51To George Washington from Edward Carrington, 24 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with yours of the 20th Instant, and have too lively a sensibility to the terms in which you are pleased to request my services as a commissioner of the federal City, not to consult your perfect satisfaction in the reasons for my declining the Offer. They are of both a public & private nature. The business to which my present Office relates, has, from its first...
52From George Washington to Edward Carrington, 20 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
Although I have little reason to hope that, the offer I am going to make you will meet your approbation; yet, from full conviction in my mind, that no one could, or would discharge so important a trust with more energy and propriety than yourself, I am induced to make it. It is of the highest consequence to this Union, and to the Southern States in particular, that the public buildings in the...
53To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 7 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
By the last Mail I had the Honor to receive yours of the 29th. Ult. communicating the Presidents offer of the place of Comptroller of the Treasury. Calls to public Office from that source can never be received by me but with immotions of the highest reverence and gratification, dictated as they uniformly are by motives of public good, they constitute the most flattering evidences of merit,...
54From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Carrington, 29 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 29, 1795. On February 7, 1795, Carrington wrote to Hamilton : “By the last mail I had the Honor to receive yours of the 29th. Ult.” Letter not found. ]
55To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been favored with yours of the 19th. Instant covering your private letter of the same date to Governor Lee. I hear he has left Winchester, & will probably be here tomorrow or next day, and have thought it best to keep his letter until his arrival. The explanations contained in this letter to him, are such as I had anticipated, as you might have perceived from mine to you of the 11th....
56From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Carrington, 19 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 19, 1794. On December 26, 1794, Carrington wrote to Hamilton : “I have been favored with yours of the 19th. Instant.” Letter not found. ]
57To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 12 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been favored with yours of the 1st Instant. All accounts from the scene of the late insurrection agree that the measures which have been pursued have been as successful in their issue, as they were wise in their commencement. I have also the satisfaction of finding that our returned Troops pretty generally agree, that a less force than was called forth would have been opposed, and that...
58From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Carrington, 2 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 23rd of November is this moment received. Governor Lee while in the Western Country informed me, after the Steps had been taken, that he had been under a necessity in two instances to facilitate the return of detachments of sick men, of calling upon Mr. Smith to advance Moneys to Them. The inconveniences of the Measure could not but strike at first view, yet the motives were...
59From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Carrington, 1 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 1, 1794. On December 12, 1794, Carrington wrote to Hamilton : “I have been favored with yours of the 1st. Instant.” Letter not found. ]
60To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 23 November 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Richmond, November 23, 1794. On December 2, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Carrington : “Your letter of the 23rd of November is this moment received.” Letter not found. ]