James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John H. Smith, 27 June 1825

From John H. Smith

27th. June 1825.

Sir;

I take the liberty of sending you my proposals for publishing a Weekly Paper, in the City of Richmond.1

By returning to me this Paper, with your name subscrib’d (if you think proper to become a subscriber to it) you will confer a great favour. Be pleas’d to direct to Montpelier—Hanover County. I am, Sir, with the highest Respect Your’s &c.

J. H. Smith2

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.

1. The enclosed prospectus has not been found, but see the advertisement for a weekly newspaper, the Husbandman, in the Richmond Enquirer, 10 June 1825.

2. This may have been John Hill Smith (d. 1843), the son of Larkin Smith, former collector of Norfolk, Virginia, who married Mary Cary Ambler. Smith was a lawyer who initially practiced in Williamsburg. He represented King and Queen County in the Virginia General Assembly, 1806–9. He later moved to Lynchburg, where he lost his fortune and his practice. His father-in-law, Col. John Ambler, settled the Smith family at his plantation, The Cottage, in Hanover County, and then eventually in Richmond (du Bellet, Some Prominent Virginia Families [1976 reprint], 1:56; PJM-RS description begins David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (3 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2009–). description ends , 1:551 n. 4; Swem and Williams, Register description begins Earl G. Swem and John W. Williams, eds., A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776-1918, and of the Constitutional Conventions (Richmond, 1918). description ends , 429).

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    To James Madison from John H. Smith, 27 June 1825
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    Madison, James
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    “To James Madison from John H. Smith, 27 June 1825,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0561. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 544.]

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