431From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 9 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 9, 1791. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Stan V. Henkels, Jr., April 6, 1922, Lot 221.
432From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 24 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 24, 1792. On January 29, 1792, Schuyler wrote to Hamilton : “Your favor of the 24th instant I received yesterday.” Letter not found. Schuyler, who was H’s father-in-law, had been elected to the short term as United States Senator from New York in 1789 and was defeated for re-election by Aaron Burr in 1791. He was then elected to the fifteenth New York Senate, which met...
433From Alexander Hamilton to William S. Smith, 22 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you some papers from which it would appear that Lieutt. Laidlie, who is now connected with your regiment, has dismissed a soldier from pecuniary considerations; at least that he has committed a great impropriety in discharging a man whom he had regularly enlisted. I request that you will make immediate enquiry into the case, and report the circumstances to me as soon as possible. With...
434From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, [9 July 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, July 9, 1792. On July 30, 1792, Ellery wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your letter of the 9th of this month.” Letter not found. ]
435From Alexander Hamilton to Martin S. Wilkins, [1798] (Hamilton Papers)
[ 1798 ]. Acknowledges receipt of Wilkins’s “notice as to the Trial between Gouverneur and Kemble and Gomez Lopez & Rivera.” ADf , Miscellaneous Papers in Chancery, Court of Appeals, Albany. H wrote this letter as attorney for Louis Le Guen in his suit against Isaac Gouverneur and Peter Kemble. As the letter calendared above indicates, Gouverneur and Kemble were in turn the plaintiffs in a...
436From Alexander Hamilton to William Livingston, 15 December 1788 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, December 15, 1788. On December 22, 1788, Livingston wrote to Hamilton : “Being favoured with your letter of the 15th instant.” Letter not found. ]
437From Alexander Hamilton to James Wilkinson, 21 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The enclosed letter of which the enclosed is a copy has been sent directly to Major Rivardi, the urgency of the case not admitting of a circuitous route— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
438From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Archer, 12 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter the 3d. instant is received and the name of your son as a candidate for the appointment of surgeons mate in the Navy of the United States has been communicated to the Secy. of the Navy aided by with my support. I am Sir with great respect & Esteem yr. obedt. Servt. ( Df , in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). Acknowledges Archer’s letter of...
439To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, 15 January 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. The inclosed letter written by his Clerk will, it is hoped, express his wish sufficiently to render it unnecessary to remodel it. As Col. Rochefontane informs him the vessel, by which the letter is intended to be sent, departs tomorrow Morning he will be obliged by its being returned to him with the proper certificate this Evening. RC (...
440From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 25 March 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 25, 1801. Gives opinion concerning the right of Nathanael Greene’s executors to sell lands in his estate in New York State. ALS , The Sol Feinstone Collection, Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. For background to this letter, see Wadsworth to H, August 23, 1800 .