Correspondence of James Madison, 1801-1842.

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Correspondence of James Madison, 1801-1842.

The correspondence includes a letter, 1801 May 17, from James Monroe to Madison concerning James Thomson Callender, arrested under the Alien and Sedition laws, and his release by Thomas Jefferson; and a letter, 1818 December 23, from Monroe to Madison concerning the Convention of 1818 between Great Britain and the United States. Also included: 14 letters, 1801-1822, from John George Jackson, Richard Forrest and Thomas Ritchie to Madison regarding the Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807, and Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia; and 7 letters, 1811-1841, from David Bailie Warden, Sarah Coles Stevenson, George Tucker and Joseph Cabell to Dolley Madison. Also included: 3 letters, 1812, 1816 and n.d., from Dolley Madison to Mrs. Stevenson, Edward Coles, and John Payne Todd; 3 letters, 1815, from John Payne Todd to David Bailie Warden concerning garden seeds for Jefferson and other matters; and 2 letters, 1842, from Eli Hawley Canfield to W.S. Canfield and Zadlock H. Canfield. The second letter contains an attack on Jefferson.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849

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Dolley Madison, the fourth First Lady of the United States, is widely remembered as the most lively of the early First Ladies. As a prominent entertainer and hostess, she helped shape the role of First Lady and served as the model for every future First Lady to come. Dolley Payne was born on May 20, 1768, in Guilford County, North Carolina. She was the fourth of eight children born to John and Mary Payne. The family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1783. In 1790, Dolley Payne married la...

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

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James Monroe, fifth president of the United States of America (b. April 28, 1758, Monroe Hall, Virginia-d. July 4, 1831, New York, New York) fought with distinction in the Continental Army, and he practiced law in Fredericksburg, Virginia. As a young politician, he joined the anti-Federalists in the Virginia Convention which ratified the Constitution, and in 1790, an advocate of Jeffersonian policies, he was elected United States Senator. As Minister to France in 1794-1796, Monroe showed strong ...

Canfield, Zadock H.,

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Coles, Edward, 1786-1868

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Edward Coles was born on December 15, 1786 into one of the oldest Virginia families. When he inherited his family's estate in 1808, Coles felt somewhat conflicted about slavery. After serving as President James Madison's private secretary from 1809-1815, Coles purchased land in Illinois with the intention of eventually moving his estate west. In 1816 Madison sent Coles to Russia for diplomatic purposes, and Coles spent the next two years traveling in Europe. When he returned to the United States...

Stevenson, Sarah Coles, 1789-1848

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Wife of Andrew Stevenson, U.S. minister to England. From the description of Papers, 1836-1841. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188629 ...

Tucker, George, 1755-1861,

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Canfield, W. S.,

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Canfield, Eli Hawley

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Madison, James, 1751-1836

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Todd, John Payne, 1792-1858

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John Payne Todd was the son of Dolley Payne and her first husband, John Todd. After Todd's death, Dolley Payne married President James Madison, making John Payne Todd Madison's stepson. Todd had a weakness for gambling, and was unsuccessful in an assignment seeking Russia's help to end the War of 1812. After the death of President Madison, Dolley Madison was forced to sell Montpelier, the family plantation, to pay her son's debts. From the description of John Payne Todd correspondenc...

Jackson, John George, 1777-1825

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Forrest, Richard, d. 1828,

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Callender, James Thomson, 1758-1803

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James Thomson Callender (1758 – July 17, 1803) was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and later, also in the United States. His revelations concerning George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and later Thomas Jefferson, led to his marginalization politically. He wrote against the continuing influence of the British Crown, and he warned that Adams, Washington, and Hamilton planned to impose a titled aristocracy and hereditary positions in t...

Ritchie, Thomas, 1778-1854

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Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856

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Public official of Virginia and businessman. From the description of Joseph C. Cabell correspondence, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452442 Legislator from Virginia. From the description of Joseph C. Cabell papers on the founding of the University of Virginia, 1810-1857. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067601 Aided Jefferson in founding University of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Warminster, to Thomas Je...

Warden, David Bailie, 1772-1845

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American diplomat, author, and book-collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Noah Webster, 1829 Sept. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659525 Author, book collector, and diplomat. From the description of Papers of David Bailie Warden, 1800-1843. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455374 David Bailie Warden was a diplomat and teacher, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1809. From the descr...