From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, [8 February 1791]
To John Cochran1
[Treasury Department, February 8, 1791. The description of this letter in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Concerning ‘the Payment of Pensions to Invalids for the space of one year.… The allowance for your trouble will be two per cent on what you pay.’”2 Letter not found.]
The Collector: A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors, LXXXI, (1968), 806, Item B242.
1. Cochran was commissioner of loans for New York from 1790 to 1795.
2. This quotation also appears in H to Jedediah Huntington, January 30, 1790 ( , VI, 232–33). See also H to Nathaniel Appleton, February 8, 1791 ( , VIII, 13–14).