[Pierce Butler: Notebook from the Constitutional Convention]

Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822 [Pierce Butler: Notebook from the Constitutional Convention]

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GLC#
GLC00819.04-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
1787
Author/Creator
Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822
Title
[Pierce Butler: Notebook from the Constitutional Convention]
Place Written
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pagination
2, 2, [10 blank], 1 Height: 16 cm, Width: 10 cm
PDF Download(s)
PDF of image and transcript
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Four pages of text with 12 blank pages and extensive doodles and calculations on the last page of the conjugate sheet. The notebook contains resolutions of May 30, and comments of Gerry, Wilson and Madison from June 6 to June 16. Continued by 819.09. The text (as well as the rest of the collection) is printed in James Hutson's article, "Pierce Butler's Records of the Federal Constitutional Convention," in Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 37:1 (Winter 1980): 64-73. Dated May 30, 1787 - 16 July 1787.

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