To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Williams, 17 June 1799
From Jonathan Williams
Philadelphia, June 17, 1799. Encloses “a pamphlet on Fortification with six plates,1 and 122 pages of a Treatise on Artillery with twenty four Tables.”2 States: “the remainder of the latter Work shall be forwarded as soon as it can be obtained from the Printer.…”
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. This is a reference to Williams’s translation of Alexandre Pierre Julienne de Belair, The Elements of Fortification, Translated From The French (Philadelphia: Printed for the War Office by John Ward Fenno, 1799).
2. This is a reference to Williams’s translation of Henri Othon de Scheel, Treatise of Artillery; containing a new system, or the alterations made in the French Artillery, since 1765, translated by Jonathan Williams (2 vols., Philadelphia: Printed for the War Office by John Ward Fenno, 1800).