3971From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe, 18 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
The reasonable and friendly views with which you have been instructed by the President to enter into negociations with the French Government justify him in expecting from them an issue favorable to the tranquillity and to the useful relations between the two Countries. It is not forgotten however that these views, instead of being reciprocal, may find, on the part of France, a temper adverse...
3972Virginia Delegates in Congress to William Livingston, 21 December 1780 (Madison Papers)
RC (New York Public Library). The text of this letter is in Madison’s hand. The letter and its address sheet have become separated—the former is in the Emmet Collection and the latter among the papers of William Livingston. We received this morning a letter subscribed by Peter Thornton informing us that he is the son of a gentleman in Virginia, that he lately made his escape from N. York and...
3973From James Madison to Thomas Lloyd, 1 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 January 1813. “J. Madison will see Mr. Lloyd as he requests tomorrow morning at 10. OC.” RC ( PPACHi : Thomas Lloyd Papers). 1 p. Dated “Jany. 1.”; year assigned on the basis of evidence presented in n. 1. Thomas Lloyd (1756–1827), a Federalist sympathizer and skilled stenographer, had edited the Pennsylvania ratification debates on the Constitution published in 1788 and had reported the...
3974From James Madison to J. F. Daniel Lobstein, 28 October 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 19th. inclosing a specification of the contents of a work you are about to publish. The topics you have selected will afford ample scope for information and observations on the State of this Country. An eye which is aquainted with Europe will be best able to mark such features of America, as will present a comparative view doing justice to one without injustice...
3975From James Madison to George Logan, 19 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favour of the 10th. Your anxiety that our country may be kept out of the vortex of war, is honourable to your judgment as a patriot, and to your feeling as a man. The same anxiety is, I sincerely believe, felt by the great body of the nation, & by its public councils; most assuredly by the Executive Branch of them. But the question may be decided for us, by actual...
3976From James Madison to William Logan, 12 August 1819 (Madison Papers)
I have received under your cover of the 28. Ult: the copy of Mr. Condy’s oration delivered before the ’76 Association on the last anniversary of American Independence; and I beg that the Association may be assured of the pleasure with which I accept this further specimen of the talents selected, for commemorating that event, & cherishg the spirit which produced it. I tender you Sir, my...
3977From James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 23 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a communication from President Cooper of the S. Carolina College. I have apprized him of the enactment in our University Code, as applicable to the occurence he describes, and to which the Faculty wd. doubtless conform, with a just sense of the Obligation every where to discountenance so pernicious an example. With great esteem Draft ( DLC ). Addressed by JM to Lomax, “Chairm⟨an⟩ of...
3978James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 30 January 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd last evening your letter of the 25th. and sincerely regret both on acct. of the University & the public the final determination which will separate you from the former. The regret will I am sure be equally felt by my Colleagues. I hope it can be alleviated by the advantages ensuing to yourself. On the subject of your continuance in the professorship, untill the end of the Session, with...
3979James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 10 November 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. yours dated 8th. post mark 6th Being absent at the last meeting of the Visitors, I am ignorant of the particular view they had on the order to which you refer Your Statement seems to shew that a deviation from the letter of it, whilst an accomodation to yourself & others, would not be objectionable in any quarter. I forward your letter however to Genl. Cocke my Extive....
3980From James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 10 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 5th. instant. Considering the Law publications you point out as very proper for the Library of the University & that they can be procured out of a part of the appropriation, not needed for the periodicals, I join Genl. Cocke in his opinion on the subject; with a reliance however on the retrospective sanction of the Visitors if deemed necessary, as much as on the claim...
3981From James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 10 September 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 6th. on the non-descript case of Mr. Egan & his associate. If thei[r] attendance on Lectures be not in the character of Students of the University, or Students of a religious School within or adjoining its precincts, no provision of the enactments can be applicable to it, and the peculiarity of the case seems to take it out of the reason of the rule on the subject of...
3982James Madison to James B. Longacre, 27 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 21 inst I am aware of the wish you naturally feel for such a biographical sketch of me as will preserve a uniformity in your Gallery; and I am glad that you are sensible of the controul I may feel in supplying materials for it. A friend will attempt a brief chronicle of my career, with perhaps a few remarks & references, and will forward the paper when...
3983From James Madison to George Long, [Post–26 December 1824] (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To George Long. Letters not found. Post - 26 December 1824. Mentioned by Long in his letter to Henry Tutwiler, 30 May 1875, published in Thomas Fitzhugh, ed., Letters of George Long (Charlottesville, Va., 1917), 24–25: “Soon after my arrival in Virginia, and it was either in December 1824 or in January 1825, I received a letter from Mr. Madison, whom I had not then seen. He asked me if I...
3984From James Madison to George Long, 4 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Monday last came to hand yesterday, and the same mail brought me the letter from Mr Brougham, bearing date Ocr. 20th. He refers to the choice made of you for the Greek professorship in the London University; and to the 1st. of October as the time when its duties would require you to be there; and communicates the anxiety felt for a release from your engagements here upon the...
3985James Madison to George Long, 30 March 1830 (Madison Papers)
This will be handed to you by the Revd. Mr. Smith of the Episcopal Church in Virginia, who crosses the Atlantic for the improvement of his health. The character you left with us makes him wish to be made known to you during his short stay in England, and I am justified by the respect due to his personal & pastoral virtues, in presenting him to you as entirely worthy of your friendly...
3986From James Madison to George Long, 8 September 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 31. was duly recd. by the Mail preceding the last. Altho’ it ought not to produce surprize, that you should, on the expiration of your engagement here, prefer a residence in your native Country, I am very sure that I express a regret common to the Visitors that the University should lose a professor, whose qualifications, can scarcely be hoped for in a Successor whether...
3987James Madison to George Long, 8 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your obliging letter of Decr—came duly to hand. Having heard nothing since either from you or from Mr. Barbour, I infer that our field of choice for the vacant Chair in our University will be limited to our own Country: In this event, your favorable estimate of Mr. Harrison’s qualifications will doubtless be a weight in his scale, when compared with the pretensions of others. Of the standing...
3988From James Madison to George Long, 3 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
My communication with the other Visitors on the subject of your several letters necessarily retarded by their scattered & distant situations was unfortunately still further delayed, by four of their letters having entered mail for Montpr. in Vermont. I am at length authorized to confirm my anticipation of the regret of the prospect of losing your valuable services in the University; and their...
3989From James Madison to Louis Lambert & Company (Abstract), 9 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
9 May 1805, Department of State . “I have received your letter of yesterday [not found] and have to inform you, in answer, that Mr: Wm: Lyman the successor of Mr. Erving in the Agency at London, will of course superintend your appeal, on application; but as he is neither to expend monies nor make pecuniary engagements on accot: of the public, it is necessary that you should make provision for...
3990From James Madison to James Lovell, 20 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 20 March 1805 . Described in Lovell to JM, 29 Mar. 1805 , as dealing with financial matters.
3991James Madison to John E. Lovell, 31 March 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 22d. It was a little delayed by being addressed to Charlottesvill instead of the P. Office near me. There must be some mistake in the circumstances refering to a conversation with Mr Colton. I have no recollections that coincide with them. Notwithstanding the qualifications and accomplishments of Mr. Cardella I can authorize no expectation that he would find an...
3992From James Madison to William Lowndes, 16 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
The resignation of the Treasury, by Mr. Dallas, drawing after it a vacancy in the War Department, now to be filled, I am desirous of availing our Country of your talents & services in the latter. With a hope of obtaining your assent, I addressed a letter to you, which, from the course of your journey can not have reached you; and as soon as I ascertained that you had arrived in Washington, I...
3993From James Madison to William Lowndes, 3 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Dallas being on the point of retiring from the Treasury Dept. and the event drawing after it a vacancy in the Dept. of War, will you permit me to avail our Country of your services in the latter? It will be convenient to know your determination as soon as you have formed it; and it will afford me great pleasure if it accede to my request. Accept Sir assurances of my great esteem and of my...
3994From James Madison to Nicholas Low, 13 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of yours to me, of the 6th. inst. I send you herewith a letter for Mr. Pinckney and one for Mr. Jarvis. The last is nearly a copy of the first, which goes to you under a flying seal. You will see by that, that you are relied upon for a full Communication to these Gentlemen of the business recommended to their care by these Letters. I request you [to] forward the other letter for...
3995From James Madison to John B. C. Lucas (Abstract), 22 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
C. Lucas. 22 March 1805, Department of State . “The President of the United States being desirous of availing the public of your Services as a Judge of the Territory of Louisiana, I have the p<leasure> t<o> inclose your Commission.” RC ( MoSHi ); letterbook copy of enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, Temporary Presidential Commissions). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosure, see n. 1....
3996Hobohoilthle to John Roger Nelson Luckett, 24 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
… I am now speaking to the President you have appointed an officer to act in your business I am not vexed but I am speaking plain, I am the President of this nation of people and so I give an Answer to it. I call myself Muscogee A nation of people, I am so, I wish to be friendly I am a native master of this country and I wish to be good neighbours, you are too gready after my land, I am...
3997From James Madison to George Luckey, ca. 15 July 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 15 July 1809. Acknowledged in Luckey to JM, 10 Aug. 1809 . Comments on Luckey’s views on dueling.
3998From James Madison to Benjamin Ludlow, 25 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the address from “The Convention of Republican Delegates from the several counties of the State of New Jersey,” explaining the sentiments entertained at this crisis, by that portion of my Constituents. The sentiments are worthy the character of Citizens, who know the value of the national rights at stake in the present contest; and who are willing to do justice to the sincere &...
3999From James Madison to James B. Sheys and Peter Ludlow Jr., 22 February 1819 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 11th. inst. The unbiassed history you have in view, of the Seminole war & the events growing out of it, is an undertaking of much interest, and I wish you a success which may be satisfactory to yourselves, and to the public. It is not in my power, however to make the contributions which you request. Waving every other obstacle, my time has other appropriations...
4000From James Madison to William Lyman, 26 August 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To William Lyman. 26 August 1806, Department of State. “Mr. T. Martin of Portsmouth (N.H.) has exhibited documents, which indicate that his Ship James & William, together with her Cargo, was captured within the jurisdictional limits of the United States and condemned nevertheless at Bermuda. Mr. Martin having interposed an appeal for the intervention of the government to enable him to insist...