1To 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...
2To 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...
3From 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...
4From 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...
5To 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...
6From 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...
7From 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...
8From 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...
9To 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...
10XIII. 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...