University of Virginia Library

TO EDMUND RANDOLPH.[1]
(Extract.)

Dear Sir,—A letter which I received a few days
ago from Mr. Jefferson gives me a hope that he will
lend his succor in defending the title of Virginia.
He professes ignorance of the ground on which the

report of the committee places the controversy. I
have exhorted him not to drop his purpose, and referred
him to you as a source of copious information
on the subject. I wish much you and he could unite
your ideas on it. Since you left us I have picked up
several pamphlets which had escaped our researches.
Among them are the examination of the Connecticut
claim, and the charter of Georgia, bound up with that
of Maryland and four others. Presuming that a better
use will be made of them, I will send them by Mr.
Jones, requesting, however, that they may be returned
by the hands of him, Dr. Lee, or yourself, as
the case may be.