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Gouverneur Morris

Diaries and Memoirs

Miller, Melanie Randolph, and Hendrina Krol, eds. Diaries of Gouverneur Morris – Digital Edition. The University of Virginia Press, n.d. Online. https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/GRMS.html.

Morris, Anne Cary, ed. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, Minister of the United States to France: Member of the Constitutional Convention. 2 vols. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/morris-the-diary-and-letters-of-gouverneur-morris-2-vo.

Primary Sources

Morris, G., and J. J. Barlow. To Secure the Blessings of Liberty: Selected Writings of Gouverneur Morris. Liberty Fund, 2012. https://books.google.com/books?id=3VNNLgEACAAJ.

Biographies

Adams, W. H. Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. Yale University Press, 2014. https://books.google.com/books?id=xrsingEACAAJ.

Brookhiser, Richard. Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. Free Press, 2003.

Crompton, S. W. Gouverneur Morris: Creating a Nation. America’s Founding Fathers. Enslow Publishers, 2004. https://books.google.com/books?id=DVkJAipO96wC.

Greenberger, Scott S. The Forsaken Founder: Gouverneur Morris, the Unsung Patriot Who Wrote the Constitution, Stood up to Slavery, and Survived the Reign of Terror. First 37 INK/Simon&Schuster hardcover edition. 37 INK/Simon & Schuster, 2026.

Kirschke, J. J. Gouverneur Morris: Author, Statesman, and Man of the World. St. Martin’s Press, 2005. https://books.google.com/books?id=MkqBV79cVMkC.

Mintz, Max M. Gouverneur Morris and the American Revolution. First edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Gouverneur Morris. Edited by John T. Morse, JR. American Statesman. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. https://archive.org/details/gouverneurmorris00roos_4.

Sparks, Jared. The Life of Gouverneur Morris: With Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers ; Detailing Events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the Political History of the United States. Gray & Bowen, 1832. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000365873.

Walther, D., and E. Denniston. Gouverneur Morris, Witness of Two Revolutions. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1934. https://books.google.com/books?id=-BxCAAAAIAAJ.