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From Alexander Hamilton to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 29 March 1793

To Pierre Charles L’Enfant1

[Philadelphia] March 29. 1793

Private & Confidential

Dear Sir

The ideas you have communicated give me pain. I wish you had not adopted the idea of adjourning the hands, unless you had been legally directed so to do. I cannot imagine that the Directors will adopt the change. If you are still in a situation to go on with propriety I wish you by all means to do it. You may be assured I shall not be unmindful of the business.

Yrs. truly

A Hamilton

ALS, Hamilton College Library, Clinton, New York.

1. For background to this letter, see Elisha Boudinot to H, March 26, 1793; L’Enfant to H, March 26, 1793; Peter Colt to H, March 27, 1793.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 29 March 1793
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    L’Enfant, Pierre Charles
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    29 March 1793

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 29 March 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-14-02-0149. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 14, February 1793 – June 1793, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, p. 258.]

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