1From Alexander Hamilton to Lawrence Butler, 22 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th. inst. I have to observe, in regard to its contents, that appointments of the kind there spoken of, will go through a particular course—In this, the application in behalf of Major Campbell will be put in a train to be duly considered— With great consideratn. ( Df , in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).