Scope and Content Note for Additions to the Collection
Additions to the James Madison Papers are arranged as Series 7, Addenda. The series contains correspondence, transcripts, photocopies and abstracts of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material dating from 1744 to 1845. Comprising previously undescribed parts of the original collection plus subsequent additions, Series 7 is organized in subseries according to the year the additional material was processed.
The 1979-1985 Addition is divided into three parts: Part A contains original documents including correspondence, some with typed transcripts, a receipt, a veto, a speech, and an index and catalog of James C. McGuire's collection of Madison papers. Part B contains copies of documents including family correspondence and other family papers, general correspondence, notes on confederation and federal governments, and abstracts of letters and papers of a political nature written by Madison's contemporaries. Part C includes documents about Madison's papers and newspaper clippings.
The 1996 addition contains two photoreproductions of letters, one to Albert Gallatin, dated 1812, and one to Madison's brother, William, dated 1811.
The 2014 addition is a letter written by Madison to Horatio Gates Spafford in 1825 and a typed transcript.