From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, 4 June 1793

To Edmond Charles Genet

Treasury Department
June 4. 1793

Sir

Absence from Town, occasionned by circumstances of ill health, prevented my receiving the letter, which you did me the honor to write me yesterday,1 till today.

I shall with pleasure conform to the arrangement you indicate, for the future payments of the monies destined for the acquittal of the Drafts of the Colony of St Domingo, according to the order of payment settled with your predecessor.2

Very respectfully I have the honor to be Sir Your obedient servant

Alexander Hamilton

The Minister Plenipotentiary
of the French Republic

ALS, Arch. des Aff. Etr., Corr. Pol., Etats-Unis description begins Transcripts or photostats from the French Foreign Office deposited in the Library of Congress. description ends , Supplement Vol. 20.

1. Letter not found, but see extract printed under date of June 3, 1793.

2. See the introductory note to George Latimer to H, January 2, 1793, and H to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, January 13, 1793, note 2.

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Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, 4 June 1793
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Genet, Edmond Charles
Date: 4 June 1793

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Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, 4 June 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-14-02-0353. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 14, February 1793 – June 1793, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, p. 517.]

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