1To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The private letter which you was so good as to accompany your Official communication with, calls for and has my warmest acknowledgements. The point which I have mentioned in my Official letter, as determining my acceptance of the Office of Supervisor, would have produced that issue, had the measure been less eligible in other respects than it really is, but had I upon any consideration been...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 4 Apr. 1791 . Acknowledging TJ’s of the 4th ult. enclosing commission as supervisor; he is duly sensible of “this additional evidence of the Confidence reposed in me by the President, and the Senate of the United States, and … particularly obliged by the very polite and friendly sentiments” of TJ accompanying the communication. He would have acknowledged this earlier but for several...
3To George Washington from Boissieu de Gibert, 4 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Le Mois De juin Dernier, jai Eû L’honneur de vous Ecrire une Premiere pour vous Supplier vous interesser a Mon Sort, a L’effet D’avoir une Plaçe auprès de vous ou Dans votre Dépendence. Mes talents se Bornent aux affaires Contentieuses a suivre une Correspondance française dresse des Memoires &c., mon âge Meur D’Environ quarante ans donne une asseurance d’assiduité a remplir mon Devoir, Et...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Mathew Carey, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 4, 1791 . Presents his compliments to Carey and declines an invitation to a dinner of the Hibernian Society. Copy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Carey, publisher of The American Museum , had emigrated to Philadelphia from Ireland in 1784. Early in the seventeen-nineties he organized the Hibernian Society for the relief of Irish immigrants.
5From Thomas Jefferson to William Brown, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 21. came to hand on the 24th. and as it proposed a different statement from mine of the 17th. and I was too much engaged to open the papers on that subject, I have not been able to take it up till now. The interval of the war has been usually settled at 8. years. You state it at 3. months less. This trifle is not worth notice, and besides is lessened by an error of a month...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Carroll, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Brown having agreed to settle our balance at £21. 16s. 9d. sterling principal and interest, I have acceded in order to be done with it. Since you have been so good as to be privy to this whole matter, I take the liberty of sending my last letter on the subject, open, through your hands, that you may see that I have been grounded in my belief that I owed nothing, a belief that is still...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A little intermission of public business on the separation of Congress and departure of the President permits me now to turn my attention for a moment to my own affairs. Finding that good tobacco sold tolerably well here, and being assured that the tobacco of the red lands in Albemarle and Bedford were perfectly known here, and commanded always the highest price, I wrote to Mr. Hylton at...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Johnson, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 4 Apr. 1791 . Encloses accounts of the Greenland fishery for 1789 and 1790, the former perfect but the latter not, due to incomplete “returns of success ,” though an exact copy of that given parliament; also list of ships fitted out for Southern fishery in 1789, though it is impossible to foretell their success since some may be out two or three years. These accounts procured after...
9X. Pierre Charles L’Enfant to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I would have reproched myself for not having writen to you as regularly as you had desired I Should were it not for Circumstances to which you will I doubt not attribut this Seeming neglect in approving of the considerations which made me give the whole of my time to forwards as much as possibly could be the busines I had to performe. Great as were my Endeavour to that End it Steel remained...
10To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 4, 1791. “Agreeable to the request expressed in your letter of the 31st. Mr. William Hill has been paid Five thousand Dollars.…” LC , Bank of New York, New York City. Letter not found. See Seton to H, March 28, 1791 .