To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [December 1794]
From Edmund Randolph
Saturday Morning [Philadelphia, December, 1794]
Dear sir
When I renewed the note for your friendly favor,1 just before your departure for the Westward,2 I did not take up the former one. If you have it, I will thank you for it, when it is convenient to you to send it. But I cannot close this subject, without assuring you of the sense, which I have ever entertained, of this, your disinterested kindness, and which, I can truly say, has never been forgotten by me in any transaction, which has occurred.
For the happiness of yourself and family in every future destination, I offer with absolute sincerity my ⟨war⟩mest wishes.
I am dear sir with great regard & respect Yr. mo. ob. serv.
Edm: Randolph
Colo. Hamilton
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. This is a reference to a note for a loan from H. On the cover of this letter H wrote: “Secty of State his Note of Loan.” See also Randolph to H, April 3, June 4, 1793; William Bell to H, June 2, 1793.
2. This is a reference to H’s trip to western Pennsylvania during the Whiskey Insurrection. H left Philadelphia on September 30, 1794, and returned in late November, 1794.