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

by Max Farrand

ⅭⅭⅭⅩⅠ. James Madison to Thomas Jefferson.^[1]

Montpelier July 17. 1810.

Among the papers relating to the Convention of 1787. communicated to you, that copies in your hands might double the security agst. destructive casualties, was a delineation of Hamilton’s plan of a Constitution in his own writing. On looking for it among the Debates &c, which were returned to me, this particular paper does not appear. I conclude therefore, that it had not then been copied, or was at the time in some separate situation. I am very sorry to trouble you on such a subject, but being under an engagement to furnish a Copy of that project, I must ask the favor of you to see whether it be not among your papers; & if so, to forward it by the mail.

1. Documentary History of the Constitution, Ⅴ, 294.