1From Alexander Hamilton to James Nicholson, 20 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The unprovoked rudeness and insult which I experienced from You on Saturday leaves me no option but that of a meeting with You, the object of which You will readily understand. I propose to You for the purpose Pawlus Hook as the place and monday next eleven o’clock as the time. I should not fix so remote a day but that I am charged with trusts for other persons which will previously require...
2From Alexander Hamilton to James Nicholson, 22 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of this morng. surprises me as one part of it seems to imply that I had been seeking further correspondence between us. This certainly is not the fact. I considered your last letter as closing the business—nor did any step originate with me, or that I know of with any friend of mine for opening anew the discussion. Measures it is true towards an accommodation have been subsequently...
3From Alexander Hamilton to James Nicholson, 20 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
From an observation contained in the first part of your Note, I think it proper to observe that what You stile the peremptoriness of my invitation proceeded from an impression on my part that the nature of what You said to me especially on a certain very delicate point which You cannot but recollect was such as to render it improper in me to invite explanation. At the same time, I think it now...
4To Alexander Hamilton from James Nicholson, [20 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
I had the honor of recieving a note from you a few minutes ago by Colo: Fish relative to an Altercation that took place between us on Saturday last. On an occasion of this Kind I shall certainly not decline your invitation. Its peremptory tenor necessarily precludes any discussion on my part of the merits of the controversy. The publicity of the affair & the unusual visit of your friend have...
5To Alexander Hamilton from James Nicholson, [21 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
In my answer to your first note I informed you that the peremptory nature of your invitation necessarily precluded an investigation of the merits of the Controversy since any overture on my part to this end might be attributed to the peculiarity of the occasion; to this Sentiment I still adhere. I do however by no means intend to admit that your charges are well founded. The precipitation of...
6To Alexander Hamilton from James Nicholson, [22 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
From the late hour of A Vissit from one of our Acquaintance & her frequent attempts to get Mrs. Nicholson alone in the Garden & from the Converasation I had with the Lady in waiting upon her home, I have no doubt on my mind She came to Alarm my family of what was likely to take place. I have therefore to insist upon the matter being determined at an early hour this Morning, (that all further...
7To Alexander Hamilton from James Nicholson, 22 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your last Letter was handed to me a few Minutes ago; If mine to you this Morning admits the implication you Suspect, I pledge my honour it was not intended—the measures which have been proposed for an accommadation arose, I have no doubt, through the medium of our friends, with none but honourable intentions on either side. As you persist in not altering the hour of our Meeting I must rest...