James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1819
From James Madison
Montpellier Feby 12. 1819
Dear Sir
I have not been able to learn a tittle of your health since I saw you.1 It has, I hope, been entirely re-established; I congratulate you on the success of the Report to the Legislature on the subject of the University. It does not yet appear what steps have been taken by the Governor towards giving effect to the law.
Will you be so good as to have the inclosed forwarded when convenient to Mr Minor. I leave it open that you may peruse the printed Memoir, which the author, T. Coxe, wishes you may have an opportunity of doing. It is short and contains facts & remarks which will pay for the trouble. He refers me also to an article from his pen in the Amn Edit: of Rees’ Cyclopedia, under the head “United States,” which I believe he would be gratified by your looking into. I have not seen it; but understand that it contains not only other remarks on the subject of the Memoir; under the sectional head “Agriculture”; but a review of the most important transactions—quorum partes fuimus.
The President intimates to me that there is a prospect of an early & satisfactory close to the negociations with Spain; promoted he doubts not by the course of events of late date and the account to which they have been turned.
James Madison
RC (DLC: Madison Papers); at foot of text: “Mr Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 15 Feb. 1819 and so recorded in SJL; with note by TJ beneath signature relating to his 19 Feb. 1819 reply: “health College printed paper to Minor Spain meeting.” Enclosure: Tench Coxe, An Addition, of December 1818, to the Memoir, of February and August 1817, on the subject of the cotton culture, the cotton commerce, and the cotton manufacture of the United States ([Philadelphia?], 1818).
quorum partes fuimus: “of which we were a part.”
1. Word interlined, with superfluous period editorially omitted.
Index Entries
- agriculture; books on search
- An act for the establishment of an University (1819) search
- An Addition, of December 1818, to the Memoir, of February and August 1817, on the subject of the cotton culture, the cotton commerce, and the cotton manufacture of the United States (T. Coxe) search
- books; encyclopedias search
- books; on agriculture search
- cotton; books on search
- Coxe, Tench; An Addition, of December 1818, to the Memoir, of February and August 1817, on the subject of the cotton culture, the cotton commerce, and the cotton manufacture of the United States search
- Coxe, Tench; articles by in A. Rees’sCyclopædia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books and Library; works sent to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; illness of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Bill to Establish a University search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Rockfish Gap Report of the University of Virginia Commissioners search
- Madison, James (1751–1836); and J. Monroe search
- Madison, James (1751–1836); and TJ’s health search
- Madison, James (1751–1836); letters from search
- Madison, James (1751–1836); sends books to TJ search
- Minor, Peter; works sent to search
- Monroe, James; and U.S. foreign relations search
- Preston, James Patton; and University of Virginia search
- Rees, Abraham; The Cyclopædia search
- Spain; and U.S. search
- The Cyclopædia (A. Rees) search
- United States; and Spain search
- Virginia, University of; Establishment; Bill to Establish a University search
- Virginia, University of; Establishment; commissioners’ report search
- Virginia; General Assembly search