BIB_ID
124836
Accession number
MA 22281
Creator
Madison, James, 1751-1836, sender.
Display Date
Montpelier, Virginia, 1833 May 16.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 24.8 x 20 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Free James Madison / Thomas Jefferson Randolph / Everettsville / Virginia."
Partial wax seal.
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 14 of Madison album.
The body of the letter is in Dolly Madison's hand; signature, postscript, and address in James Madison's hand. On the verso is a copy of a letter from [Doct. Dunglison?] dated University of Virginia, 14 May 1833.
Partial wax seal.
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 14 of Madison album.
The body of the letter is in Dolly Madison's hand; signature, postscript, and address in James Madison's hand. On the verso is a copy of a letter from [Doct. Dunglison?] dated University of Virginia, 14 May 1833.
Summary
Saying that he has just received a letter from Dr. Dunglison which he is enclosing a copy so that Randolph can show to the visitors; giving an excerpt from a private letter which also needs to be presented to the visitors, which summarizes that Professor Dunglison wants to occupy the writer's pavilion when he leaves the university. On verso, a copy of the letter from Dr. Dunglison states that he received "Communication from the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland, informing me, that, at their meeting of the 9th Inst; they had unanimously appointed me Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, Hygiene and Medical Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Physic in that Institution" and is resigning from his chair at the Univeristy of Virginia and for Madison to please inform the Board of Visitors.
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