JAMES MADISON
                     A REGISTER OF ADDITIONS TO HIS PAPERS
                          IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                                  Prepared by
                 Michael McElderry, 1979; David Mathisen, 1985

                            Revised and expanded by
                              Nan Thompson Ernst

                              Manuscript Division
                              Library of Congress

                             Washington, D.C. 1996



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                          ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION


      The addition to the papers of James Madison (1751-1836),
delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress, secretary of
state, U.S. representative from Virginia, and president of the
United States, consists of material received through gift and
purchase by the Library of Congress, 1970-1989.


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                    Linear feet of shelf space occupied:  1
                    Approximate number of items:        400



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                               BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


1751, Mar. 16    Born, Port Conway, King George County, Va. (5 Mar. 1750,
                    Julian calendar)

1771             Bachelor of Arts, College of New Jersey, Princeton, N.J.

1774             Member, Committee of Safety, Orange County, Va.

1776             Orange County delegate, Virginia Convention and General
                    Assembly, Williamsburg, Va.

1777-1779        Member, Virginia Council of State

1780-1783        Delegate from Virginia, Continental Congress

1784-1786        Orange County delegate, Virginia House of Delegates
                 Read law in Orange and Richmond, Va.

1786-1788        Delegate, Continental Congress

1787             Member, Constitutional Convention

1787-1788        Contributor to _The Federalist Papers_

1788             Delegate, Virginia ratifying convention to vote on federal
                    constitution

1789-1797        Representative, U.S. House of Representatives

1794             Married Dolley Payne Todd

1799-1801        Orange County representative, Virginia House of Delegates

1801-1809        Secretary of state

1809-1817        President of the United States

1812-1815        Commander-in-chief, War of 1812

1817             Retired to Montpelier estate, Orange County, Va.

1829             Delegate, Virginia Constitutional Convention

1836, June 28    Died, Montpelier, Va.



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                            SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE


     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 James Madison Papers housed in the Library of Congress before 1965
were arranged in six series and microfilmed.  Those papers are indexed and
described in _Index to the James Madison Papers_ published by the Library of
Congress in 1965.  None of the papers in Series 7, Addenda, has been
microfilmed or indexed.

     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.



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                                CONTAINER LIST



Container Nos.   Contents

SERIES 7.  ADDENDA, 1744-1845, n.d.

Box 1            1979-85 Addition
                    Part A, original documents
                       Correspondence, 1780-1834 (some with transcripts)
                       Letter of (Bishop) James Madison, 3 Apr. 1781
                       General index to Madison letters
                       Receipt, 17 Apr. 1790
                       Veto of bonus bill, 3 Mar. 1817
                       Virginia convention speech, 1829
                       Washington-Madison Papers catalog, James C. McGuire
                          Collection
                    Part B, copies and abstracts
                       Photocopies
                          Family correspondence, 1803-1845
                          General correspondence, 1784-1830
                          Biographical writing about Dolley Madison
                          Indenture between Madison's parents James and Nelly
                             Madison and Francis Cowherd, 19 Aug. 1784
                          Account book of James Madison, Sr., 1744-60 

Box 2                     Miscellany
                          Notes on confederation and federal governments
                          Resolutions proposed by William Randolph in the
                             Constitutional Convention, 29 May 1787
                       Abstracts of letters and papers
                          Armstrong, John, 1804-23
                          Coles, Edward, 1812-37
                          Dayton, Jonathan, 1808-14
                          Jefferson, Thomas, John Adams, John Quincy Adams,
                             and others, 1783-1831
                          Jones, Joseph, 1780-1804
                          Madison, James, 1780-1830
                          Pendleton, Edmund, 1752-1792
                          Randolph, Edmund, 1781-1790
                          Rush, Benjamin, Richard Rush, and William C. Rives,
                             1790-1837
                          Washington, George, 1779-96
                    Part C, miscellany
                       "Extracts from The Madison Papers," draft essay, n.d.
                       List of letters sent and received by Madison,
                          1796-1836
                       Newspaper clippings, 1788-1833, n.d.  _See Oversize_

                 1996 Addition
                    Photoreproductions of letters, 1811-12


OVERSIZE, 1788-1833, n.d.

Box OV 1         1979-85 Addition
                    Part C
                       Newspaper clippings, 1788-1833, n.d. (Container 2)


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