1To James Madison from Lafayette, 27 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
I Hope Your Health, the Report on Which Has for Some time Given me inexpressible Anguish, is Now perfectly Restored, and that Mrs Madison and Your Excellent Mother are Well to Both of Whom I Beg You to present my most Affectionate Respects. A Very kind and Affecting Answer from Mrs Randolph, dated Boston, and Your Letter Novemb. 1826, Have informed me of the Situation of the family at the time...
2To James Madison from Lafayette, 28 August 1826 (Madison Papers)
Our Beloved Jefferson is No More, My dear friend, and While I Mingle My Sorrows With Yours, I Never More Sadly felt What Has Been to me a Constant object of Regret, the painful distance there is Betwen our Respective places of Abode. To You and me Who Have Been the Most intimate as Well as the oldest friends of the Great and Good Man, it particularly Belongs to Appreciate His personal as well...
3To James Madison from Lafayette, 22 July 1820 (Madison Papers)
I Have not Had for a Long time the pleasure to Hear from You, and Beg You not to Leave me in this painful privation of Your Correspondence. It Has been Lately my fate to be entangled in a Long, boisterous Session; where much has been Said in favour of liberty, but much Has been perpetrated against it. Yet upon the whole I do not know whether the talkers Have not Had the advantage of the doers....