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

by Max Farrand

ⅭⅭⅭⅩⅥ. Thomas Jefferson to John Adams.^[1]

Monticello, August 10, 1815.

Do you know that there exists in manuscript the ablest work of this kind ever yet executed, of the debates of the constitutional convention of Philadelphia in 1788? The whole of every thing said and done there was taken down by Mr. Madison, with a labor and exactness beyond comprehension.

1. T.J. Randolph, Memoir, Correspondence, etc., of Thomas Jefferson, Ⅳ, 268.