1To Alexander Hamilton from John Lowell, 12 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I recd. your Letter of the 30th: of June last by the Post of Saturday: I recd. the Papers you refer to & returned a new Statement of the Cases, on which I conversed with you when I was in Phila. last Winter. You then seemed to think that Norton might be entituled to a Remission but that Lincoln & others should be pardoned. Soon after my Return I recd. a Letter from you in which you say that...
2To John Adams from John Lowell, 7 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
Although I have had frequent Occassions to sollicit in Favour of my Friends, (or such other Charecters) as I have thought might be usefully employed in public Business, my early Habits, which in all Cases influence our Sentiments, have been such that I have never conversed or written on any such Subject when immediately affecting myself, ’thõ I have been of Opinion that Custom, & the...