
Letter from James McClurg to James Madison (1787)
I1 am much obliged to you for your communication of the proceedings of ye Convention, since I left them2; for I feel that anxiety about ye result, which it’s Importance must

I1 am much obliged to you for your communication of the proceedings of ye Convention, since I left them2; for I feel that anxiety about ye result, which it’s Importance must

“From James Madison to William Short, 6 June 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/40rb. … The Convention has been formed about 12 days. It contains in several instances the most respectable

“From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/oeme. Dear Sir My last was intended for the Augst. Packet and put into the hands of Commodore

“To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 6 June 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/mow8. The day fixed for the meeting of the Convention was the 14th.ult: on the 25th. and not

“From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/uxkk. . . . The Convention continue to sit, and have been closely employed since the Commencemt. of

“From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 28 July 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/1u3h. I am sorry that I cannot gratify your wish to be informed of the proceedings of

Source: “James Madison to Edward Pendleton1.” May 27, 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. I have

“George Washington to Henry Knox,” August 19, 1787. In Supplement to Max Farrand’s The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, edited by James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press,

“From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 9 September 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/cp6u. Dear George, This acknowledgment of your letter of the 2d of this Month is probably the

“From George Washington to David Stuart, 1 July 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/vnjj. . . . Rhode Island, from our last Accts [still] persevere in that impolitic—unjust—and one might add