AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; two copies: National Archives We have received your Letters and wish it was in our Power to do more for officers in your Situation than We do, altho that amounts in the whole to a large Sum of Money. But as We have already lent you as much, as We have been able to lend to other officers of your Rank and in your Circumstances, we cannot, without a...
Mrs Adams requests the favor of an order from Mr Hamilton to receive from the Custom House a small Packet containing Childrens caps brought by Mr Oswald from Paris. UK-KeNA : Foreign Office.
3From Alexander Hamilton to William Hamilton, 2 May 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
Some days since I received with great pleasure your letter of the 10th. of March. The mark, it affords, of your kind attention, and the particular account it gives me of so many relations in Scotland are extremely gratifying to me. You no doubt have understood that my fathers affairs at a very early day went to wreck; so as to have rendered his situation during the greatest part of his life...
4From Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, 22 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with great pleasure that, at the request of Govenor Lewis, I send you the seeds now inclosed, being a part of the Botanical fruits of his journey across the continent: I cannot but hope that some of them will be found to add useful or agreeable varieties to what we now possess. these, with the descriptions of plants, which, not being in seed at the time, he could not bring, will add...
5Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, 7 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have a grandson, Tho s J. Randolph , now at Philadelphia , attending the Botanical lectures of Doct r Barton , and who will continue there only until the end of the present course. altho’ I know that your goodness has indulged D r Barton with permission to avail himself of your collection of plants for the purpose of instructing his pupils, yet as my grandson has a peculiar fondness for that...
6From Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, 1 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your friendly letter of Feb. 5. and was much gratified by the opportunity it gave me of being useful to you even on that small scale. I was retarded in the execution of your request by the necessity of riding myself to the only careful gardener on whom I have found I could rely, & who lives 3. miles out of town. it was several days before I could find leisure enough for...
7From Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, 22 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
A little reflection enabled me to understand the appearance of neglect which you were kind enough to mention to me the other day. it was in March 1797. you did me the honor of calling on me. I had then come up to Philadelphia only to take the oath of office. on that occasion I recieved the visits not only of every one in the city who had known me, but of great numbers who did not. the Senate...
8From Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, 31 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7th. came duly to hand, and the plants you are so kind as to propose to me will be thankfully recd. the little Mimosa Julibrissin you were so kind as to send me the last year is flourishing. I obtained from a gardener in this nbhd 2 plants of the paper mulberry; but the parent plant being male, we are to expect no fruit from them, unless your present should chance to be of...
9From Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, 6 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your nephew delivered safely to me the plant of the Chinese silk tree in perfect good order, and I shall nurse it with care until it shall be in a condition to be planted at Monticello. mr Madison mentioned to me your wish to recieve any seeds which should be sent me by Capt Lewis or from any other quarter of plants which are rare. I lately forwarded to mr Peale for the Philosophical society a...
10From George Washington to William Hamilton, 6 April 1784 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of the 20th of Feb. & pray you to accept my thanks for the information contained in it. I expect to be in Phila. the first of May, but if, in the meanwhile, you should be perfectly satisfied of the skill of Mr Turner and the efficiency of his work you would add to the favor already conferred on me by desiring him not to be engaged further than to yourself...
11From George Washington to William Hamilton, 15 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
If I recollect right, I heard you say when I had the pleasure of seeing you in Philadelphia, that you were about a Floor composed of a Cement which was to answer the purpose of Flagstones or Tiles, and that you proposed to variegate the colour of the squares in the manner of the former. As I have a long open Gallery in Front of my House to which I want to give a Stone, or some other kind of...