The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/LXXXII
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LXXXII. James Madison to his Father.[1]
Philada. Augst. 12. 1787.
The Convention reassembled at the time my last mentioned that they had adjourned to. It is not possible yet to determine the period to which the Session will be spun out. It must be some weeks from this date at least, and possibly may be computed by months. Eleven States are on the ground, and have generally been so since the second or third week of the Session. Rhode Island is one of the absent States. She has never yet appointed deputies. N. H. till of late was the other. That State is now represented. But just before the arrival of her deputies, those of N. York left us.
- ↑ Documentary History of the Constitution, IV, 247–248.