From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 17 October 1789
To Sharp Delany1
Treasury Department
October 17th 1789
Sir
As some of the Circular Letters to the Collectors of the Different Ports containing an Instruction to receive Notes of the Bank of New York, as well as of that of North America2—may have been sent to you among others, either through hurry, or from its having been blended with other matters which were equally applicable to you—You will be pleased to understand that so much of any such instruction as relates to the Notes of New York is inapplicable to you, being inconsistent with the arrangements taken with the Bank of North America.3
I am Sir Your Obedient Servant
A Hamilton
Secy of the Treasury
Sharp Delany Esquire
Collector of the Customs
For Philadelphia
LS, Mr. Pierce Gaines, Fairfield, Connecticut.
1. This letter is referred to in Delany to H, October 16–31, 1789, note 3 ( , V, 448), where it is erroneously stated that Delany was mistaken concerning its date.
2. “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” September 22, October 14, 1789 ( , V, 394–95, 444–46).
3. This is a reference to the articles of agreement between William Duer, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Bank of North America for a loan of fifty thousand dollars. See H to Thomas Willing, September 13, 1789 ( , V, 370–71); Willing to H, October 1, 1789 ( , V, 416–19); H to Delany, September 13, 1789 (printed in this volume).