3301From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 23 February 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, February 23, 1797. On March 3, 1797, Morris wrote to Hamilton and referred to “Yours of the 23d.” Letter not found. ]
3302From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 25 August 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
This letter serves only to transmit the two last papers: I wish the measures I have taken to satisfy you on the points you desire to be informed of, had been attended with so much success as to enable me now to transmit the result. But I find a singular confusion in the accounts kept by the public officers from whom I must necessarily derive my information, and a singular dilatoriness in...
3303From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 6 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] May 6, 1793 . “Mr. Winstanley who will deliver you this, is a Young Gentleman from England, who has lately turned his attention to Landscape painting.… He wishes to say something to you about your House now occupied by Mr. Trumball.” ALS , Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. Morris at this time was a Senator from Pennsylvania. William Winstanley. See H to——, April 10, 1793...
3304From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 1 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, June 1, 1795. On June 2, 1795, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I have this minute Received your favour of yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
3305From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [31 August 1782] (Hamilton Papers)
I send you herewith all the acts of the Legislature of this state since the Government has been organized; on the margin of which I have numbered all the acts relative to the matters you mention in your letter of July 81 to the states agreeable to the within list. I inclose you the papers of the last week. The indolence of some and the repugnancy of others make every trifle lag so much in the...
3306From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 13 July 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
I have this moment received your letter of the 2d. instant and as the post will set out on its return in half an hour I have little more than time to acknowlege the receipt of it. I shall tomorrow morning commence a journey to Poughkepsie, where the Legislature are assembled; and I will endeavour by every step in my power to second your views; though I am sorry to add without very sanguine...
3307From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 22 January 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, January 22, 1796. On February 10, 1796, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I was preparing to answer your favour of the 22d ulto.” Letter not found. ]
3308From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 21 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, January 21, 1797. On January 23, 1797, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “Your letter of the 21st inst. is just received.” Letter not found. ]
3309From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 6 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 6, 1789. On November 13, 1789, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I had the pleasure to receive your favor of the 6th Instant.” Letter not found. ]
3310From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 27 July 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, July 27, 1782. On August 28, 1782, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I have duly received your several Favors of the Twenty second & twenty Seventh of July, and tenth and thirteenth of August.” Letter of July 27 not found. ]
3311From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 9 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, June 9, 1796. On the June 17, 1796, Morris wrote to Hamilton and referred to “your favor of the 9th.” Letter not found. ]
3312From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 9 May 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, May 9, 1796. On May 10, 1796, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “Your letter dated April 9th. but which was written yesterday, I presume, came to hand this Morning.” [ Letter not found. ]
3313From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 22 May 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, May 22, 1797. On May 23, 1797, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “Your letter of yesterday is arrived.” Letter not found. ]
3314From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 4 February 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, February 4, 1797. On February 9, 1797, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “Your favour of the 4th only reached me Yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
3315From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [21 August 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the Honor to return the enclosed letter to Mr. Morris. Letter sent, in unidentified handwriting, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord.
3316From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 1 September 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
General Schuyler and other persons concerned with him have empowered me to act for them in the case of certain lands in Cosby’s Manor which you and others as Trustees of the Ringwood Iron Company have advertised for sale on the fifth instant. Though from what I learn of the matter, I am led to conclude that my friends have a valid legal title to the premises yet there are considerations which...
3317From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 12 October 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, October 12, 1782. On October 23, 1782 , Morris wrote to Hamilton: “I have received your favors of the 9th. and 12th. Instant.” Letter of October 12 not found. ]
3318From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 1 June 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, June 1, 1797. On June 2, 1797, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “Your letter of yesterday is this moment recd.” Letter not found. ]
3319From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 30 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 30, 1790. On April 4, 1790, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “Mr. B. Livingston delivered me your favour of the 30th. Ulto.” Letter not found. ]
3320From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 10 August 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, August 10, 1782. On August 28, 1782, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I have duly received your several Favors of the Twenty second & twenty Seventh of July, and tenth and thirteenth of August.” Letter of August 10 not found. ]
3321From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 5 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 5, 1796. On March 6, 1796, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I am glad to see by your line of yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
3322From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 8 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 8, 1796. On March 12, 1796, Morris wrote to Hamilton and referred to “your letters of the 10th & 8th Inst.” Letter of March 8 not found. ]
3323From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [9 November 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
I wish to have the advantage of a conversation with you on certain public subjects, in the course of this week any afternoon or evening, after tomorrow, when you will be disengaged. If you will name a day for taking a family dinner with me, I shall think it the best arrangement; if this is not convenient, name an Evening and I will call upon you. The chief subjects will be additional funds for...
3324From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [9 October 1782] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you a hasty letter by the last post which arrived late and set out very soon after its arrival. Since that I have received two thousand dollars all in your bills on Mr. Swanwick in favour of Messrs. Sands & Co. One half the sum is in bills payable in February ⟨next⟩ exchanged by them for specie with one of the County treasurers. I am sensible there is an inconvenience in this in...
3325From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 20 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, June 20, 1796. In a letter dated June 27–30, 1796, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “Your favor of the 20th I have received.” Letter not found. ]
3326From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 20 November 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 20, 1797. On November 23, 1797, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I have this minute received your favour of the 20th inst.” Letter not found. ]
3327From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 18 May 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
I had this day the honor of receiving your letter of the 2d. instant and am much obliged by the mark of your confidence, which it contains; and to Col Stewart for his friendly intentions upon the occasion. My military situation has indeed become so negative that I have no motive to continue in it; and if my services could be of importance to the public in any civil line I should chearfully...
3328From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [30 April 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
I was among the first who were convinced, that an administration by single men was essential to the proper management of the affairs of this country. I am persuaded now it is the only resource we have to extricate ourselves from the distresses, which threaten the subversion of our cause. It is palpable that the people have lost all confidence in our public councils, and it is a fact of which I...
3329From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 10 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 10, 1796. On March 12, 1796, Morris wrote to Hamilton and referred to “your letters of the 10th and 8th Inst.” Letter of March 10 not found. ]
3330From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 14 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, December 14, 1795. On December 18, 1795, Morris wrote to Hamilton and referred to “Your friendly letter of the 14th.” Letter not found. ]
3331From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [25 June 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton wishes to converse with Mr. Morris on the subject of the 44 Shares of bank Stock but being unwell he will be obliged to Mr. Morris to call on him at his house sometime before he goes to Senate. AL , Montague Collection, MS Division, New York Public Library. For background to this letter, see H to Morris, March 19, 1790 (printed in this volume).
3332From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [26 October 1782] (Hamilton Papers)
I am honored with your letters of the 5th. 15th and 16th instant. The detail you have been pleased to enter into in that of the 5th exhibits very cogent reasons for confining yourself to pretty large denominations of notes. Some of them had occurred to me others had not; but I thought it my Duty to state to you the operations which that circumstance had, as in the midst of the variety and...
3333From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 26 May 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, May 26, 1796. On May 31, 1796, Morris wrote to Hamilton and referred to “your letter of the 26 Inst.” Letter not found. ]
3334From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [17 June 1782] (Hamilton Papers)
The letter, which you did me the honor to write me of the 4th. instant came to my hands too late to permit me to answer it by the return of the same post. The explanation you give of your intention in your late offer makes it an object that will fully compensate for the time it will deduct from my other occupations. In accepting it I have only one scruple, arising from a doubt whether the...
3335From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 29 August 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, August 29, 1797. On September 9, 1797, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your favour of the 29th.” Letter not found. ]
3336From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 7 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, July 7, 1795. On July 20, 1795, Morris wrote to Hamilton and referred to “your letter of the 7th of July.” Letter not found. ]
3337From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 15 April 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 15, 1783. On April 16 Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I have been duly honored with the Receipt of your favor of the fifteenth Instant.” Letter not found. ]
3338From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [18 March 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
I called at your house the Evening before you left Town to bid you adieu & was sorry that I was not so fortunate as to find you at home. I am now here with Mrs. Hamilton at her Fathers house where we shall remain till the beginning of June & then take up our abode at New York where I shall be at all times happy to have it in my power to render you any service or pleasure. Your steady friend...
3339From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 29 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed the suits brought with a view to try the validity of attachments of public stock to be discontinued—being satisfied agreeably to the opinions of the Attorney General and the Attorney of the District that such Attachments cannot be supported. I am Sir Your Obedient Servant Copy, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. Morris was United States Senator from Pennsylvania. For...
3340From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 8 March 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 8, 1797. On March 9, 1797, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I have this moment received yours of yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
3341From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 6 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October 6, 1795. On October 8, 1795, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your letter of the 6th.” Letter not found. ]
3342From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 7 September 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the inclosed ready for some time; but in hopes of receiving the returns of the certificates mentioned in memorandum B I delayed sending the present sketch. Having even received no answers from some of the parties who live at a distance from me, I suspect they have done their business in so disorderly a manner (to say nothing worse of it) that they are at a loss how to render the...
3343From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [19 March 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
I find that I cannot answer as soon as I expected. The absence of a Gentleman, who has taken a ride out of town, will probably postpone my decision till afternoon. The moment I am ready, you shall hear from me. Yrs. sincerely ALS (facsimile), sold by Charles Hamilton Autographs, Inc., April 23, 1970, Item 94. When this letter was written, Morris was a member of the United States Senate from...
3344From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 13 August 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
I promised you in former letters to give you a full view of the situation and temper of this state: I now sit down to execute that task. You have already in your possession a pretty just picture of the 1st drawn by the Legislature in perhaps too highly coloured in some places, but in the main true. It is the opinion of the most sensible men, with whom I converse, who are best acquainted with...
3345From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 21 September 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
The hurry in which I wrote to you by the last post, prevented my examining particularly the papers which I informed you I had received. On a more careful inspection of them, I found them not so complete as I had hoped. There is a general state[ment] of specific supplies; but the returns referred to in that [statement] for the particulars were by some mistake omitted. I have written for them,...
3346From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 26 December 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, December 26, 1797. On January 17, 1798, Morris wrote to Hamilton : “I have been a long time possessed of your letter of the 26 Decemr.” Letter not found. ]
3347From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, 22 July 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeable to my letter to you from Albany I came to this place and had an interview with a Committee of the Legislature in which I urged the several matters contained in your instructions. I strongly represented the necessity of solid arrangements of Finance, and, by way of argument, pointed out all the defects of the present system. I found every man convinced that something was wrong, but...
3348From Alexander Hamilton to Staats Morris, 4 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Navy has requested a guard of a Non Commissioned Officer and six men at the Ship Yards at Baltimore to protect from the fire the Sloops of War building there. You will please to furnish and keep up such a guard till further order, or till the completion of the object shall render the continuance unnecessary With consideration I am, Sir Yr. Obed S— ( ADf , Hamilton Papers,...
3349From Alexander Hamilton to Staats Morris, 22 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 22, 1800. “I have received your letter of the eighteenth instant. It has been matter of doubt whether the power of the Marshall to call out the Posse Comitatus includes that of demanding the assistance of any regular military force which may be within his district. It being matter of doubt the responsibility must rest upon the Marshall, and I shall not disapprove your conduct...
3350From Alexander Hamilton to Staats Morris, 27 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I am have received your letter of the twenty third inst., and am happy to observe glad to find that you have the instructions relative to the Marine prisoners have been carried into effect. It gives me great pain to hear of the death of Lieutenant Lawrance. In the immediate circumstances of the Post you will consider the health of the troops as the primary object, and neglect no measures which...