1From Alexander Hamilton to James Brown, John Graham, and George Pickett, 27 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I learn, with real regret, the disappointment you experienced in your intended subscriptions to the Bank of the United States. It was very much my wish that the property in the Stock of that Bank should be generally diffused throughout the States. But its not having been foreseen, any where, that so rapid a subscription would take place, has been the cause that adequate provisions were not...