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I have recd. your favour of the 22d. and at the same time, under another cover, the paper containing your observations on the depending modification of the federal Courts.
The Judicial Department is evidently not a little difficult to be accomodated to the territorial extent to which the Legislative & Executive may be carried, on the federal principle. To prevent the gradual departure from... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: James Madison
Recipient: MVB
I have been confined to my room [. . .] day & to day & am not well enough to [. . .] much more than acknowledge the receipt of your letter. Your opinion upon Noah’s article <illegible> ^is^ such as I should have expected from you. I saw it a few moments before I left Nyork & my first impression was to write to our friends at Albany & advise them to rid us of all future... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: Claiborne Watts Gooch
On returning to my apartment after a few minutes absence, I find Mr Dudley’s card & your very welcome letter. At present we are buried under snow; but as soon as we are thawed, or dug out I shall wait upon your friend in person. I have no doubt that I shall find his merits entirely unexaggerated by your pen.
Your message has been so praised by friends & foes (I mean political foes—for I... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: John Randolph
Recipient: MVB
I ought to have written to you before to thank you for your kind & instructive letters, but you can well conceive how it is here. The truth is I have hardly time to read, much less to answer my letters, & I am so connected with a question that works itself into every thing, that I am more than ever disinclined to letter writing in regard to which my habits have, I am ashamed to say it,... Continue Reading
Sender/Author: MVB
Recipient: Claiborne Watts Gooch
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