1From James Madison to Joel Barlow, 30 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Joel Barlow. 30 April 1806, Department of State. “Mr. Madison’s compliments to Mr. Barlow. The Treasury is the proper Department to decide on his claim for exemption from duties; but it would seem from the letter to Mr. Pinckney of which a copy is enclosed, that there is scarcely any room to hope for a decision in Mr. B.’s favor, further than a liberal construction of the words of the...
2From James Madison to Joel Barlow, 17 November 1811 (Madison Papers)
You will receive by this conveyance the proper communications from the Dept. of State. You will see in them, the ground now avowed for the B. Orders in Council. It must render them co-durable with the war; for nothing but a termination of it will re-open the continental market to British products. Nor is it probable that peace will do it in its former extent. The pretension which requires the...
3From James Madison to Joel Barlow, 24 February 1812 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Morris delivered yesterday morning the dispatches committed to him, including your letters to me. The reasons for hastening the departure of the vessel now ordered to France, will not permit the Secy. of State to do much more than acknowledge the receipt of your communications. The instructions you wish relative to the question of a Commercial Treaty with F. at this time, as well as the...
4From James Madison to Joel Barlow, 11 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
As I write on short notice and in cypher, I must be very brief. The conduct of the F. Govt. explained in yours of May. 12. on the subject of the decre⟨e⟩ of April ⟨18⟩11 will be an everlasting reproach to it . It is the more shameful as, departing from the declar⟨a⟩tion to general armstrong of which the enforcement of the non importation was the effect the revoking decre⟨e⟩ assumes this as the...
5From Jesse Atwater to Joel Barlow, 11 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I am out of health and am advised to take a sea voyage. Capt. Lee informs me that Govt. will send dispatches to France and England probably every few weeks in the approaching summer. If I could be imployed as the bearer of dispatches and thereby avoid expence and regain my health I should be very thankful. You are sensible that republicans have every difficulty to encounter here, and no member...
6From James Madison to Joel Barlow, 7 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your favor of and valuing as I do the friendly & favorable expressions it contains, I can not but be truly gratified by them. I perceive that I did not impress Mr. Fulton as distinctly as I meant to do with the circumstance, that previous to the receipt of his letter, I had, as far as might lie with me, not only fixed, in my thoughts, on a person for the approaching vacancy in the...