The authorities (outside of unpublished letters
and contemporary newspapers) upon which I
have relied are as follows: For the general his-
tory of the United States, the volumes of Winsor,
Adams and McMaster. For local history and
tradition, the standard histories of Virginia,
Meade Old Churches and Families of Vir-
ginia, the biographies of Virginia Statesmen
and the Journal of a Young Lady of Vir-
ginia. For the picture of Philadelphia life, The
Friends' Monthly Meeting Records, Watson
Annals of Philadelphia, Graydon Memoirs,
Quakers in Pennsylvania (one of the Johns
Hopkins studies), the privately printed Journal
of Elizabeth Drinker, the sketches of travel left
by Robin, Chastellux, de Liancourt, Timothy
Twining and Wansey, and the letters of Fisher
Ames and Jeremiah Smith; for personal details
in the life of Mr. and Mrs. Madison, the Madi-
son Papers, both published and unpublished, in
the State Department at Washington, A Colored
Man's Reminiscences of James Madison, the
Life and Times of Madison (Rives), The Life of
James Madison (Gay), Letters and other Writ-
ings of James Madison, and Selected Extracts
from his Correspondence, edited by McGuire;
The Letters of Mrs. Madison published with a
Memoir by her grand-niece; the letters of Joel
Barlow, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail

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