1To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Henshaw, 15 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Northampton [ Massachusetts ] March 15, 1791 . Asks to be appointed inspector of revenue in Massachusetts. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Henshaw had served as state collector of customs at Boston in the seventeen-eighties.
2From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Henshaw, 10 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, April 10, 1791. “Your letter of the 15th of March duly came to hand.… I wish you not to consider it as mere compliment, when I say, that the light in which your character stands could not fail to have brought you into view in that arrangement. And could you be minutely acquainted with every circumstance that in the President’s mind inclined the ballance a different way, you would...