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From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, 28 July 1801

To Rufus King

New York July 28. 1801

Dr Sir

You are, I believe, acquainted with The Reverend Mr. Mason1 who will deliver you this. I could not let him depart without placing him under the protection of your friendship. He is in every sense a man of rare merit.

Yrs. Affect.

A Hamilton

R King Esq

ALS, New-York Historical Society, New York City.

1John Mitchell Mason became pastor of the Scotch Presbyterian Church on Cedar Street in New York City in 1793. It 1795 he became a trustee of Columbia College. In 1801 he went to Great Britain to collect books for a seminary which he later established in New York and which became the Union Theological Seminary.

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