia, unless altered by act of Congress, which, I have ascertained, has not been done. The act of the Legislature of...
796W. W. Billing to James Madison, 3 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I enclose an account for Taxes due the Corporation of Washington for the years 1830 and 1831 amounting to Ninety dollars and 49 cents—the property occupied by Mr. Richard Cutts—In troubling you with application for payment of this bill it is proper I should state, that I have Calld on Mr. Cutts for it, but find there is no alternative remaining but to advertise the property for sale. On one...
797James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 2 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Will a holograph Will without Witnesses , convey real estate in Washington according to the law in force there? Mr. Trist will oblige his friend J. M by an answer. RC (DLC : Nicholas P. Trist Papers).
798James Madison to James K. Paulding, 1 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
According to my promise I send you the enclosed Sketch. It was my purpose to have enlarged some parts of it, & to have revised, probably blotted out others. But the present crippled State of my health, makes me shun the task; And the uncertainties of the future induce me to commit the paper, crude as it is, to your friendly discretion. Wishing to know that it has not miscarried, drop a single...
799James Madison to Richard Rush, December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I thank you my dear Sir for the kindly put under a cover to me. It derives particular interest from the Columns subscribed "Temple". I had seen the preceding publication bearing that fictitious name, with a ready inference of the real one. The general character of the Whig party in England is as eloquently painted, as the position & perplexity of its leaders now in power are accurately...
800James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, December 1831 (Madison Papers)
Returned with the respects & thanks of The phenomenon referred to, if authentic and not explained by peculiar & transitory circumstances, is remarkably at variance with the general reasoning on the subject. RC (DLC : Nicholas P. Trist Papers).
801James Madison: Notes on nullification and the nature of the Union, December 1831 (Madison Papers)
thinks it more desirable than probable that on discussing the urgent case of S. C, abstract questions may be avoided; that if not avoided, it is important that the several speakers shd. distinctly understand the meaning of each other, without wch. the debates may become verbal unintelligible & interminable; that it is particularly important to be kept in view that the characteristic...
802James Madison to Ralph Randolph Gurley, 29 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I received in due time your letter of the 21st Ult. and with due sensibility to the subject of it. Such, however, has been the effect of a painful Rheumatism on my general condition, as well in disqualifying my fingers for the use of the pen that I could not do justice "to the principles and measures of the Colonization Society in all the great and various relations they sustain to our own...
803James Madison to David Michie, 24 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your friendly letter of the 16th & am much obliged by the kind interest you take in my health. I wish I could give you a more favorable account of it but the Rheumatism aided by the rigor of the Season has gained much upon me. It has crippled my limbs and has not spared my hands & fingers in so much that in the few lines I have to put on paper I am obliged to make use of a...
804James Madison to William B. Sprague, 24 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 12th and would cheerfully make a direct application for the Autograph of Mr Blair if I knew the proper source. Mr Tyler a Virginia Senator in Congress will I beleive be able to ascertain it and doubtless equally willing to attend to your wishes I take the liberty therefore of suggesting the expediency of a line to him on the subject. I am laboring under a severe...
805Edward Everett to James Madison, 23 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have this day Your favor of the 21st, accompanied with a copy of a letter of the 14th Nov. The latter, I am concerned to say, never reached me. Deeply regretting its loss, I am nevertheless gratified to find, that it had occurred to You, that my neglect to answer it, was not intentional. I return You, with many thanks, the pamphlet You were good enough to send me. I feel very much gratified,...
806James Madison to Edward Everett, 21 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
In my letter thanking you for the Copy of your address to the American Institute of New York I took occasion to remind you of the little pamphlet addressed by the Virginia Assembly of 98 to its Constituents and of the other containing the report of a Committee of the legislature of South Carolina in 28. They were enclosed to you at or about the date of my letter published in the North American...
807James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 21 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I return the Newspapers. The passage referred to is a sad sample of Pulpit authenticity, justice & delicacy. In what relates to me, there is scarce any part wholly true in the sense intended. How such a string of misinformations cd. have been gathered, it is not easy to imagine. I never studied law with Mr. Jefferson. The Story of my father’s interference, & my evasion of his anxious...
808James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 18 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 14th. with the printed communication is recd. It was not my object in the remarks on Col. H. B Speech to suggest any immediate publication in any form on the subject. I thought it well that a discreet & friendly hand should possess & preserve an antidote to mistatements whether White or black. I detain the newspapers a day or two for perusal of the passages referred to Affect....
809David Michie to James Madison, 16 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have thought the enclosed paper might give you perhaps, a better acct. of the Belgium & Holland question, & a more detailed statement of the fate of the reform bill, than you may, in other papers, have seen. I therefore send it to you—Should I get any pamphlets or papers from Washington or else where that I may think interesting, I will take the liberty of sending them to you, likewise under...
810Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 14 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your letter & the Speech are recd.—Your signature on the frank indicated but too plainly the state of your hand; and I fear that this unprecedented weather strengthens the enemy to the point of allowing you no rest. I shall write a few lines to-night, if not prevented. Meanwhile Affte adieux RC (ViHi : Nicholas P. Trist Album Book).