I am familiar w/ the letter "from Henry," but had never heard that it should be attributed to Madison. (Also an issue w/ dating as Henry is dead in 1799.) I will be interested in the results of your inquiry!
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> On June 26, 2018 at 3:23 PM "Hardwick, Kevin R - hardwikr" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I am looking for a citation to a document that I read quite some time ago and am now having difficulty tracking down: an early 19th century letter of advice, if my memory serves from Bishop James Madison to his daughter, written shortly after her marriage, in which he advises her how to be a good wife. I first encountered it in WW Henry's three volume life and letters of Patrick Henry, erroneously attributed there to Patrick Henry and mis-dated to the 1780s. But the original is in Madison's hand, at the Virginia Historical Society. It was transcribed and annotated by Tom Buckley, and published in the VMHB.
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> That's how I remember it, anyway. Except obviously my memory is faulty, because it does not show up via a JSTOR search.
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> Can anyone point me to the published and annotated version of the document?
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> Many thanks, in advance!
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> Best wishes,
> Kevin
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