James Madison Letter 1825

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

A Guide to a James Madison Letter, Accession 11201-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

A Guide to a James Madison Letter, Accession 11201-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of an one page matted autograph letter, July 19, 1825, from James Madison, Montpellier, Virginia, to Ashbury Dickins(1780-1861), thanking Dickins in the third person form for sending him a copy of his oration given on the fourth of July. Madison praises the work highly, "J.M. had previously an opportunity of reading it in the newspapers. But it well deserves a place among the select of those anniversary discourses in the more conservative form now given to it." A copy of Dickins' Oration, delivered in the Capitol in the city of Washington, on the Fourth of July, 1825, by Asbury Dickins, and printed in Washington by Gales & Seaton, can be found in the Madison Collection of the Rare Books Division, University of Virginia Library (AC901.M33v.12, no.6).

Acquisition information:
This letter was purchased by the University of Virginia Library on September 20, 1995.
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
1 item