141George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph, [3 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Fresh occurrences, but communicated thro’ private channels, make it indispensable that the general principles which have already been the subject of discussion should be fixed, & made known for the government of all concerned, as soon as it can be done with propriety. To fix rules on substantial ground, conformably to treaties & the Laws of nations, is extremely desireable. The verdict of the...
142To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [3 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Motives of Justice, friendship & candour induce me to send the enclosed for your perusal. Let me know the truth of this matter. What answer is proper to be given to it, and by whom. The writer is urgent to receive one, having called once or twice since the delivery of it, for This purpose. I am &c. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. At the bottom of the page of the letter book...
143To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [8 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
You having stated to me that there will be due & payable on the first of June next on account of the Loans heretofore made by the United States in Holland, the sum of one million of Florins. I do therefore hereby direct & require that you will take measures for procuring in due time by way of Loan the said sum of one million of florins, to be applied to the payment of the aforesaid...
144To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [8 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The present being, & being likely to continue for some time a favorable season for purchases of the Public Debt, and as it appears that the whole, or the greatest part of the unexpended monies of the foreign loans heretofore made, will be requisite for satisfying the approaching installments of our Debt to France, which it has been judged expedient to pay without deduction for any prior...
145To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 10 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you for giving me the perusal of the letters to you, which are herewith returned. And I pray you to draught, on my behalf, what you may conceive to be a short, but proper & respectful response to the letter of the Chairman—or to the resolves—or to both as you shall judge best (for they come in a form so unusual that I scarcely know the mode that will be most eligable) and let me be...
146To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 27 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
You would oblige me by draughting an answer to the enclosed Address from Richmond (Virginia). If you can conveniently do it, to go by the Post of tomorrow, it would be wished; if not, it will do very well against Friday’s Post. If you are not engaged & will take dinner with me today I should be glad of your Company. Govr. Blount & Genl Pickens will be here. Yours always & sincerely ALS ,...
147To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 2 September [1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Interwoven in the enclosed Address, are Sentiments as difficult to answer, as it would seem odd to pass unnoticed —believing, as I do, that they are the sentiments of a large part of the people of this Country. I would thank you for making such alterations in the expression of the draft of an answer (enclosed) as in your judgment will make it palatable on all sides, or unexceptionable. The...
148To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 5 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 5, 1793. On September 6, 1793, Washington wrote to Hamilton : “The inclosed was written & sent to your office yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
149To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 6 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
With extreme concern I receive the expression of your apprehensions, that you are in the first stages of the prevailing fever. I hope they are groundless, notwithstanding the malignancy of the disorder is so much abated, as with proper & timely applications not much is to be dreaded. The inclosed was written & sent to your office yesterday, with direction if you were not there, to be brought...
150To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 25 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I congratulate you & Mrs. Hamilton very sincerely on your recoveries from the malignant fever which prevailed in Philadelphia; and hope you are both restored to perfect health, and that no other of the family has been siezed with the disorder. In these sentiments Mrs. Washington cordially unite with me. From Mr. Jefferson who has just passed this—from Genl Knox who has set out for Boston—and...