1To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Lee, 6 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Use your first leisure & tell me all the political news, especially whether it is possible that Congress mean to pick a quarrel with G. B. An alarm on this subject affects many here. Is it not better to bear temporary evils & by negotiation to diminish or dismiss them, than with a view to releive ourselves from them to plunge ourselves into the miserys of war? If our councillors be so lost to...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Bland Lee, 6 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Having received a letter from Mr. Francis Corbin a gentleman with whom you, I beleive, are acqauinted, requesting that Mr. George Turner may be mentioned as a candidate for the Collectorship of Rappahannock —I lose no time in informing you thereof. I have always heard a good character of Mr. Turner—particulerly as an attentive, punctual, & intelligent agent in all pecuniary affairs, with which...