1To Alexander Hamilton from Isaac Ledyard, 27 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Petition which you was so good as to shew a friendly concern for (to benifit by the final provision from which I was strangely precluded) is as you advised referred to the Secy of War. I fear this information may come too late for your benevolence to be exercised toward me as you designed. Yesterday I was informed to my great disappointment & grief that an application of mine to Congress...