1From Alexander Hamilton to James Greenleaf and James Watson, 10 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I received on Saturday your letter of the . I have, from a wish to accommodate, reconsidered my instruction with regard to the payment of intire dividends only; but I cannot satisfy myself that a department from it will be consistent with that exact order in the conduct of the business, which so complicated an operation as the payment of interest in thirteen different places accompanied with...
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...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 10 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is certainly incumbent upon every master of a vessel to make report to the Collector of any district, into which he may go for whatever cause, within twenty four hours, and (if the vessel should remain so long in the district) to make an entry. The officers of the customs who do the duty consequently become entitled to a compensation. It is not however extraordinary that another opinion...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, [10 April 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Th. Jefferson has the honor to send to the Secretary of the Treasury a note just received from Mr. Otto with copies of a correspondence between certain bankers desirous of lending 40 millions of livres to the U.S. the French ministers & mr Short. He will ask the Secretary of the Treasury’s consideration of these papers, & that he will be so good as to return them to him with the substance of...
5From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [10 April 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I have duly received the private letter which you did me the honor to write me of the 4. instant. It is to be lamented that our system is such as still to leave the public peace of the Union at the mercy of each state Government. This is not only the case as it regards direct interferences, but as it regards the inability of the National Government in many particulars to take those direct...
6From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 10 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of the 4th. instant addressed to the Secretary of State the Secretary at War and myself; to which due obedience shall be paid on my part. A letter from Mr. Short dated at Amsterdam the 2d. of December has just come to hand giving me an account of his proceedings to that period; a copy of which will be forwarded by the tuesday’s post. He informs me, among other...
7[Diary entry: 10 April 1791] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 10th. Left Fredericksburgh about 6 Oclock. Myself, Majr. Jackson and one Servant breakfasted at General Spotswoods. The rest of my Servants continued on to Todds Ordinary where they also breakfasted. Dined at the Bowling Green and lodged at Kenner’s Tavern 14 Miles farther—in all 35 M. GW left town “attended by a large company of Gentlemen, of whom he took leave a few miles distant” (...
8To George Washington from Giuseppe Chiappe, 10 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Ja’i eû L’honneaur d’ecrire a V.E. voie de Londres & sous couverte du Consul General des Venerables Etats, Le 18me Janvier añè courent, informente V.E. de Tout ce que êtoit passè dans Le noveau Regnè de Sid Mulai Liezid jousque a cette Epoque, & comme je crois mon devoir de continuer Les de plus novelles passêes après je me fais L’honeaur de les humilier à V.E. S.M.I, à dejá recûes avec...
9To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 10 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of the 4th instant addressed to the Secretary of State the Secretary at War and myself; to which due obedience shall be paid on my part. A letter from Mr Short dated at Amsterdam the 2d of December has just come to hand giving me an account of his proceedings to that period; a copy of which will be forwarded by the tuesday’s post. He informs me, among other...
10To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 2d inst. which I presume would overtake you at Richmond. the present I imagine will not overtake you till you get to Wilmington. since my last I have been honoured with your two letters of March 31. and two others of Apr. 4. one of which was circular. a copy of this I sent to the Vice president, and as Colo. Hamilton has asked a consultation on a letter...
11To George Washington from Henry Knox, 10 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your separate letter of the 4th instant, and also of your joint letter of the same date, to the heads of the departments. By the information from Fort Harmar of the 17th, and Pittsburg of the 31st, it would appear that the Delawares and Wyandots are committing depredations, and that they will be joined in the War against us. But what is still more...
12To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 10 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Since my letter of the 5th I have been honored with your favors of the 3d & 6th of the present month, with their enclosures. In Colo. Cannon’s letter to you there appear’d (as you apprehended) an idea that he conceived himself authorized to let your lands on the Ohio and Kanawa; but he does not express an intention of doing anything respecting them until he shall have seen you, which he...
13To James Madison from the Right Reverend James Madison, 10 April 1791 (Madison Papers)
I am greatly obliged for your Favours by Col. Griffin. The Pleasure, wh. I receive from your Communications, is always particularly agreable; I often wish they were more frequent, but I know the Constancy of your Attention to Matters of more Moment; and it is with real Concern, that I hear your Attention to them has been the means of impairing your Health. I hope however, it will be...
14From James Madison to Daniel Carroll, 10 April 1791 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 10 April 1791. Acknowledged in Carroll to JM, 23 Apr. 1791 . JM apparently sought details of the land acquisitions within the area set aside for the federal district on the Potomac.
15XII. Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with your letter of the 4th. inst. and in compliance with your request I have examined my papers and found the plans of Frankfort on the Mayne, Carlsruhe, Amsterdam Strasburg, Paris, Orleans, Bordeaux, Lyons, Montpelier, Marseilles, Turin and Milan, which I send in a roll by this post. They are on large and accurate scales, having been procured by me while in those respective...
16XIII. Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 2d. inst. which I presume would overtake you at Richmond. The present I imagine will not overtake you till you get to Wilmington. Since my last I have been honoured with your two letters of March 31. and two others of Apr. 4. one of which was circular. A copy of this I sent to the Vice president, and as Colo. Hamilton has asked a consultation on a...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Carroll, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Annapolis, 10 Apr. 1791 . TJ’s of the 4th received. Yesterday morning he gave Brown TJ’s letter, paid him the bank note, and took a receipt which he hopes will be satisfactory. He has kept a copy of latter, encloses original, and is “glad on both your accounts that this affair is thus finally adjusted and settled.” “I flatter myself Congress will during the next Session adopt decisive and...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Mercy Otis Warren, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Plymouth, Massachusetts, 10 Apr. 1791 . Transmitting a volume of her poems to be registered for copyright. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); at foot of text: “Honble. Mr. Jefferson”; endorsed by Remsen as received 31 Dec. 1791 but not recorded in SJL . The volume sent for copyright was Mrs. Warren’s Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous (Boston, 1790), of which she had already presented a personal copy to...
19I. Louis Guillaume Otto to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Chargé des Affaires de France a l’honneur de presenter ses respects à Monsieur le Secretaire d’Etat et de lui envoyer la Correspondance qui a eu lieu concernant la proposition faite par Messrs. Schweizer et Jeanneret de rembourser la dette des Etats unis envers Sa Majesté. Il le supplie de vouloir bien lui renvoyer ces pieces et lui en donner son opinion avant le depart du batiment, qui...
20II. Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send to the Secretary of the Treasury a note just received from Mr. Otto with copies of a correspondence between certain bankers desirous of lending 40. millions of livres to the U. S. the French ministers and Mr. Short. He will ask the Secretary of the Treasury’s consideration of these papers, and that he will be so good as to return them to him with the...