11I. Jefferson’s Draft, [before 4 October 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
...and the ninth on a similar sheet; those two sheets were a single leaf when TJ composed the sixth resolution; three additional smaller pieces (two of which have been attached to the primary sheets) hold what became the third resolution
12Drafting the Annual Message to Congress: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
, 11:306, 1296). Jefferson had a partial draft of his annual message ready by 18 Nov., the day on which he asked James Madison to look it over (see ). The drafts of the second annual message have not been found, however. The earliest version that survives is a final version in Jefferson’s hand, printed in this volume at 15 Dec....about the draft message are extant (nor are there any for the...
13II. Fragment of the Composition Draft of the Declaration of Independence, [before 29 July 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
). This fragment appears on one of three half-leaves (TJ Papers, 4: 647–9) which embrace all or part of several documents: (1) rough draft of Resolution on the Case of General Sullivan, 29 July 1776, q.v. (recto of p. 647 and half of recto of p. 649); (2) fair copy of same (beginning on verso and concluding... ...of rough draft of Report of the Committee on the Cedars Cartel, 17 June 1776, q...
14Drafting the Annual Message to Congress: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson’s summoning of the new Congress to convene on 17 Oct. and his desire that the legislators be ready to take up the acquisition of Louisiana without delay meant that he would have to prepare his annual message earlier... .... As he had done in crafting those earlier annual messages, in 1803 he prepared a draft that he asked the heads of the executive departments and the attorney general...
...will be successful.” Congress then went into the committee of the whole, which reported back four resolutions that Congress promptly adopted: the first two recognized the need to put the provinces in a state of defense, while the third authorized the adoption of a petition to the king, and the fourth expressed the colonists’ readiness to negotiate the issue in dispute....to draft... ...draft...
16Madison in the Third Congress, 2 December 1793–3 March 1795 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
endorsed the attack on Hamilton as a delaying tactic to prevent more substantive legislation from reaching the floor until the convening of the Third Congress, in which they expected to have a House majority. They may also have seen the resolutions as a campaign issue during the Virginia congressional elections, which reapportionment and redistricting had postponed until 18 March 1793 (...Third...
17Drafts of a Message to Congress, [ca. 19 September 1814] (Madison Papers)
A third,Partial draft ( : Madison Family Papers, 1768–1866, Special Collections); partial draft ( ). First partial draft in Edward Coles’s hand; consists of one page numbered 6. Second partial draft in ’s hand; consists of three pages numbered 7 through 9. Both partial drafts undated; second partial draft dated 20 Sept. 1814 in the ...few lines from these partial drafts in the final paragraph...
18Alexander Hamilton’s Second Draft of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Words which were underlined for emphasis in the MS are printed with underlines in this draft of the Report.Jefferson had described these regulations in the report on the fisheries which he had communicated to Congress on February 4, 1791 (
19Observations on Jefferson’s Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, [ca. 15 October] 1788 (Madison Papers)
); the second was sent to John Brown in the fall of 1788. Brown had asked him to draft a plan of government for Kentucky in the spring of 1788, but JM refused to take on this additional task while preoccupied with the business of the Virginia ratifying convention. After the convention he accepted Brown’s request “... ...Jefferson plan of Govt. denoting such alterations as would render it...
20Draft of a Treaty with Spain, [ca. December 1810] (Madison Papers)
Catalogue of Jefferson’s Library,The third article of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty stipulated that the territory’s inhabitants would receive “all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens” that came with statehood as quickly as possible, and that until that time they would be...