Dolly Madison letters for the years 1804 thru 1836

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Dolly Madison letter to MRS. GENERAL MASON...I am obliged, my charming friend, to announce to you the disappointment in my hopes of attending your agreeable party to Alexandria...

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Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...Where will you celebrate the Fourth of July, my dear sister ? We are to have grand doings here.

unknown - 0 April 1804

Dolly Madison letter to Mrs. Issac.

unknown - 26 April 1804

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna.

unknown - 22 May 1804

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...There is so much I could tell you about these new French people...

Washington, DC - 0 June 1804

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna

Montpelier, VA - 3 June 1804

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...I have been very ill since I wrote last, with inflammatory rheumatism ; never had I more extreme pain in sickness.

Washington, DC - 16 July 1804

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna.

Washington, DC - 4 June 1805

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...I write to you from my bed, to which I have been confined for ten days with a bad knee...

Washington, DC - 8 July 1805

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...My knee will keep me in WASHINGTON longer, I fear, than will be conducive to our health or interest.

Philadelphia, PA - 29 July 1805

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...My health and spirits revived every day with the drive...

Philadelphia, PA - 31 July 1805

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...Dr. Physic has put my knee in splints and promises me a cure in time.

Montpelier, VA - 4 August 1805

Dolly Madison letter to mother Mary Coles Payne... Dolly and Lucy both gone! they are now angels...

Philadelphia, PA - 26 October 1805

Dolly Madison letter to husband...In my dreams of last night, I saw you in your chamber, unable to move, from riding so far and so fast.

Philadelphia, PA - 30 October 1805

Dolly Madison letter to husband...To find you love me, have my child safe, and that my mother is well, seems to comprise all my happiness.

Philadelphia, PA - 1 November 1805

Dolly Madison letter to husband...the doctor has just told me that I may reasonably hope to leave this place in a fortnight...

Philadelphia, PA - 15 November 1805

Dolly Madison letter to husband...I see that Jackson's paper has announced the declaration of war from Spain against us...

Washington, DC - 27 May 1807

Dolly Madison letter to first_last...The President has a sick headache every day, and is obliged to retire to a dark room every morning by nine o clock.

Montpelier, VA - 28 August 1808

Dolly Madison letter to first_last...With heartfelt joy, my beloved sister, did I receive the short letter of my brother, giving the good tidings of your third son...

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Dolly Madison letter to Joel Barlow...Before this, you know of our Embargo, to be followed by War!! Yes, that terrible event is at hand...

Washington, DC - 15 November 1811

Dolly Madison letter to Joel Barlow...Your notes giving us an account of your progress on the water were grateful, indeed, but the news of your safe arrival in France infinitely more so.

Washington, DC - 20 December 1811

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...No Constitution heard of yet ; the Hornet went to take despatches and to let them know our determination to fight for our rights.

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Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...I wrote you that the Embargo would take place three or four days before it did

Washington, DC - 20 March 1812

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...The Federalists affronted to a man.

Washington, DC - 12 May 1812

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...John Randolph has been firing away at the "House" this morning against the declaration of war, but we think it will have little effect.

Washington, DC - 12 May 1813

Dolly Madison letter to Edward Coles...For the last week all the city and Georgetown (except the Cabinet) have expected a visit from the enemy...

Washington, DC - 10 June 1813

Dolly Madison letter to cousin Edward Coles...About the picture, if Mr. D. will return it safe in six months, more or less, he may send for it as soon as ever he chooses.

unknown - 2 July 1813

Dolly Madison letter to Edward Coles... Mr. Madison recovers; for the last three weeks his fever has been so slight as to permit him to take bark every hour and with good effect.

Montpelier, DC - 5 September 1819

Dolly Madison letter to Edward Coles...I am afraid, dear cousin, that while you and I deliberate who to choose for a wife, we shall lose some -of the finest girls now grown.

Montpelier, VA - 0 April 1823

Dolly Madison letter to son...I am impatient to hear from you, my dearest Payne

Montpelier, VA - 2 December 1824

Dolly Madison letter to son Payne Todd.

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Dolly Madison letter to cousin Sarah Coles Stevenson... that my husband is fixed here, and hates to have me leave him...

Montpelier, VA - 26 July 1826

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna ...Yesterday we had ninety persons to dine with us at one table, put up on the lawn, under a thick arbor.

Montpelier, VA - 30 July 1826

Dolly Madison letter to her neice Mary Cutts....We had old Mr. Patterson and his son Edward from Baltimore to stay with us several days, and they tell me that Madame Bonaparte is still in France

Montpelier, VA - 10 March 1830

Dolly Madison letter to neice Dolly...Imagine, if you can, a greater trial to the patience of us farmers than the destruction of a radiant patch of green peas by frost!

Montpelier, VA - 30 November 1830

Dolly Madison letter to neice Dolly...I find you have no idea yet of the improvement love can make...

Montpelier, VA - 5 January 1831

Dolly Madison letter to neice Mary...you must help her in every way you can, keep her room quiet, and herself free from the slightest agitation or uneasiness.

Montpelier, VA - 18 September 1831

Dolly Madison letter to neice Mary...Your Uncle Madison still wears the bead ring you placed on his finger, and I see him look at it every now and then without saying anything.

Montpelier, VA - 0 December 1831

Dolly Madison letter to neice Mary...I have been the most disconsolate of persons these three or four days, and all because of a violent toothache.

Montpelier, VA - 5 August 1832

Dolly Madison letter to brother...The heart of your miserable sister mourns with you and for your dear children.

Montpelier, VA - 12 August 1832

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...Mrs. Mason has just written to me to say you are a little better...

Montpelier, VA - 1 August 1833

Dolly Madison letter to neice Mary...There is one secret, however, she did not tell you, and that is the power we all have in forming our own destinies.

Montpelier, VA - 9 September 1833

Dolly Madison letter to neice Dolly...I was as glad to get a letter from you yesterday as I was to receive a present of a pair of the celebrated English Holkim calves, sent me by Mr. Patterson...

Montpelier, VA - 20 July 1834

Dolly Madison letter to son Payne Todd...Mr. Madison is better, though very ill a few days since, and I now hope he will soon be well enough for me to leave him on an expedition...

Montpelier, VA - 2 December 1834

Dolly Madison letter to neice Mary...Our sex are ever losers, when they stem the torrent of public opinion.

Montpelier, VA - 11 May 1835

Dolly Madison letter to neice Dolly...My days are devoted to nursing and comforting my sick patient, who walks only from the bed in which he break fasts to another, in the little room in which you left him...

Montpelier, VA - 31 October 1835

Dolly Madison letter to neice Mary...Have you any amusing books, no matter how old, to lend me?

Montpelier, VA - 5 July 1836

Dolly Madison letter to brother Richard Cutts...I could never doubt your sympathy, dear brother, and require it much now. When can you come and see me?

Montpelier, VA - 10 July 1836

Dolly Madison letter to President Jackson...I am now preparing to execute the trust his confidence reposed in me, that of placing before Congress and the world what his pen had prepared for their use...

Montpelier, VA - 8 November 1836

The sources of consolation in my bereavement which you suggest, are those which my heart can most truly appreciate.