Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to Jacob Read, [November 1798]

To Jacob Read1

[Philadelphia, November, 1798]

I am mortified My Dear Sir that I cannot have the pleasure of dining with you today as I promised; but I am so extremely deranged in point of health that I am compelled to stay at home repose & muse.

Yrs. truly

A Hamilton

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1. Read, a South Carolina Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Jacob Read, [November 1798]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Read, Jacob
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    November 1798

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Jacob Read, [November 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-22-02-0174. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 22, July 1798 – March 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975, p. 314.]

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