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

by Max Farrand

LXXXIV. George Washington to La Fayette.^[1]

Philadelphia August 15th. 1787

Altho’ the business of the Fœderal Convention is not yet clos’d, nor I, thereby, enabled to give you an account of its proceedings; yet, the opportunity afforded by Commodore Paul Jones’ Return to France is too favourable for me to omit informing you, that the present expectation of the members is, that it will end about the first of next month; when, or as soon after as it shall be in my power, I will communicate the result of our long deliberation to you.

1. Documentary History of the Constitution, IV, 253.