The great state paper which passed from the hand of Rutledge [Pg 72] to the hand of Washington was not engrossed on parchment, like a second Magna Charta; it was not attested by signature or date; it was not even in writing; a few pages of printer's paper, plain and unpretentious; a mere copy, one of a number of printed copies, as we gather from the record.
— from The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught by Charles C. Nott