1To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 15 January 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
The question upon the Constitutionality of the Act imposing duties on Carriages, will I expect be determined by the Supreme Court the next month. I request you if possible to attend the trial as Counsel for the United States. Mr. Lee the Attorney General is now here & will be able to inform you of the time when the trial will come on, and will concert with you the measures proper to be...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 18 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 18, 1796. On April 20, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I have received your letter of the 18th. instant.” Letter not found. ]
3To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your favour of the 20th. The affair with Bond stands thus, & is truly attended with some perplexing circumstances. The communication states, that provisional orders have been given for the surrender of the Posts whenever the House of Representatives shall have indicated an intention to give effect to the Treaty & when an article shall have been negociated explanatory of the sense...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 14 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I am oblidged to you for the intimation in your Letter of the 9th. instant. I have known for some time that Mr. Swan has misrepresented my conduct—he knows that I have more than fullfilled my Contract, that it was an express agreement, that the risque & expence of transmitting the money from Paris to Amsterdam should be borne by him—that Mr. Monroe was a mutual Agent, not the Agent of the...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 17 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I have your Letters of the 15th. & 16th. instant—that for the President will go on by the next mail. The affair of the Capture assumes a more equivocal character as respects the French Government than at first. In a confidential way from some of our Merchants I have reason to believe, that proposals were made to Mr. Murgatroy who built the Ship, by a Mr. Dunkinson an English Gentleman not yet...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 28 [June] 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
No instructions have gone to the Collectors respecting the Entry of Prizes taken by French Privateers; it was expected that a general regulation would have been established by Law; since the rising of Congress every thing has recd. attention in the order which appeared to be most interesting—the point you mention was not forgotten, but it was supposed that as the Judiciary would interfere on...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, July 6, 1796. On July 8, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I have just received your letter of the 6th.” Letter not found. ]
8To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, July 26, 1796. On July 30, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott and acknowledged “the Receipt of your letter of the 26th.” Letter not found. ]
9To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 1 August 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 1, 1796. On August 3, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I have received your letter of the 1st.” Letter not found. ]
10To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 7 August 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 7, 1796. At the top of a letter from Hamilton, dated August 5, 1796, Wolcott wrote : “recd. & ansd. the 7th.” Letter not found. ]