From Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel John Brooks, [10 September 1779]

To Lieutenant Colonel John Brooks1

[West Point, September 10, 1779]

Dr. Sir,

I send you merely by way of information the copy of a letter, of the 25th. of August, which I yesterday received from Mr. Dana.2 I have only to request that you will be good enough to inform me of the names of all the gentlemen that composed the company before which I had the honor of being exhibited on the occasion in question.

I am D Sir Your friend & servant

Alex Hamilton

Hd. Qrs. Sepr. 10. 79

Col Brooks

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. For background to this letter see H’s correspondence with John Brooks, Francis Dana, William Gordon, and David Henley.

2. Francis Dana to H, August 25, 1779.

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Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel John Brooks, [10 September 1779]
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Brooks, John
Date: 10 September 1779

Reference

Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel John Brooks, [10 September 1779],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-0443. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 2, 1779–1781, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, p. 162.]

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