1From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 21 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Regretting most sincerely the calamitous event announced in your letter of this day, it is with real pleasure, I find myself in a condition to inform you, that the sum you desire is at your command to operate as a payment, on account of the debt due to France. It will be most convenient to the Treasury if you can accommodate the objects you have to fulfill to the following installments—of a...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 22 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowlege your letter of yesterday. You will find enclosed warrants on the Treasurer for the sums you desire, that is to say, one in favour of yourself for Eight thousand three hundred and twenty five Dollars, the other in favour of Mr. De la forest, Vice Consul General of France for Twenty two thousand Dollars. The amounts of these warrants will be paid by the Treasurer...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 8 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of this date, communicating the copy of one to you from the Secretary of State in answer to your application of the 3d. instant. Assuring you of the pleasure I shall feel, in executing the views of the President, relatively to the accommodation, which is desired, in as efficacious a manner, as the state of our public resources compared with our public exigencies...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, [11 March 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I hoped ere this to have sent you the calculation desired. But it happens that the Gentleman of my Office whom I usually employ on such occasions is unwell and I have been too much engaged myself to test by calculation the idea which has been in my mind. Of this however you are sure that the charges being 4 ⅌ Ct and the interest for 6 Months 2½ ⅌ Ct 6½ ⅌ Ct six and a half ⅌ Ct. is the utmost...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 12 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to receive your letter of the 10th. instant, and Mr. de la Forest has applied at the Treasury for the payment of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars at the moment when 1 was about to request you would take order for the receipt of that sum. A warrant on the Treasurer has in course been executed. With very great respect & attachment, I have the honor to be Sir Your...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 23 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been heretofore understood between us, that the supplies furnished and payments made, or to be made, within the United States, on account of the debt due to France, should be liquidated according to the intrinsic par of the metals in the two Countries. It remains to settle what this par is, and to deduce from it the true value of a French livre in the legal Currency of the United...
7From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 26 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of this date, it is only necessary for me to say that it is perfectly agreeable to this Government, that the principle of liquidation, to which you refer should receive its application in France, and that the accounts for supplies and advances of money should be there definitively fixed. I am authorised by The President to say that instructions will accordingly be sent...
8From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 22 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 22, 1792. “I duly received your letter of this date. The arrangement proposed by you … is perfectly agreeable to me, and will be executed as you desire.” LS , Arch. des Aff. Etr., Corr. Pol., Etats-Unis, Supplement Vol. 20.
9From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 13 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I think it proper to apprise you that under the existing circumstances the Registry of your “delegations” or drafts cannot be made at the Treasury as desired by your letter of the seventh instant. With respect I have the honor to be Sir Your obedient servant ALS , Arch. des Aff. Etr., Corr. Pol., Etats-Unis Transcripts or photostats from the French Foreign Office deposited in the Library...
10From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 14 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Conformément aux ordres du President, et à l’information que vous en avez recue aujourdhuy de la part du secretaire d’etat, je mettrai à votre disposition une somme de cent mille piastres. Cette somme sera prete à etre acquittée le lr. avril prochain, ce qui au cours des affaires de la place, équivaut à un payement immédiat. J’ai l’honeur d’etre avec respect et estime Mr. etc. LC , Arch. des...
11From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 26 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of this date inclosing one to you from the Secretary of State also of this date. Towards carrying into execution the arrangment, which has been directed by the President of the united States, and which is announced to you in the abovementioned letter from the Secretary of State I shall be ready to pay, on account of the Debt to France, in addition to the sums...
12From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 1 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to assure you, in answer to your letter of the 26th. of February, that fully impressed with the importance to your Object, of speedy advances, it has been my aim to shorten the period of making them; as far as could consist with the general arrangements and prospects of the Treasury; having due regard to other Objects of expenditure which are indispensable. In consequence of your last...