1141James Madison to Alexander Macomb, 22 July 1834 (Madison Papers)
Professor Bonnycastle is desirous of obtaining your opinion on an improvement he has thought of in canals and on some points connected with our school of Civil engineering. Being a stranger to you he has asked from me a line of introduction I give it with pleasure as due to his personal merits as well as to his high scientific reputation. I offer no apology therefore for the liberty I take...
1142From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 21 June 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Albert Gallatin. 21 June 1806, Department of State. “I request you to be pleased to place in the Branch Bank at Boston two thousand dollars from the appropriations for Barbary Intercourse, to the credit of James L. Cathcart, who is to be charged with the same.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
1143From James Madison to John Wickham, 19 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 15th. instant. The affidavits, to which it refers, have not been filed in this Dept. nor is it recollected that any such have been transmitted to the Executive. Should they be hereafter recd. the copies which you request will be forwarded without delay. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
1144From James Madison to Congress, 5 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 January 1810. Transmits the director of the Mint’s annual report for 1809. RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 11A-E5). Each RC 1 p., in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Received by both houses on 10 Jan. Read and tabled by the Senate on 10 Jan. and by the House on 11 Jan. ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in...
1145From James Madison to John Dawson, ca. 5 May 1798 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 5 May 1798. Mentioned in JM to Jefferson, 5 May 1798 . Requests from Dawson a small balance—between $30 and $40—to be given to Jefferson.
1146From James Madison to John Dawson, 15 January 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 January 1794. Acknowledged in Dawson to JM, 23 Jan. 1794 . Mentions two causes of opposition to JM’s resolutions on commercial discrimination.
1147From James Madison to Anthony Charles Cazenove, 16 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 16 December 1811. Acknowledged in Cazenove to JM, 17 Dec. 1811 . Encloses a check for $385.55 to pay both the account of Murdoch, Yuille, Wardrop, & Company and that of Cazenove. Forwards a letter for Cathcart at Madeira.
1148From James Madison to Joseph Jones, 21 February 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 21 February 1792. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, 2 Mar. 1792 . Concerns the terms of the Presidential Succession Act of 1792.
1149From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 14 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Albert Gallatin. 14 May 1806, Department of State. “I have the honor to request that you will be pleased to cause two thousand dollars, from the Foreign Intercourse fund to be remitted to William Pinkney Esqr. at Baltimore, who is to be charged with the same, as Commissioner Extraordinary to Great Britain.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
1150From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 22 January 1782—Misdated (Madison Papers)
Letter misdated. 22 January 1782[3]. The manuscript of this document is now missing. A printed copy is in Madison, Papers (Gilpin ed.) Henry D. Gilpin, ed., The Papers of James Madison (3 vols.; Washington, 1840). , I, 111–12. Many years after writing the letter, JM selected at least a portion of it for inclusion in the earliest edition of his papers. Either JM misdated the letter a year too...
1151James Madison to William Allen, 27 June 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have just drawn a check on the Bank for $60. Having only fifty to my credit there I must request the favor of you to deposit the additional ten to with friendly respects please enquire for a box forwarded for Mrs. M. by the Steamboat & send it on— FC (DLC) .
1152James Madison to William F. Gray, 1 August 1831 (Madison Papers)
It is so long since I asked the favr. of you to let me know the balance I am in debt, that I suspect the letter may have miscarried. In renewing the request, I now add a further one, that you will be so good as to forward a Ream of letter paper of the former size and quality, by the first convenient opportunity With friendly respects FC (DLC) .
1153From James Madison to Albert Gallatin (Abstract), 23 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
23 May 1805, Department of State . “I have the honor to request, that you will be pleased to cause Seven thousand dollars, from the appropriations for foreign intercourse, to be remitted to Sir Francis Baring & Co. the Bankers of this Department in London.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. On 30 May 1805 JM asked Gallatin for similar warrants for $3,000 to be remitted to...
1154From James Madison to José Rafael Revenga, 11 November 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Monday, 11 November 1811. Invites Revenga to dine next Friday at 4 P.M. Requests a reply. Printed copy ( Cristóbal L. Mendoza, ed., Las primeras misiones diplomaticas de Venezuela [2 vols.; Caracas, 1962], 2:68). In Spanish. For an account of the dinner, see Manuel Pérez Vila, José Rafael Revenga (1786–1852) (Caracas, 1953), pp. 16–17.
1155From James Madison to Jacob Ridgway, 10 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Jacob Ridgway. 10 December 1805, Department of State. “I have received your letter of the 9th. September. It was the meaning of my letter to which it refers, not in any event to incur a further expence in detaining the Ship Mac, and that if the owner, or his representative would not reimburse the expence before incurred, to suffer him to take her without such reimbursement.” Letterbook...
1156From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 6 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to request that you cause a warrant to be issued in favor of Saml. H. Smith, payable out of the appropriations for printing the laws of the U: States, for one thousand dollars. The sd: Smith to be charged accordingly on the Books of the Treasury. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
1157From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of the treasury in response to House resolution of 18 Jan. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Received and tabled on 1 Feb. ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.; Washington, 1834-56). , 11th Cong., 2d sess., 1367). Printed in ASP American State Papers:...
1158From James Madison to P. H. Jones, [post–6 May 1823] (Madison Papers)
The enclosed note was recd. from Genl. Js. Taylor of Kentucky with a request that if not paid it might be conveyed to you. Col: Dade under the circumstances of the case, with respect to which he has written to Kentucky, does not chuse to take up the note. It is accordingly put under this cover. With respect. Draft ( DLC ). Undated; conjectural day and month assigned based on mention of this...
1159From James Madison to the Senate, 8 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Commissions having issued during the recess of the Senate to the following persons I now nominate them to the offices respectively annexed to their names. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM , listing forty-six appointments (printed in Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United...
1160From James Madison to Joseph Borden, 25 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 May 1804, Department of State. “Your letter of the 7th. inst. [not found] and the papers annexed to it have come to hand, and according to your request will be forwarded to Paris to Mr. Skipwith, Agent of claims there, to be by him laid before the Commissioners.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
1161From James Madison to Armand Duplantier, 26 May 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 May 1810. Acknowledged in Duplantier to JM, 21 July 1810 . Makes inquiries about the surveys of Lafayette’s Louisiana lands.
1162From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1793 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 29 April 1793, Orange. Acknowledged in Jefferson to JM, 13 May 1793 . In his list of letters to Jefferson (DLC: Rives Collection, Madison Papers), JM noted that this letter concerned “political sentiments of Va.” Received by Jefferson 8 May (Jefferson’s Epistolary Record [DLC: Jefferson Papers]).
1163James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
We are very sorry for the cause that detains you from the From the attendance you wished not to omit, but it is the request of us all that you consult your health as the first duty. With best wishes RC ( DLC : Nicholas P. Trist Papers).
1164From James Madison to Mahlon Dickerson, 15 February 1817 (Madison Papers)
Objects interesting to the United States requiring that the Senate should be in session on the 4th of March next, to receive such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive, your attendance in the Senate Chamber in this City on that day is accordingly requested. RC ( NjHi : Dickerson Papers). In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM . Mahlon Dickerson (1770–1853), a graduate of...
1165From James Madison to Henry Craig, 12 May 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 May 1801, Department of State. Encloses copies of documents in cases of Samuel Gawler and Daniel Clark, American citizens reportedly impressed by British naval officers at Martinique; orders Craig to “lose no time” in trying to obtain their release. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p. Enclosures not found. JM wrote Craig again on 16 June 1801 concerning seaman Samuel Culver...
1166From James Madison to Gabriel Moore, 10 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
J.M. presents his respects to Mr. Moore & incloses an answer to Mr. W. Price which he requested might be conveyed thro’ his Representative in Congs. Draft ( DLC ). Subjoined to JM to William Price, 10 Jan. 1828 .
1167From James Madison to Landon Carter, 7 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 23. Ult: and in obedience to its request, committed to the flames the paper delivered to my Custody, in Orange. The seal of it had never been broken. With my thanks for the Obliging sentiments you have been pleased to express, I remain, very respectfully Yr. Obedt. Servt. Catalog--Superior Galleries Auction.
1168From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 12 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 May 1801. Acknowledged in Pichon to JM, 17 May 1801 . Relays president’s directions concerning French ship La Sémillante at Norfolk. Returns commissions and conveys exequaturs from president.
1169From James Madison to Michael Gratz, 3 January 1781 (Madison Papers)
MS (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Recd. of Mr. Michael Gratz four thousand eight hundred and thirty seven continental dollars, being part of ten thousand dollars due on a draught in his favor by the Virginia delegates on the Auditors of that State, four thousand dollars having been received before. the remaining ballance eleven hundred sixty three. On 14 November 1780 ( Expense Account...
1170From James Madison to Richard Forrest, 9 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 9 August 1810. Acknowledged in Forrest to JM, 15 Aug. 1810 . Comments on Forrest’s offer to go to West Florida as an agent.