From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Gouverneur and Peter Kemble, 19 January 1797
To Isaac Gouverneur and Peter Kemble
[New York] January 19, 1797. “You are hereby requested to produce on the Trial of this cause1 during the present term whensoever the same shall be the letters from the Plaintiff to you whereof a list is at foot.…”2
ADfS, Free Library of Philadelphia; ADf, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. This is a reference to the case of Louis Le Guen v Isaac Gouverneur and Peter Kemble, which was one of a series of cases in which H served as the attorney for Le Guen. For a discussion of these cases, see , II, 48–164.
2. Twenty-six letters are listed covering dates from August 18, 1794, through March 28, 1796.