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

by Max Farrand

LXXXIII. Elbridge Gerry to General Warren.^[1]

Philadelphia, Aug. 13, 1787.

It is out of my power in return for the information you have given me to inform you of our proceedings in convention, but I think they will be complete in a month or six weeks, perhaps sooner. Whenever they shall be matured I sincerely hope they will be such as you and I can approve, and then they will not be engrafted with principles of mutability, corruption or despotism, principles which some, you and I know, would not dislike to find in our national constitution.

1. Austin, Life of Elbridge Gerry, II, 36.