1To James Madison from Bushrod Washington, 31 January 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have postponed answering your favor of the 18th Ulto. until this time hoping that a more favorable change in the weather & the removal of a Cold which I have had for some time, would have permitted me without imprudence to go into an outhouse where my papers are kept and to select those you want. In both of these respects I have been disappointed, and as I must leave home in a day or two for...
2Detatched Memoranda, ca. 31 January 1820 (Madison Papers)
I did not become acquainted with Dr. Franklin till after his return from France and election to the Chief Magistracy of Pennsylvania. During the session of the Grand Convention, of which he was a member and as long after as he lived, I had opportunities of enjoying much of his conversation, which was always a feast to me. I never passed half an hour in his company without hearing some...
3James H. McCulloch to Thomas Jefferson, 31 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time of shipping your goods to Richmond , (goods from Marseilles ⅌ B g L Monroe ,) , I wrote to you as well as M r Gibson at that place, giving information of the business. As I have never heard since from him or yourself, it has occasioned some uneasy doubt respecting the safe passage of my letter to you, or of any which you may have written to me. Your often-experienced punctuality...