Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 April 1792

To George Washington

Treasury Department April 19th. 1792.

The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit to the President a copy of his letter of the 8th. of March to the Minister plenipotentiary of France, on the subject of an advance of money, and another of the Minister’s answer;1 in order that the President may be pleased to cause the necessary instructions to be sent through the proper Department to the Minister plenipotentiary of the United States, at the Court of France.2

Copy, Columbia University Libraries; letterpress copy, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress; LC, RG 59, Diplomatic and Consular Instructions of the Department of State, National Archives.

1. H to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, March 8, 1792, and Ternant to H, March 10, 1792.

2. Gouverneur Morris.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 April 1792
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Washington, George
    Date
    19 April 1792

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 April 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-11-02-0251. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 11, February 1792 – June 1792, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966, p. 320.]

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