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.