To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Knox, 14 July 1794
From Henry Knox1
War Department, July 14, 1794. “I request that you would please to have placed in the hands of the Naval Agents who have definitively accepted of their appointments certain sums of money with which to commence their operations.… You will be better able to form a judgement of the sum than I can, as you will decide upon the articles which are to be obtained by them.…”
LC, RG 45, Letters Sent Concerning Naval Matters, National Archives; two copies, RG 45, Unbound Records, Area 7 Files, National Archives.
1. For background to this letter, see Knox to H, April 21, 1794. See also Knox to H, second letter of June 25, third letter of July 9, 1794.