From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 15 March 1791

To Richard Harison

Treasury Department
March 15. 1791

Sir

You will find under this cover a letter of particular importance to this department,1 the business of which will I doubt not receive your early attention.

I am, Sir, Your Obedient servant

Alexander Hamilton

Richard Harison Esqr.
Attorney of the United States
for the district of New York

LS, New-York Historical Society, New York City.

1. William Lewis to Harison, March 14, 1791 (ALS, New-York Historical Society). In this letter, Lewis, United States attorney for the District of Pennsylvania, asked for Harison’s assistance in apprehending a band of counterfeiters.

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Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 15 March 1791
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Harison, Richard
Date: 15 March 1791

Reference

Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 15 March 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-08-02-0112. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 8, February 1791 – July 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, pp. 184–185.]

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