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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 | ||||||||||||
| REEL 24 | 1833 Feb. 10-1859 Feb. 18 and undated | ||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||
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| 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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| Jefferson, Thomas, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and others, 1783-1831 | |||||||||||||
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