The writings of James Madison, comprising his public papers and his private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed. |
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NOTE.
In photographing the first page of the Journal
(Vol. III., facing p. 2) it was found to be impossible
to reproduce the note, which is on a separate slip of
paper. It contained, as the text (p. 1) indicates, a
list of the members of the convention.
In the note on page 25 (Vol. III.), the sentence
stating Chief-Justice Nott has informed the editor
that "some" of Pinckney's notes are extant is a misprint,
and for "some" the word none should be substituted.
Pierce's sketches of the members of the convention
omit John Francis Mercer of Maryland and
William Churchill Houstoun of New Jersey. The
editor has inadvertently omitted the brief sketch
of Thomas Fitzsimons of Pennsylvania. It should
have been a note on page 116 (Vol. IV.), and is:
"Mr. Fitzsimons is a Merchant of considerable
talents, and speaks very well I am told, in the
Legislature of Pennsylvania. He is about 40 years
old." (Am. Hist. Rev., iii., 328.)
The student should consult Professor John Franklin
Jameson's paper on "Studies in the History of
the Federal Convention of 1787," to appear in the
1903, for an exhaustive discussion and identification
of conntemporaneous writings, besides Madison's,
throwing light on the proceedings of the constitutional
convention.
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