Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Eppes, John Wayles, 1773-1823
2. Emmet Collection.

Description

1. .84 linear foot (4 volumes)

Summary

1. Letterpress copy (rebound in 4 volumes) of a transcript of James Madison's Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, made in 1791 with Madison's approval by John Wayles Eppes of Virginia (1773-1823). Eppes was sent to Philadelphia in 1791 by his family to study and work under the guidance of Thomas Jefferson, his relative. James Madison (1751-1836), the fourth President of the United States, was a Virginia delegate at the Constitutional Convention and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1789. Debate notes, 1787 May 14-September 17, are incomplete. Notes are followed by two texts: "Copy of a paper communicated to J.M. by Colo. Hamilton about the close of the Convention in Philadelphia 1787: which he said delineated the Constitution which he would have wished to be proposed by the Convention. He had stated the principles of it in the course of the deliberations" (15 p.) and "Recommended by Mr. Randolph July 10th as an accommodating proposition to small States" (2 p.). The original transcript is held in the Edward Everett Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Subject

1. Politicians
2. Constitutional conventions > United States
3. United States > Constitutional Convention > (1787)
4. Statesmen
5. United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865
6. Madison, James, 1751-1836
7. Letterpress copies

Genre/Form

1. Letterpress copies.

Call number

1. MssCol 23110

Original location (note)

1. Massachusetts Historical Society;

Source (note)

1. Donated by John S. Kennedy, 1896 as part of the Emmet Collection.

Location of other archival materials (note)

1. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Author

1. Madison, James, 1751-1836.

Title

1. Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, 1791.

Original location

1. Original manuscript in Edward Everett Papers; Massachusetts Historical Society; Boston, Massachusetts

Location of other archival materials

1. Edward Everett Papers, Ms. N-1201; Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Source

1. Donated by John S. Kennedy, 1896 as part of the Emmet Collection.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Politicians.
2. Statesmen.

Added author

1. Eppes, John Wayles, 1773-1823, transcriber.
2. Emmet Collection.

Research call number

1. MssCol 23110