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Title: Madison, James to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 1828 August 21; No. 869 James Madison to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
Identifier(s): text:353758
Description: Introduces Mr. Borowski.; Bound in Sparks, Life of Washington, vol. 6.
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al
Subject: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Date: 1828-08-21; 2023

Title: Madison, James to James Kirke Paulding, 1831 April; No. 871 James Madison to James Kirke Paulding
Identifier(s): text:353730
Description: Mentions the problems of writing biography and the deficiencies of oral tradition and comments briefly on [George] Washington, [Benjamin] Franklin, [Thomas] Jefferson, and John Adams and more extensively on [Alexander] Hamilton for Paulding's proposed "Biographical undertaking."
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al
Subject: Biography; Oral history; Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860; Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date: 1831-04; 2023

Title: Madison, James to Dr. Thomas Cooper, 1826 December 26; No. 867 James Madison to Dr. Thomas Cooper
Identifier(s): text:353710
Description: Acknowledges receipt of copies of Cooper's lectures on political economy and also his lectures on civil government and on the United States Constitution and clarifies the use of the word "national" as distinguished from the word "federal" in the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention; discusses the size and productivity of ancient Roman farms.
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al
Subject: Constitutional conventions; Agriculture, Ancient--Rome
Date: 1826-12-26; 2023

Title: Madison, James to Archibald Stuart, 1787 November 25; No. 872 James Madison to Archibald Stuart
Identifier(s): text:353760
Description: Informs him that Madison has no news about the Pennsylvania [constitutional] convention and also that the returns of the election in Connecticut reportedly "reduce the adoption of the Constitution in that State, to certainty"; mentions that "We have no Congress yet."
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al
Subject: Constitutional conventions
Date: 1787-11-25; 2023

Title: Madison, James to Thomas Jefferson, 1787 March 18; No. 868 James Madison to Thomas Jefferson
Identifier(s): text:353728
Description: Encloses pecan nuts that he requested and informs him that Madison will try to obtain sugar maple seeds; complains about "the tediousness of writing in Cypher."
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al
Subject: Pecan; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date: 1787-03-18; 2023

Title: 17. Vocabulary of the Delaware Indians
Identifier(s): text:159518
Description: Submitted on Jefferson's printed vocabulary form. Recorded from unnamed Lenape speakers at Edgpiiluk, New Jersey. Donated by Thomas Jefferson in 1817.
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al; Unidentifiedet al
Subject: Delaware language
Date: December 1792

Title: Meteorological observations, 1798-1802
Identifier(s): text:319010
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al; Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849et al
Subject: Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Citizen Science; Climatology; Birds -- Migration -- United States.; Natural history; Science and technology; Agriculture
Date: 1836-1858; 2021

Title: Madison, James, Bland, Theodorick, and Lee, Arthur to Benjamin Harrison, 1782 September 3; No. 1738 James Madison, Jr., Theodorick Bland, Jr. and Arthur Lee to Benjamin Harrison
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:889
Description: Inform him that they presented in Congress a resolution of the [Virginia] Assembly regarding the emission of money of 18 March 1780 and the destruction of Continental money by the commissioners of Virginia; inform him that the resolution of Congress [of 27 Aug. 17821 regarding the garrison at Yorktown, [Va.] has been transmitted to him; inform him that they will send a copy of a petition from the inhabitants of Kentucky, which is suspected to be spurious; point out that if western lands are ceded to the United States, they might be used to pay the national debt; inform him about a rumor that the combined fleets of France, Spain, and the Netherlands have taken vessels of the [British] "Quebec fleet" in the English Channel.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al; Bland, Theodorick, 1742-1790et al; Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792et al
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance--Congresses; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations, British; United States. Congress
Date: 1782-09-03; 2021