Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The papers of James Madison, United States president and secretary of state, delegate to the United States Continental Congress, and United States representative from Virginia, were received by the Library of Congress as gifts, transfers, deposits, and purchases, 1905-2009.
Processing History
The James Madison papers were arranged, indexed, and microfilmed in 1965. Subsequent additions were arranged and described in 1979, and a finding aid to the additions was revised and expanded in 1996. In 2009 the finding aid was expanded by including description of the main collection from the published index. A small addition was incorporated and the finding aid revised in 2014.
Other Repositories
Microfilm of other James Madison material is also available for consultation in the Manuscript Division including letters to Madison from Jonathan Dayton and papers in the Andre De Coppet collection, both copied from originals in the Princeton University Library. Dallas-Jones correspondence was copied from originals at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a card index in the University of Virginia Library has also been reproduced for the Library.
Microfilm
A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on twenty-eight reels. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition as available.
Online Content
The James Madison Papers are available on the Library of Congress Web site at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000003. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition as available.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.