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From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, [n.d.]

To James McHenry

[New York, n.d.]1

My Dr. Sir

I was at Albany when your letter got here. I have snatched the first hour from my avocations to sketch to you my thoughts in a rude shape.

Yrs. Affecly

A H

ALS, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, New York; ALS (photostat), James McHenry Papers, Library of Congress.

1. This letter was presumably written between January 12, 1796, when McHenry was appointed Secretary of War, and May 6, 1800, when he submitted his letter of resignation to President John Adams.

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, [n.d.],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0003-0018. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 781.]

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