From Alexander Hamilton to William C. Bentley, 26 February 1800
To William C. Bentley, 26 February 1800
New York February 26. 1800
Sir,
Yours of December the 26th. has been received and on the 13. of last month I wrote to the Secretary of War urging the acceptance of your account, to which not having as yet received an answer, I have this day again written to him on the same subject
with true consideration &c
Colonel Bentley
(Df, in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).