Genres: Letters Diaries & Personal Papers

1787–1789

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

“From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 30 August 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0075. From the separation of the Notables1 to the present moment has been perhaps the most interesting interval ever known to

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1787–1789

Letter from R.D. Spaight to James Iredell (1787)

R.D. Spaight to James Iredell,” August 12, 1787. In The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Volume III, edited by Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. https://www.loc.gov/resource/llscdam.llfr003/?st=gallery. Sir1, The Convention

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