901Simon Bernard to James Madison, 12 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I shall not leave this country without expressing, most respectfully to you, my warmest thanks for the generosity you displayed towards me at an epoch so desastrous for my native country. To you, I and my family were indebted for an honourable asylum on this land of peace and freedom. Under your auspices, I was associated to the framing of that defensive System, the conception of which belongs...
902Robert G. Scott to James Madison, 12 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
On my return from a visit to Old Point Comfort, I received your kind letter of the 7th inst , covering a copy of a letter from Mr Robert Walsh of Philadelphia, asking for information in relation to the late Bishop Madison, with a view of introducing into the Encyclopedia Americana a biographical sketch of this most estimable man—Nothing I assure you can afford me more sincere gratification,...
903James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 11 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have apprized my Colleagues of the Board of my inability to join them & of the causes of it. My eyes are getting a little better; but the Rheumatism is I fear a guest not in a hurry to take leave. It is painful & cripples much my lower limbs. Our narrow escape from the threatened loss of two Professors has awakened my solicitude to guard agst. such dangers, at least in the case of the...
904James Madison to John W. Francis, 9 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. communicating the death of Mr. Monroe, was duly recd. I had been prepared for the event, by information of its certain approach. The time of it was so far happy as it added another to the coincidences before so remarkable & so memorable. You have justly ranked him with the heroes & patriots who have deserved best of their Country: No one knew him better than I did, or...
905James Madison to Alexander Hamilton, Jr., 9 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of June 30 was duly recd. and the death of Mr. Monroe which it anticipated, became, I learn, a sad reality on the 4th. instant; its date associating it with the coincidencies before so remarkable & so memorable. The feelings with which the event was recd. by me may be inferred from the long & uninterrupted friendship which united us, and the intimate knowledge I had of his great...
906[Nicholas P. Trist] to James Madison, 8 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
It may, perhaps, be important to you to know that a conversation with General Bernard to-day has satisfied me of the extreme probability of War (perhaps general ) in Europe Yrs affly Of course this intelligence is, in a great measure confidential. RC (ViHi : Nicholas P. Trist Album Book). Docketed by JM.
907James Madison to Robert G. Scott, 7 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd a letter from Mr Walsh, a copy of which is enclosed. Not possessing the detailed information he wishes, & presuming that you can readily furnish it, I must ask your aid in complying with the request made notwithstanding the affectionate intercourse with my kinsman during the few years of my residence in Williamsburg; we had previous to that period been strangers to each other,...
908Tench Ringgold to James Madison, 7 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I gave you, on the 4th instant, a short account of the death of your old and valued friend Mr Monroe; and now perform the promise, then made, to write to you again before I left this City. I have been his constant attendant & nurse, since the first of May, with the exception of one week; during all May & part of June, he had chills & fever every day, they were however subdued early in June,...
909Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 7 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I am returning to the City from a trip to the Rip Raps (the most delightful spot, as to atmosphere, I have ever been at) in company with the President, and sit down to scrawl a few lines in the hope of their reaching you in time. I have good grounds for thinking that your presence—if it be only for one or two days—at the approaching meeting of the Visitors will be highly important to the...
910James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 6 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. lately the inclosed communication. Your position & range of information on the points of its inquiry, being so much superior to mine, I must ask your aid in giving the answers; with an exception of that relating to the laws of Usury, wch. the Statutes will furnish. The task being of a publick nature, and of common obligation, I will without apology presume on your willingness to take...
911James Madison to Thompson and Homans, 5 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
J. M. with his respects to Messrs. Thompson & Homans, returns his thanks for the Copy of their new Edition of the "Federalist", politely sent him. Its convenient form, and still more its valuable Index, can not fail to recomend it much to those who may wish occasionally, to examine or refer to any part of its Contents. FC (ViU) .
912Tench Ringgold to James Madison, 4 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
It falls to my lot to communicate to you the death of our excellent friend Mr Monroe. He died exactly at half past 3 oClock P. M after a lingering illness, but easy death. I have only time to say thus much as this goes by express to overtake the mail which has 2 hours start of the express. My respectful compls to Mrs Madison. I will write more fully tomorrow. What a remarkable coincidence of...
913Robert Walsh to James Madison, 3 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I wish to introduce into the Encyclopedia Americana, published at Boston, a biographical Sketch of Bishop Madison of Virginia. There is a notice of him in the American edition of Lempriere’s Universal Biography, but it is too slight for my purpose. Perhaps, you may have within reach, some memoranda concerning the periods of his birth, education, & death, his public Stations & labors, & his...
914Thompson & Homans to James Madison, 1 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
We take the liberty of requesting your acceptance of the accompanying Copy of the new edition of the " Federalist ." We have added to this Edition a copious analytical Index, and a Table of Contents—Our aim has not been to make a fine book, but to render what we consider a truly valuable Constitutional Classic, more easy of access to every American Citizen, & its important Contents more...
915Alexander Hamilton[, Jr.] to James Madison, 30 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
The newspapers having announced the dangerous indisposition of your much respected friend Col James Monroe, I have the melancoly task of informing you that his death is inevitable, and will most probably take place before this reaches you. Mr Monroe retains entire possession of his mental faculties and with perfect firmness and integrity awaits his demise. I avail myself of this opportunity to...
916James Madison to Edward Coles, 28 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 12th and am very sensible of the good views with which you request an answer at length to the claim of the new States to the Federal Lands within their limits. But you could not have sufficiently adverted to the extent of such a job, nor have recollected the age I have now reached itself an infirmity, with others always more or less incident to it; nor have been...
917William Allen to James Madison, 28 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have delay’d replying to Mr Payne’s letter of the 22d. requesting me to inform you how much Flour then was onhand for a Week, under the daily expectation of procuring a Waggon to take up the Bacon & Whiskey ordered, but have been unable to get one. The quantity of Flour on hand is 27[ ] Barrels Superfine at your credit & thirty one barrels at the credit of M. Payne. With regard to the...
918James Madison to James K. Paulding, 27 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
With your favor of the 20th. inst: I recd the Volume of Pamphlets containing that of Mr Chs. Pinckney, for which I am indebted to your obliging researches. I have not yet sufficiently examined the pamphlet in question, but have no doubt that it throws light on the object to which it has relation. I had previously recd yours of the 13th. and must remark that you have not rightly seized the...
919James Madison to Jared Sparks, 27 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 16th inst. inclosing a copy of the letter of Mr Chas Pinckney to Mr Adams, accompanying the draft of a Constitution for the U.S. and describing it, as essentially the draft proposed by him to the Federal Convention of 1787. The letter to Mr Adams was new to me. Abundant evidence I find exists of material variances between the two drafts, and I am sorry that...
920James Madison to Charles J. Ingersoll, 25 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have received your friendly letter of the 18th. inst. The few lines which answered your former one of the 21st Jany last, were written in haste & in bad health: but they expressed, though without the attention in some respects due to the occasion, a dissent from the views of the President, as to a Bank of the U. S. and a substitute for it; to which I cannot but adhere. The objections to the...
921James Madison to George W. Spotswood, 21 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the instant; and am truly sorry for the change in your prospects at Charleston, wch may occasion yr. removal to some other situation. The regard due to your amiable family is justly the ruling consideration in such cases; and you well know the good wishes of both Mrs. M. & myself which have attended all your efforts to make a provision worthy of them, & your own...
922James K. Paulding to James Madison, 20 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
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923James Madison to Thomas W. White, 17 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 13th. inst: Although I give you full credit for the motives and objects of it, I must appeal against the claim founded on them, to my great age now in the 81st. year, and to the infirmities which I feel to be incident to it. To this plea I might add, that whatever remnant of life or degree of health may be my lot, they are under appropriations which would not...
924Charles Eaton Haynes to James Madison, 17 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
Public & private engagements, in different health, & an unwillingness to intrude upon your retirement, have prevented any reply to the communication with which you honored me last February: But, as I find your assent to the charter of the Bank of the United States placed on different grounds in the Washington Globe of the 11th. instant from those stated by you in that communication, I beg you...
925Jared Sparks to James Madison, 16 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have procured from the Department of State a copy of the letter from Mr Charles Pinckney to Mr Adams, when he sent his draft for publication. This letter is so conclusive on the subject, that I do not think it necessary to make any further inquiry. It is evident, that the draft, which he forwarded, was a compilation made at the time from loose sketches and notes. The letter should have been...
926James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 15 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 11th., and will not disguise the fact, that notwithstanding my sympathy with the considerations, which might have deprived the University of your valuable services, I learn with satisfaction, that the danger has not been realized; and I hope experience will prove, that the mountain climate is less charged with rheumatic tendencies than occurred to you in your...
927James Madison to Waitman T. Willey, 14 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 6th. inst. and cannot more conveniently comply with the request it makes, than by inclosing a manuscript "statement of the expences of a Student of the University of Virga." with a printed Copy of "its Enactments"; and by referring to an article on College Instruction & Discipline in the last Am. Quarterly Review Edited by Mr. Walsh, which I observe contains...
928James K. Paulding to James Madison, 13 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I fear you will begin to suspect me of neglect in complying with your request in relation to the pamphlet of Mr. Pinkney. I have however always borne it in mind, and pursued my inquiries at every convenient opportunity, intending to communicate the final result, rather than trouble you with its details. I have not been able to trace Childs’ Papers. They are probably dispersed or lost. There is...
929Thomas W. White to James Madison, 13 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
As the subject of rechartering the Bank of the United States, as well as the policy of the banking system generally has been much discussed recently, and as the mind of a statesman, like yourself, whose opinions are deservedly valued and highly reverenced by the great body of your fellow-citizens, must, without doubt, have been often turned to this subject, and given it a close scrutiny, I...
930James Madison to John H. Lee, 12 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter contains the answer given on the part of Mrs. Willis to your favor of Apl. 13. I concur in the request that you will be governed altogether by your own judgement in the steps remaining to be taken, in the trust you have so kindly undertaken & so judiciously managed for us. On the question of buying in the land, if sold under the decree of the Court, and of selling it out on...
931Edward Coles to James Madison, 12 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I send you enclosed two communications of the Governor, & a report of a Committee of the Legislature of Illinois, in relation to the right of the States to the public Lands situated within them. The great interest felt by many Citizens in this and other States in which the U. S. claim the soil, and the apprehension of the consequences which may result from a conflict between the States...
932Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 10 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
It has for some years, been a subject of regret with Mr Huygens to have passed near Montpellier without having it in his power to make a pilgrimage to it. He now travels under circumstances more propitious to his wishes, and affords me an opportunity to recall myself in an agreeable manner to your & Mrs Madison’s recollection RC (ViHi : Nicholas P. Trist). Docketed by JM.
933George W. Spotswood to James Madison, 8 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
Far distant from the friends I am most attached to I am frequently led to reflect on the many happy days I have spent in there society These reflection are productive of associations the most agreeable that you can possably immagine except, when mixed with the recollection of the pecuniary change that has taken place in my family then I am led on to contrast my former situation in life with...
934James Maury to James Madison, 7 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter of 29 April, which reached me at Newyork. This place is the residence of my only remaining sister, who is married to a Mr Herndon. I have been here a week; and, perhaps may remain a week or ten days longer; after which it is my intention to go on to my son’s near Charlottesville; but Montpellier being so much on the way, I must avail of your kind invitation as...
935James Madison to James K. Paulding, 6 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter answering yours of Apl. 6., in which I requested you to make an enquiry concerning a small pamphlet of Chs. Pinckney, printed at the close of the Fedl. Convention of 1787, it has occurred to me that the pamphlet might not have been put in circulation, but only presented to his friends &c. In that way I may have become possessed of the Copy to which I referred as in a damaged...
936James Madison to Robert M. Patterson, 1 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with great pleasure the information in your letter of the 11th that the University is not to lose your Co-operation in its fortunes; and that it more than retains the warm interest you have taken in them. Mrs. M. & myself feel all that is due to your & Mrs. P’s kind invitation to make a part of your family during the approaching Session of the Board of Visitors. But...
937James Madison to Jared Sparks, 1 June 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the 24. Ult. and inclose the little pamphlet by Govr. Morris which it refers to. Unless it is to be printed entire in the Volumes you are preparing, I should wish to replace it in the Collection from which it is taken. Of other unofficial writings by him I have but the single recollection, that he was a writer for the Newspapers in 1780 (being then a member of...
938James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your letter of the 9th. and with it the Vol. on the authorship of "Junius". Altho’ it found me but little at leisure & in crippled health, I felt too much respect for the writer, not to say curiosity for the subject also, not to give it an entire reading. Whether you have untied the knot at which so many ingenious hands have tugged in vain, I will not make myself a Judge. I...
939James Robertson, Jr., to James Madison, 24 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have just received from Mr. Wm. Allen of Fredericksburg, the sum of one hundred and twenty Dollars, with a request that it may be deposited in this office to the credit of Edward Coles. At the request of the same gentleman I have now to inform you that I have done so. With much respect, I am, Sir, Your obedt. Serv. RC (DLC) .
940Jared Sparks to James Madison, 24 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I am under many obligations to you for your full and satisfactory letter, respecting the part taken by Gouverneur Morris in the Convention. The information is valuable, & not to be obtained in any other Quarter. I should not trouble you at present, were it not for a hint contained in the postscript to your letter, respecting a pamphlet by Mr Morris on the threatened repeal of the law of...
941James Madison to Charles Carter Lee, 17 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 9th. inclosing a long latent one from your father. My acquaintance with him commenced at a very early stage of our lives; and our friendly sympathies never lost their force; though deprived, for long periods, of the nourishing influence of personal intercourse, and exposed occasionally, to the disturbing tendency of a discordance in political opinions. I could...
942Daniel Parker to James Madison, 17 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
Allow me to bring myself again to your kind recollection in the introduction of my friends Doctor Rd. Harlan and Mr. Wm Norris of Philadelphia—These gentlemen are traveling for amusement and in pursuit of interesting objects of natural science They are not willing to pass near you without making their personal respects to yourself and Mrs. Madison— I pray you to do me the honor of presenting...
943Charles Carter Lee to James Madison, 9 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have been so fortunate as to obtain, to day, some letters & papers sent by my father from the West Indies, many years ago. The trunk which contained them, & all the letters, were opened before they fell into my hands; & I took the liberty of reading that which I now forward, as it was enclosed to my brother, unsealed. I despair of ever being able to find the wine it alludes to; but I assure...
944Benjamin Waterhouse to James Madison, 9 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
Considering you the head of the University in your State, I send for its Library a volume I have just published. But before you deposit it, I hope you will find time and inclination to examine this child of my old age, to see if it be fit to enter it. After long gestation it has been brought forth with pains and labour, which Junius says in his celebrated Letter to the King increases maternal...
945James Madison to Henry St. John Dixon, 7 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I received your letter of April 29th. It was my father whose name you observed among the Stockholders of the Loyall Company. Having myself paid no attention to the subject during his life, and taken no part in the business of the estate since his death, I know little of the concerns or partners of the company. I recollect that during my abode in Williamsburg between the years 1776 & 1779. a...
946Edward McDermott Roe to James Madison, 7 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I hope the cause and subject of this letter may excuse my intrusion on your retirement. It is written in the hope that you will not consider the subject or the writer unworthy of your admonishment where you believe it to be proper—In the spring of Eighteen Hundred and twenty five by the Providence of God , I by a personal act won an unrestricted freedom from the Roman. Catholic. Church. That...
947Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 6 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of 25th utl. covering an extract from Doctr. Dunglison’s letter to you of the 18th, & mentioning the receipt of a similar letter from Doctr. Patterson, came to hand a few days ago by the mail. I had just received similar letters from those gentlemen—from the former dated the 24th, & from the latter dated the 22d. These communications fill me with anxiety. I was quite unprepared for...
948James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 5 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday your favour of the 2d. with its accompaniments. I thank you for the little treatise on mental* Physiology, which I reserve for perusal at the earliest leisure. From the reputed talents & tenets of the Author, something may be anticipated well written & out of the trodden circle. I thank you also for the rectified copy of "Distress for rent," and return the one formerly sent...
949James Madison to Alden Bradford, 2 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. Sir, 3. days ago your letter of the 9th. from New Bedford. The former one of which it reminds me was recd at the due time. Why it had so long escaped my attention, I can not readily say. That the omission of an answer was not intentional, I am very sure. The apology I have to offer for it, in addition to my very advanced age, is that your communication found me in a bad state of...
950Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 2 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have, for some time, been intending to send you the enclosed; but, agreeably to my second nature—which has abundant opportunity to manifest itself—I have put off doing so, from day to day, and week to week. It is on a subject which early attracted your own attention, although you probably did not then foresee that it would ever be presented to the world in the naked-- purity , I think, in...