Personal letters : of James Monroe, 1800-1831, n.d.

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Personal letters : of James Monroe, 1800-1831, n.d.

Joseph Fenwick sends condolences on the death of a child, 1800; Benjamin Vaughan conveys good wishes to Monroe and his family, n.d.; John C. Calhoun accepts a dinner invitation, n.d.; Larkin Smith expresses admiration for Monroe and advises him not to resume his law practice, 1808; Peter Turnbull relates news of family business on Malta, 1810?; John Purviance sends news of England and friends, 1808; and Charles Blagden expresses his friendship, 1808. Monroe writes to James Madison that his health is improving, 1830; and that ill health will force him to remain in New York, regrets leaving Virginia and regrets not seeing Madison again, 1831.

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Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835

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Benjamin Vaughan lived through all the vicissitudes of an enlightened life during the age of revolution. Born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a merchant and planter, and Sarah Hallowell, a native Bostonian, Vaughan was raised in London and educated at Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn. At university, he fell in with the coterie of Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Franklin, Jeremy Bentham, and William Petty, the Earl of Shelburne, and imbibed many of their unorthodox, perhaps radical political, s...

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

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Fenwick, Joseph, 1762-1849

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Smith, Larkin I., 1944-1989

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Madison, James, 1751-1836

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James Madison (1751-1836) was the fourth president of the United States, born in Port Conway, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia legislature from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1786, and the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1783. His proposals at and management of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 earned him title "father of the U.S. Constitution." He cooperated with Alexander Hamilton and Jay in writing a series of papers (pub. 1787-88 under title of The Federalist) explaining the ne...

Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820

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Sir Charles Blagden (1748-1820), was a physician and secretary of the Royal Society. In 1772, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1776 he became a surgeon in the army and served on a hospital ship during the American Revolutionary War. In 1784 he was elected one of the secretaries of the Royal Society, a post he held till 1797. He died, unmarried and childless, of apoplexy in 1788. From the description of [Diaries], 1776-1788. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702177654 ...

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Purviance, John

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