Jeremiah Wadsworth To Henry Knox About Reaction To The Constitution In Various States And The Death Of Knoxs Dog 23 December 1787

Is happy to hear that Pennsylvania adopted the Constitution. Mentions the debates over the Constitution in Connecticut. Hopes to set out soon for New York as soon as that business is over and possibly attend Congress. Mentions that Old Pluckemin [a dog] has died. In a postscript, writes, If Publius comes out in a pamphlet I would want to have a number (likely a reference to the Federalist Papers). States that everything written about the constitution in New York is forwarded under cover to our Wrong Heads - & every under hand manner taken to prevent our adopting it... Recipient inferred based on content.