The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/LXIV

by Max Farrand

LXIV. W.R. Davie to James Iredell.^[1]

Philadelphia, July 17, 1787.

The two great characters you inquire after move with inconceivable circumspection. This hint will satisfy you. Their situations, though dissimilar, are both peculiar and delicate.

I shall not stay until the business is finished. I am sorry it will be out of my power. As soon as the general principles are established I shall set out.

1. McRee, Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, II, 165.