From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 10 November 1795
To Alexander Hamilton
Philadelphia 10th Novr 1795.
My dear Sir,
Your favor of the 5th has been duly received, but nothing was said in it of young Fayette. I am willing, as I said in my last, to receive him under any circumstances, or in any manner you may conceive best; & wish to know what that is.1
Having, since I wrote to you on the 29th Ult. received more agreeable—tho’ not conclusive—accounts from abroad, I pray you to suspend your superstructure until you receive a ground plan from me, which shall be in a few days with better, or at least with more ample materials.2 Yours always—and very affectionately
Go: Washington
ALS, DLC: Alexander Hamilton Papers.
1. GW is referring to his first letter to Hamilton of 29 October.
2. GW is referring to the request in his second letter to Hamilton of 29 Oct. that Hamilton send his “sentiments” on what GW should communicate to Congress. On 5 Nov. the State Department received Thomas Pinckney’s letters of 11 and 27 Aug. giving encouraging news about the Spanish negotiations; on 6 Nov. it received James Simpson’s letter of 18 Sept. declaring his success in Morocco; and on 10 Nov. it received Simpson’s letter of 24 Sept. announcing the success of Joseph Donaldson’s mission to Algiers (DNA: RG 59, Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Spain; DNA: RG 59, Consular Despatches, Gibraltar).