Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, 23 December 1793

From Alexander Hamilton

Decr. 23. 1793

The Secretary of the Treasury presents his Respects to The Secretary of State requests he will favour him with copies of all his communications to Mr. Genet in answer to applications concerning the Debt. They will be necessary to complete a Report on his last—Mr. Hamilton having acted from his knowlege of them in some instances without having them before him.

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received [23] Dec. 1793 and so recorded in SJL.

The Secretary of the Treasury’s 4 Jan. 1794 report to the President on Genet’s complaints about his department in the French minister’s last letter to TJ of 21 Dec. 1793 is in Syrett, Hamilton description begins Harold C. Syrett and others, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, New York, 1961–87, 27 vols. description ends , xv, 610–18.

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