1From Alexander Hamilton to John Fenno, [17–22 July 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
It has been a general maxim with me, to leave the evidence of my conduct and character to answer the calumnies which party spirit is so incessantly busied in heaping upon me; nor should I have deviated from this course in the present instance, had it not been, that the names of three citizens of political and personal importance in the community appeared to give sanction to the slander. But...
2From Alexander Hamilton to John Fenno, [6 July 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
I have seen in your paper of 27th June past, the advertisement of a new publication, being No. V of the History of the United States for 1796, and containing these paragraphs: “This number likewise contains some singular and authentic papers relative to Mr. Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury. No greater proof can be given of the value which is attached to their suppression than...
3To Alexander Hamilton from John Fenno, 9 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
After struggling for four years & an half with a complication of difficulties in supporting my publication, difficulties which no industrious person has perhaps been called to encounter since the organization of the general Government, I am reduced to a situation so embarrassed, as incapacitates me from printing another paper, without the aid of a considerable Loan. The Types, which I informed...
4To Alexander Hamilton from John Fenno, [19 November–3 December 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
In lieu of a narrative in my own writing the enclosed paper, with the marginal addition, contains all the facts. I would have transcribed it, but have not time. You will please Sir, to note the enclosed Account. AL , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Fenno was the editor of the [Philadelphia] Gazette of the United States . H endorsed this letter: “Mr. Fenno concerning his application to...