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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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