1231James Madison to Henry Colman, 1 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. M. with his respects to Mr. C. thanks him for the Copy of his "Hints addressed to the farmers of Essex." The Hints deserve attention every where; some of them particularly in this State, which though more & more exchanging its planting for a farming character, is not proportionally advanced in the rules of practice belonging to the latter Draft (DLC) .
1232James Madison to John G. Palfrey, 2 August 1831 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects to Professor Palfrey thanks him for the Copy of his Address on the 4th. of July. It well rewards the perusal, by the patriotic sentiments & judicious observations so well applied to the occasion. RC (MH) ; draft (DLC) .
1233From James Madison to James Monroe, 6 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
The documents herewith inclosed from No. 1 to No. 9 inclusive explain the hostile attack with the insulting pretext for it lately committed near the Capes of Virginia by the British ship of war the Leopard on the American Frigate the Chesapeake. No. 10 is a copy of the Proclamation issued by the President, interdicticting in consequence of that outrage, the use of our waters and every other...
1234From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 2 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
¶ To Jacob Wagner. Letter not found. 2 September 1805 . Mentioned in Wagner to Jefferson, 5 Sept. 1805, DLC : Jefferson Papers, as saying that JM had hoped Dolley was “considerably advanced to a cure, but that it was found unavoidable, in order to complete it, to resort to an expedient two days before, which retards the event a little.”
1235James Madison to Philip Pendleton Kennedy, 8 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Novr 22 came in due time. The pamphlet to which it refers was not received till the 5th instant. The more the doctrine under the name of "Nullification" is examined, the more it is found irreconciliable with the moral obligation involved in political compacts, the test to which the pamphlet justly and impressively brings the doctrine, as applied to the Constitutional compact of...
1236From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 1 September 1794, Orange. Mentioned in JM to Jefferson, 5 Oct. 1794 . Discusses deer for stocking Jefferson’s park at Monticello. Received by Jefferson 18 Sept. (Jefferson’s Epistolary Record [DLC: Jefferson Papers]).
1237From James Madison to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 20 May 1815 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Benjamin W. Crowninshield. Letter not found. 20 May 1815. Extract printed in Stan. V Henkels Catalogue No. 1379 (1925), item 4.
1238From James Madison to Alexander Saunders, 15 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 October 1804, Department of State. “Your letter [not found] & papers respecting the detention of the Sloop Narcissa in the Island of Cuba, have been received. It would appear necessary for you, considering the situation of the process depending respecting them, to transmit documents of a nature to clear up the doubts in which the detention originated to some correspondent in that Island,...
1239From James Madison to James Monroe, 26 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have recd I believe all your letters public and private down to that of October 22, written merely to say that all continued well. I have taken due care of the communications on the subject of your . Every thing seems to be well understood on this side the water. I can not say more now as I write of necessity without cypher. Mr. Merry has been with us some time. He appears to be an amiable...
1240From James Madison to John Randall, 4 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Should H. B. M’s. Ship of the Statira, in which an Envoy Extraordinary, to the United States, has arrived, proceed into your district, you are hereby instructed to consider her as within the exception made by the President’s Proclamation of July last; and to admit her to whatever privileges and hospitalities would have been allowable previous to that Proclamation. You will consider her as...