331From James Madison to Thomas B. Parker, 24 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of Jany. 18. & thank you for the 2 papers containing very interesting parts of the debates & proceedings of your Convention. I am very sensible Sir of what I owe to the respect & confidence marked by your request of my opinions on 2 great points in the articles of amendment proposed to the State Constitution. But I must appeal to the same friendly dispositions for an...
332From James Madison to Lynde Walter and Others, 24 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter of the 15th. instant; and I cannot be insensible to the marks of respect & confidence contained in it. But besides that it attaches a very undue weight to my opinion on the subject of a Bankrupt act, I am not sure that the interference you suggest would be received in the light you anticipate. Candor requires also an acknowlegement, that though sincerely anxious...
333From James Madison to Reynolds Chapman, 25 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yours of the 16th. some days ago. Particular engagements have prevented an earlier answer. Different plans for reading history have been recommended. What occurs as most simple & suitable, where the object is such as you point out, is to begin with some abridgement of Genl. History. I am not sure that I am acquainted with the best; late ones having been published wch. I have not seen....
334From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 29 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Mr. Wheaton, with thanks for the copy of his “Anniversary Discourse,” which is well calculated to attract attention to a subject deeply interesting to the U.S. by the views under which it is presented, and the lights thrown on it by his valuable researches & investigations. RC ( NNPM ). Henry Wheaton (1785–1848) was a graduate of the College of Rhode Island...
335Call for Meeting of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 30 January–13 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
We the subscribers, visitors of the University of Virginia being of opinion that it will be to the interest of that institution to have an occasional meeting of the visitors , by special call, on the 1 st day of April next , do therefore appoint that day for such meeting, and request the attendance of the sd Visitors accordingly; personal notice being to be given to them respectively one week...
336From James Madison to Peter Stephen Chazotte, 30 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
I have recd & thank you for your little tract on the culture of vines Olives &c. Its practical views of the several articles derived from long personal experience, with the apparent aptitude for them of soils & climates in a certain portion of the U. States justly claim the attention of those particularly living within its limits. Experiments for introducing these valuable productions are...
337From James Madison to Robert H. Rose, 10 February 1821 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of Jany. 21. with a Copy of your address to the Agricultl. Socy. of Susquehanna County, for which I return my thanks. I offer but a just tribute to the Address, in saying that it contains very judicious observations presented in the best form, & apparently very appropriate to the rural circumstances of the new County. The multiplication of these Societies is among the...
338From James Madison to Thomas Todd, 11 February 1821 (Madison Papers)
We learn by a letter from Mrs. Cutts with much pleasure that you had ended your journey to Washington in good health; and we flatter ourselves that you will give us the opportunity of being eye witnesses to its continuance, on your return to Frankfort. I need not say how truly glad we shall be to see you; how much we shall expect it; and what a disappointment we shall feel, if you should take...
339From James Madison to an Unidentified Correspondent, 11 February 1821 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To an Unidentified Correspondent. Letter not found. 11 February 1821 . Described as a two-page autograph letter, signed, from Montpelier, in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 1425 (14 Feb. 1929), item 41.
340From James Madison to Henry Baldwin, ca. 13 February 1821 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Henry Baldwin. Letter not found. Ca. 13 February 1821 . Printed facsimile of RC cover sheet, addressed and franked by JM; postmarked 13 Feb. 1821 at Orange Court House. Offered for sale in Robert F. Batchelder Catalog 64 [1988], item 32. Henry Baldwin (1780–1844), a Connecticut-born, Yale-educated, Pittsburgh lawyer, was half-brother to Abraham Baldwin and Ruth Baldwin Barlow. Baldwin...