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REEL 1-24 Series 1, General Correspondence and Related Items, 1723-1859
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Letters received, drafts of letters sent, and items enclosed with the correspondence.
Arranged chronologically.
REEL 1 1723 May 21-1783 June 30
REEL 2 1783 July 5-1787 Aug. 31
REEL 3 1787 Sept. 4-1789 May
REEL 4 1789 June 1-1792 Mar. 16
REEL 5 1792 Mar. 22-1795
REEL 6 1796 Jan. 5-1801 June 14
REEL 7 1801 June 14-1803 Oct. 7
REEL 8 1803 Oct. 10-1805 Nov.
REEL 9 1805 Dec. 1-1807 Dec. 10
REEL 10 1807 Dec. 11-1809 Mar. 6
REEL 11 1809 Mar. 7-1810 Jan.
REEL 12 1810 Feb. 1-1811 Jan. 10
REEL 13 1811 Jan. 14-1812 Apr. 20
REEL 14 1812 Apr. 21-1813 Jan.
REEL 15 1813 Feb. 1-1814 Feb. 8
REEL 16 1814 Feb. 10-1815 Jan. 30
REEL 17 1815 Feb. 1-1816 Apr. 22
REEL 18 1816 Apr. 23-1818 July
REEL 19 1818 Aug. 7-1822 Jan. 23
REEL 20 1822 Jan. 24-1824
REEL 21 1825 Jan. 4-1827 Oct. 20
REEL 22 1827 Oct. 21-1830 Jan. 25
REEL 23 1830 Jan. 26-1833 Feb. 6
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REEL 24 1833 Feb. 10-1859 Feb. 18 and undated
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REEL 25-26 Series 2, Additional Correspondence and Related Items, 1780-1837
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Letters received, drafts of letters sent, and items enclosed with the correspondence. Materials in this series were used by William C. Rives in his nineteenth-century biography of Madison and restored to the Madison papers in 1958.
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REEL 25 1780 May 21-1809 Dec. 10
REEL 26 1810 Jan. 20-1837 and undated
REEL 27 Series 3, Madison-Armstrong Correspondence, 1813-1836
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Copies of letters written by Madison to Secretary of War John Armstrong, 1813-1814, and a few copies of letters by Armstrong and others.
REEL 27 1813-1836
REEL 27 Series 4, Autobiography and Legal Documents, circa 1751-1852
REEL 27 Subseries 4A, Autobiography, circa 1751-1829
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Madison's brief autobiography.
REEL 27 Subseries 4B, Madison Family Legal, Financial, and Estate Papers, 1779-1852
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Legal documents relating to the estate of Madison's father, James Madison (1723-1801), and a copy of the younger James Madison's will. Also includes items documenting the purchase of Madison's papers.
REEL 27-28 Series 5, James Madison's and Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Debates, 1776-1788
Jefferson's notes on debates in the Continental Congress; Madison's notes on debates in the Congress of the Confederation, and on the Federal Convention; with copies of notes by John C. Payne.
REEL 27 Subseries 5A, Jefferson's notes on debates in the Continental Congress, 1776 June 7-August 1
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REEL 27 Subseries 5B, Madison's original notes on debates in the Confederation Congress, 1782-1783 , and copies of letters, 1780-1788
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REEL 27 Subseries 5C, John C. Payne's copy of Madison's original notes on debates in the Confederation Congress, and copies of letters, 1780-1788
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REEL 27 Subseries 5D, John C. Payne's copy of Jefferson's notes on debates in the Continental Congress, 1776 June-August
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REEL 27 Subseries 5E, Madison's original notes on debates in the Federal Constitutional Convention, 1787
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REEL 28 Subseries 5F, John C. Payne's copy of Madison's original notes on debates in the Federal Constitutional Convention, 1787
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REEL 28 Series 6, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, circa 1763-1836
Book manuscript, notes, printed matter, family tree, and copy of Alexander Hamilton's observations on the federal government.
REEL 28 Subseries 6A, James Madison, "A Brief System of Logick," 1763-1765
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REEL 28 Subseries 6B, James Madison, Notes on Exports and Navigation, 1769
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REEL 28 Subseries 6C, James Madison, Notes on the Articles of Confederation, 1775 July 15
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REEL 28 Subseries 6D, James Madison, Notes on Federal Governments, 1789
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REEL 28 Subseries 6E, Alexander Hamilton's Observations on Federal Government (copy sent by Madison to John Mitchell Mason), 1810 Jan. 12
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REEL 28 Subseries 6F, Two Acts of Congress Concerning the Army, signed by James Madison, 1814 Jan. 27 (printed)
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REEL 28 Subseries 6G, Resolutions of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the death of James Madison, 1836 June 30
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REEL 28 Subseries 6H, Madison Family Tree
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REEL 28 Subseries 6I, James Madison, Notes on Natural History and Foreign Trade
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BOX 7:1-2not filmed Series 7, Addenda, 1744-1845
Correspondence, transcripts, photocopies and abstracts of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material.
Organized according to the year the additional material was processed.
BOX 7:1not filmed 1979-1985 Addition
Part A, original documents
Correspondence (some with transcripts), 1780-1834
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Letter of Bishop James Madison (cousin), 1781 Apr. 3
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General index to Madison letters
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Receipt, 1790 Apr. 17
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Veto of bonus bill, 1817 Mar. 3
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Virginia convention speech, 1829
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Washington-Madison Papers catalog, James C. McGuire Collection
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Part B, copies and abstracts
Photocopies
Family correspondence, 1803-1845
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General correspondence, 1784-1830
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Biographical writing about Dolley Madison
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Indenture between Madison's parents, James and Nelly Madison, and Francis Cowherd, 1784 Aug. 19
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Account book of James Madison (father), 1744-1760
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BOX 7:2 Miscellany
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Notes on confederation and federal governments
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Resolutions proposed by William Randolph in the Constitutional Convention, 1787 May 29
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Abstracts of letters and papers
Armstrong, John, 1804-1823
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Coles, Edward, 1812-1837
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Dayton, Jonathan, 1808-1814
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