98731To James Madison from Benjamin Silliman, 9 June 1820 (Madison Papers)
I learned with some mortification that my printed circular relative to the Journal of Science had been forwarded to you—which was contrary to my intentions. I beg leave however to return my thanks for your very handsome treatment of the subject & to acknowledge the receipt of the 5$ enclosure. I hope you will not think me presuming if I take the liberty of forwarding the 1st. No of Vol 2...
98732To James Madison from James Simpson, 26 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
With this I beg leave to enclose you copy of 42, and am extremely sorry to add the intelligence of my having been compelled by the Governour of Tangier to retire from thence on thursday Evening, in consequence of positive orders from His Imperial Majesty to that effect, received on the evening of the 22d, accompanied with advice of his having declared War against the United States. Agreeably...
98733From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing remarkeable this week. What was mentioned in my last respecting Bache’s paper was on misinformation, there having been no proposition there. Yours of the 24th. from Alexandria is received. I inclose you the rough draught of a letter I wrote on a particular subject on which the person to whom it is addressed desired me to make a statement according to my view of it. He told me his...
98734To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 19 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I reached this place yesterday, after a pleasant journey from Washington, and had the pleasure to find here your respected favor of the 11th inst. It affords me much satisfaction to know the Presidents determination respecting an out-fit, as it will avoid many difficulties wh. might arise from charges not specifically allowed. It will be equally convenient for me to draw my salary from the...
98735Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 28 November] 1810 (Madison Papers)
President’s message Might not the introduction, including the statement of French proceedings have a stronger colour of congratulation if not exultation of the change since last session 1. by marking more pointedly the effect produced by the last law —2. by hinting that the embarrassment heretofore experienced in deciding on proper measures was principally owing to the pressure from both...
98736To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
I believe I omitted in my last to mention to You that I only have drawn for three thousand Dollars of my Outfit & drawn on You & that I wish to recieve the remainder in Europe—& that I will thank You to Write to Messieurs Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard to pay it to my drafts there . There seeming to have been an Omission of a Word or two in your Letter to those Gentlemen will make this...
98737To James Madison from Cowles Meade, 10 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
When I sent on my accounts for disbursements made about the expedition against Aaron Burr, I charged the department of War for the Horse which I purchased for the use of Mr Chew. It seems that I made a charge against an improper office. I was instructed by the accountant to exhibit the same against the department of which you have superintendence. Accordingly I enclose the same voucher, which...
98738To James Madison from George W. Erving, 13 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George W Erving. 13 September 1806, Madrid. No. 14. “In my letter No. 10. (August 9th.) I had the honor to submit to you the steps which I had taken with respect to the cargoes of three American Vessels lately condemned at Algeciras, & to transmit copies of my note to Mr. Cevallos (August 3rd.) & of his answer (August 6th.). The inclosed is a copy of what I wrote to him September 2nd....
98739To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 3 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
J’ai reçu du Ministre des relations extérieures l’instruction de présenter au Gouvernement des Etats Unis, une réclamation des héritiers de feu Mr. Gerard, ministre plénipotentiaire de France aux Etats Unis. Cette réclamation est fondée Sur une concession de terre qui fut faite, au dit Ministre en 1779, par une compagnie ditte de Wabash et des Illinois, dans une vaste étendue de territoire que...
98740Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 19 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your favor of the 9 th and to thank you for the political information it contained. reading the newspapers but little & that little but as the romance of the day, a word of truth now & then comes like the drop of water on the tongue of Dives . if the British ministry are changing their policy towards us, it is because their nation, or rather the city of London which is the...
98741To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to write you a hasty line at day light yesterday morning. Suffer me to obtrude upon you a few personal and public considerations. I sincerely believe that a considerable portion of our present difficulties have arisen from the injuries to the operations & system of supply, which have grown out of the measures since the spring of 1809 upon the subject of its organization. I am...
98742From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 11 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The reciept of the inclosed letter did not give me more pleasure than I feel in communicating it to you. it dispelled the gloom which that from Edinbg had produced and gives me hopes that all will end well. with a good Professor of mod. lang. assured, a good one of ant t languages in view, a prime Mathematician engaged we want really nothing essential but an able Nat. Phil. and that he cannot...
98743To James Madison from Edmund Edrington, 14 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
I received your Excellencies letter of the 8th. Inst. and thank you for the promptitude with which you favoured me with an answer, as it has saved me from expectations which I might have hoped would be fulfilled. I should not again obtrude myself upon your engagements but to make this acknowledgment; notwithstanding as my pen is in my hand and it appears not mal a propos I will relate an...
98744To James Madison from William Duane, 14 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
The agents of the sometime Spanish ambassador Yrujo for what end I cannot penetrate, have Suddenly displayed an unusual eagerness to push two prosecutions against me in Yrujo’s name. One on account of the discourse which he held with Melimeli , and which Dr. Davis who is now in Barbary repo rted and resented. The other on account of Yrujo’s connexion with Burr . It was only yesterday I had...
98745To James Madison from John Lamson, 4 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 April 1803, Trieste. Informs JM that his consular functions ceased on 31 Mar. 1803 by a government decree in favor of William Riggin. In a 22 May 1802 letter , Lamson sent JM a report of all American ships that had entered Trieste to that date. Encloses a list of those entering between then and 31 Mar. 1803 [not found]. The brig Two Betsys of Baltimore was driven ashore and sank on 12 Jan....
98746To James Madison from William Shepherd, 7 April 1821 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ From William Shepherd. Letter not found. 7 April 1821 . Referred to in JM to James Francis Madison Shepherd, 8 Dec. [1825] ( DLC ), where JM quotes from William Shepherd’s letter: “A family of the negroes that belonged to my brothers Estate have been taken back for the benefit of Betsy Shepherd: if you think proper to subscribe $500 towards paying for them, it will be thankfully recd. The...
98747To James Madison from Lyman Spalding, 13 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 April 1810, Portsmouth. Encloses the Portsmouth bill of mortality for 1809. RC ( DLC ); enclosure ( DLC : Madison Collection, Rare Book Division). RC 1 p. Enclosure is Spalding’s Bill of Mortality, for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for A.D. 1809 (n.p., [1810]; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801-1819 (22 vols. to...
98748To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 7 September 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 September 1803 , “ Near Natchez .” Has reason to believe “that much of the vacant Land in Louisiana, will be covered by fraudulent grants” before the U.S. takes possession. Don Joseph Vidal, commander of the Spanish post across the river from Natchez, “manifests great solicitude” that his friends in the Mississippi Territory “should possess themselves of Lands in his vicinity .” Has learned...
98749To James Madison from Thomas McKean Thompson, 26 January 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 January 1802, Secretary’s Office at Lancaster. Encloses by direction of the governor a copy of a Pennsylvania General Assembly resolution. Asks JM “to cause to be transmitted to this place the document therein alluded to; the fee for which shall be remitted.” FC ( PHarH : Governor’s Papers). 1 p. Thompson, Gov. Thomas McKean’s nephew, was secretary of the commonwealth from 1801 to 1809...
98750To James Madison from Thomas Toole, 2 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
Feeling sensibly for the premature and unexpected destruction of the Capitol, as well as your personal Loss, and distress of mind, Occasioned by the Enemy I therefore beg your Excellency will permit me as an humble Irishman to address You for the purpose of Suggesting a matter of great Inportance for the defence of this City as well as for the use of the army in general, Viz, To raise two or...
98751To James Madison from Frederick Degen, 3 June 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Frederick Degen. 3 June 1806, Naples. “I have the honor to acquaint your Excellency that mr. John Mathieu has resigned to me and delivered me the Seals of the consular office of the United States of america, for reasons Stated in his Letter directed to you, which I take the liberty to inclose you herewith. “I immediately gave notice of this arrangement to The Prime minister of His...
98752To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
Your’s of the 4th. came to hand last night & I now return you the letters of Livingston, Bourne, Lee, Lynch, Villandry & mr. King. Stewart’s is retained for communication with the P. M. Genl. I send also for your perusal the letter of a mr. Farquhar of Malta. Mr. Livingston’s letters (two short ones excepted) being all press-copies & very bad ones, I can make nothing distinct of them. When...
98753To James Madison from Charles Collins and David A. Leonard, 18 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 November 1812, Bristol. Recollect that when Cushing’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court was vacant, Asher Robbins of Newport was “held up as a suitable Candidate by the lawyers & several others, whose motives, in our view, were not worthy an object so important.” Thought at that time that it was their duty to “express to the Executive our thoughts upon the subject.” Distrusted Robbins because...
98754To James Madison from Richard Taylor, 1 June 1798 (Madison Papers)
I have waited with a great deal of patience in expectation of some step beeing taken for conveying to me the Land I Bought of your Brother & Self & as to myself I [am] no ways uneasy but haveing Disposed a part the parties who have purchased are very restless and some of them will not pay the purchase money till they gett a Title therefore hope you will take the Necessery stepts taken to gett...
98755To James Madison from Horace C. Story, 8 April 1822 (Madison Papers)
Lieut. Story of the U.S. Corps of Engineers presents his most respectful compliments to the Hon. Mr. Madison, & transmits from this place the accompanying pamphlet intrusted to his charge by the Salem East India Marine Society. He regrets that no more appropriate mode of forwarding it to its place of destination is within his power. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. Horace Cullen Story (1792–1823),...
98756To James Madison from John Drayton, 27 July 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 July 1810, Charleston. Sends JM a British cannonball and shot taken from the old palmetto battery at Fort Moultrie and encloses a letter on the subject. RC and enclosure ( DLC ). RC 3 pp. Enclosure (1 p.) is Richard Bohun Baker to Drayton, 20 July 1810.
98757William R. Griffith to James Madison, 25 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I herewith hand you a list of lands in which I presume yourself & relations have an Interest—the tract of 500 acres & 200 acres, and an additional tract of 200 acres which I got from the office in Richmond, all lie on Cloves Creek and in reach of your agent Mr Lee—the settlers resideing on those lands pretend to hold them by virtue of tax sales, which are doubtless illegal—I have looked in the...
98758To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 20 August 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 August 1801, Treasury Department. Encloses copy of letter from collector at Boston in response to inquiries made at JM’s request concerning French armed schooner Beguine . RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). RC 1 p. Enclosures (3 pp.) are copies of Benjamin Lincoln to Gallatin, 12 Aug. 1801, and appended lists (see n. 1). RC and first enclosure reproduced in Papers of Gallatin (microfilm...
98759To James Madison from Charles Fierer, 26 January 1794 (Madison Papers)
The many civilities I have received from you, Sir, on a former occasion, induces me to solicit your patronage to a petition which the Honble. Richard B. Lee will lay before the Honble. House of which you are a member. I will not take up your time with a detail of the particulars of my case, as the petition and the vouchers attending the same will explain my situation. I will only observe, that...
98760To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 9 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Madison Papers). Addressed by Ambler to “The Hono. James Madison of Congress. Philadelphia.” Docketed by JM, “Novr. 9. 1782.” I have but a moment to inclose you Mr. Ross’s Bill for £190. which makes the whole £500. forwarded. I wish I could give you a hope of a further remittance soon but there is little probability of it. I must beg yr. excuse for being so short for I am surrounded...