1To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Lewis, Sr., 11 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I think it my duty to acknowledge the receipt of your letter , enclosing the small Maps . Your favorable Opinion of my Abilities, merits my most sincere thanks: and, approbation coming from so respectable a source, and from one, so capable of ascertaining true worth, adds not a little to my Vanity. Geographical drawings have been my eager pursuit and ambition to excel, almost from my infancy:...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Lewis, Sr., 14 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Was I not well convinced of the goodness of your heart, and the commisseration you feel for the distressed, in every Situation of life; but more especially when importuned from such dreary mansions, I would not have presumed to intrude upon your time, to read the Story of misfortune, or dwell upon my unfortunate lot; not mine alone; but with it is involved the miseries (constantly poured out,...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Lewis, Sr., 22 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I am directed by the secy of War to enclose to your care, the within letters, requesting you will be pleased to have them forwarded to the Paymasters—they contain the necessary funds to enable them to make the advances and payments agreeably to your request. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obt. Servt. ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). On the cover, H wrote a draft of his reply:...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Lewis, Senior, 28 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, January 28, 1799 . Encloses a “Draft for four hundred and ninety six dollars and seventy Cents, on the Branch Bank at New York—the balance (forty dollars) I have paid into the hands of the Secy of War—the whole amounting to five hundred and thirty six dollars and seventy Cents, agreeably to a Warrant issued from the War Department on account of your Pay Subsistence and Forage...