"Numbers LXII., LXIII., of which Mr. Hamilton is designated in print as the writer, each have a pen mark drawn across his name, for which, in each case, the manuscript initials 'J. M.' are substituted.
"So of Number LXIV., ascribed in print to Mr. Hamilton. A pen mark, drawn across his name, and the manuscript initials 'J. J.' substituted, point to Mr. Jay as the writer.
"To the right of Number LXV. stand these initial letters and words in manuscript, 'A. H. & to the end,' and I find that each of the remaining numbers to LXXXV., (the last,) inclusive, is, according to this, correctly ascribed in print to Mr. Hamilton, exhibiting a monument of the industry, as well as great powers of mind, of that extraordinary man.[1]
"I have thus endeavored to respond, as fully as I could, to your call, and shall be gratified if I have been able to aid your important object. Am I venturing too far in asking permission, having given you an extract from one of the fly-leaves of my edition, to introduce another, in attestation to the exalted character of The Federalist, as viewed by one of the most profound statesmen in Europe?
"' Paris, October 9. 1849. In conversation last night with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Guizot, at his own house, about this work, (the portrait of Mr. Hamilton which hung in his salon having led to the conversation) he said of it, that "in the applica-
- ↑ While the proofs of this sheet were in my hands, I was favored by A. R. Spofford, Esq., assistant librarian of Congress, with very carefully prepared copies of the manuscript memoranda which Mr. Madison made in his own copy of The Fœderalist, that described by Mr. Elliot, in the Washington City Gazette of February 2, 1818, to which reference will be made in the text, (post, p. lii.,)—and they agree, in every respect, with those which he made in the copy belonging to Mr. Rush, as described in the letter.
For the privilege of using the memoranda referred to I am indebted to the venerable General Peter Force, of Washington, in whose invaluable collection a careful copy of them has been preserved
