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1790/12/13

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Document signed

Title: to Nathanael Appleton, Commissioner of Loans. US Treasury bond of $166.61

Partly printed Treasury bond, with cancellation marks, affecting the seal and Hamilton's signature. Written at the Treasury Department

GLC06971

1799/05/23

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Letter signed

Title: to James Wilkinson re: summoning Wilkinson to Washington

"I begin now to be anxious to learn that you had received my letter desiring you to repair to the Seat of Government...that...a general plan for the arrangement of the affairs of the Western Army, with an eye to the existing posture of our political concerns, might be digested and adopted." Syrett, Harold C. (The Papers Of Alexander Hamilton. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976), Volume XXIII: 1799/04 - 1799/10, p. 139

GLC07656

1793/05/06

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Letter signed

Title: to Nathaniel Appleton re: attachment of stocks in the loan office

Addressed to Appleton as Commissioner of Loans, Boston.

GLC07794

[1779]/01/30

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox re: Ordinance Department

Preparing for meeting between Washington and Knox. Three collateral engravings of Hamilton with letter.

GLC07167

1800/08/27

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James McHenry re: election, Adams, political dispositions (signed "AH")

He writes of the upcoming election: "We fight Adams on very unequal grounds-because we do not declare the motives of our dislike. The exposition of these is very important but how? I would make it & put my name to it, but I cannot do it without it being conclusively inferred that as to my material fails I must have derived my information from ... the Administration. Yet without this, we have the air of mere caballers & shall be complete run down in the public opinion." Signed with initials.

GLC07280

1792/07/23

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Letter signed

Title: Circular letter re: mail carried by public and private ships

"Yet the Master of every vessel arriving from one port to another, where a Post Office is established, ought, before he "breaks bulk," to deliver the letters, which are directed to be delivered there, in conformity to the 12th section; and so doing, would be entitled to the compensation prescribed by the 13th section." Written at the Treasury Department

GLC07621