JAMES MADISON (1751-1836) Fourth President of the United States considered the "Father of the Constitution", he authored the Federalist papers and sponsored the Bill of Rights. Good content L.S. "James Madison " 1p. 4to., Montpellier, Aug. 10, 1833 to John H. Sherburne thanking him for sending "...a portrait of your father, for which and the personal sentiments you express I return my thanks. My recollection of the political and personal good will always experienced from Col. [John S.] Sherburne gives the due value to what is expressed as a token of it; and the value enhanced by its kindred effect in reminding me of the friendship of his near connection Governor Langdon for whom I always entertained the most cordial esteem & regard... " Then Madison adds apologetically, "For the delay of this acknowledgment of your favor, I must offer the apology of my great age, and decrepit condition, the apology to which I am obliged to recur, on other epistolary occasions ". Sherburne and Madison both served in Congress together between 1793 and 1797. Sherburne (1757-1830), one of the few Jeffersonian Republicans from New England in the 1790s was a legislative ally of Madison. Sherburne later was appointed by Thomas Jefferson as U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire and later as U.S. Judge for the District of New Hampshire, a post he held to the end of his life. Usual folds, light toning, otherwise fine. $1,500-2,000