1From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 14 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, February 14, 1790. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by George A. Leavitt & Company, May 10, 1883, Lot 1075.
2[Diary entry: 14 February 1790] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 14th. At home all day—writing private letters to Virginia.
3Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 14 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly favoured with your letters of the 9th and 10th inst. —the latter enclosing the President’s acct as it then stood with you. In reply to your wish to know the President’s birth day, it will be sufficient to observe that it is on the 11th of February Old Style; but the Almanack-makers have generally set it down opposite to the 11th day of the present Style. How far this may go...
4To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received the letter of the 21st of January with which you have honored me, and no longer hesitate to undertake the office to which you are pleased to call me. your desire that I should come on as quickly as possible is a sufficient reason for me to postpone every matter of business, however pressing, which admits postponement. still it will be the close of the ensuing week before I...
5To George Washington from Wakelin Welch & Son, 14 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
Since ours of the 8th Oct. to your Excellency, we recd the Bag by the Packet & prior to our forwarding it, to Mr Young, we found that a Gentleman one Mr John Symonds a Neighbour of his, had during Mr Youngs absence who was then in France, the sole transaction of his Affairs, we therefore wrote him, he observed that he had receivd the Letters we had the hon⟨r⟩ of sending from You, & desird we...
6From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1790 (Madison Papers)
We proceed slowly in business. The Report of Mr. Hamilton has been, of late, the principal subject of debate. On the foreign debt the vote has been unanimous. On the domestic, a reduction of the transferred principal has been brought into view by several arguments and propositions. My idea is that there should be no interference of the public in favour of the public either as to principal or...
7To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1790 (Madison Papers)
I received your favor of Jan. 24. the day before yesterday; the President’s of the 21st. was 16 days getting to my hands. I write him by this occasion my acceptance, and shall endeavor to subdue the reluctance I have to that office which has increased so as to oppress me extremely. The President pressed my coming on immediately, and I have only said to him in general that circumstances,...
8From James Madison to Edward Carrington, 14 February 1790 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 14 February 1790. Acknowledged in Carrington to JM, 2 Mar. 1790 . Explains his motion in Congress to discriminate between the original and present holders of public securities.
9From Thomas Jefferson to William Temple Franklin, 14 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a month ago your favor of Dec. 17. but it is not till now that I am able to answer it, because it is only now that my undertaking the office to which I have been named has been quite decided on. With respect to the one I quit, the nomination being purely with the President, and his anxiety for the success of his administration doubtless as great as in reason it should be, I scarcely...
10From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 14 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of Dec. 12. and thank you for your friendly congratulations on my return to my native country as well as for the interest you are pleased to express in the appointment with which I have been honored. I have thought it my duty to undertake it, tho with no prepossessions in favor of my talents for executing it to the satisfaction of the public.—With respect to the...