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Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 to James Wilkinson re: summoning Wilkinson to Washington

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07656 Author/Creator: Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 Place Written: New York Type: Letter signed Date: 1799/05/23 Pagination: 1 p. + docket 33 x 20.5 cm Order a Copy

"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

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