551Receipt from George Parkinson, 30 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Received from Alexander Hamilton Esquire Forty eight Dollars, being for three months subsistence to wit; from the 20th April 1791 to the 20th instant. DS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Parkinson, an English mechanic, came to America in 1790. With the support of Tench Coxe he drew up plans for a flax-spinning machine and secured a patent for it. In December, 1791, H appointed him a...
552To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 31 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I gave your letter addressed to Mrs Warren into the hands of her husband, and tho, you inform me, something pretty was in it, I cannot believe it was a love letter. I told him that I was desired to subscribe for you to her poetical work. I shall take half a dozen Books, which, I presume, will be as much poetry as you will consume, and will carry the compliment as far as it will bear with any...
553To Alexander Hamilton from Elizabeth Hamilton, 31 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, July 31, 1791. On August 10, 1791, Hamilton wrote to Elizabeth Hamilton : “I received your precious letters of the 31 of July & 3d. of August.” Letter of July 31 not found. ]
554Introductory Note: Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank, [23 February 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
There are at least eight manuscript versions of this famous document. One of these is an incomplete draft in Hamilton’s handwriting. The other seven are copies. The two versions that are printed below are the draft and that copy which it is assumed is the final version that was sent to George Washington. The seven copies of this document are located as follows: 1. Copy, Mr. John R. Dillard,...