Excerpt from Letters, and Other Writings, Vol. 1 of 4
On the 3 rd of March 1837, Congress appropriated$30, 000 for the purchase of the Mss. of Mr. Madison referred to in a letter from Mrs. Madison to the President of the United States, dated 15 November, 1836.
On the 14th of October 1837, Congress passed an Act granting to Mrs. Madison the right to publish in foreign countries, for her own benefit, her husbands Ms. Debates of the Convention of 1787.
On the 9th of July 1838, Congress passed an Act authorizing the Library Committee to cause the Madison Papers to be printed and published, and appropriating$5, 000 for the purpose.
Those Papers were accordingly published in three vols. 8vo., Washington 1840, printed by Langtree and O"Sullivan. They contain Mr Madison"s Reports of Debates during the Congress of the Confederation, [1782, 1783, and 1787,] and in the Federal Convention of 1787: Also letters to General Washington, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Randolph, Mr. Pendleton, and Mr. Joseph Jones, and a few other letters, written during the period covered by those Reports. [Vol. I. pp. 43 186, 469 5 S 0.Vol. II. pp. 615-682.]
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