1Plan for a Legion, [5–15 July 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
To determine what is proper to be done it is necessary preliminarily to contemplate a fundamental...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 9 July 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I arrived here, My Dear Betsey, on Saturday in good health & not much fatigued. But I was...
3From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [8 July 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I was much surprized on my arrival here to discover that your nomination had been without any...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, [3 July 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I lose no time in answering your letter of the first instant. I am altogether at a loss to...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [29 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I have this moment seen a Bill brought into the Senate intitled a Bill to define more...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [28 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Col Burr sets out today for Philadelphia. I have some reasons for wishing that the administration...
7From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [25 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I understand that the Collector of Philadelphia will speedily offer his resignation & that...
8From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 22 June 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I believe my beloved that I omitted to write by the last Post thinking it would not find you at...
9Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and Ebenezer Stevens to James McHenry, [14 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
We have carefully attended to the subjects presented to our consideration, by your note of...
10For the Gazette of the United States, [13 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Every day brings fresh confirmations of the truth of the prediction to our Envoys, that the...
11From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [8 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
This is the third time I have written to my love since her departure. I continue to enjoy good...
12From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, [8 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Though I scarcely think it possible that the British Administration can have given the orders...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, [7 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
As McHenry will probably have left Philadelphia, before this reaches that place, I take the...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, [6 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Official information & the public papers will give you all the information I could give of the...
15From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [5 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote to you, My beloved Eliza, by the Monday’s Post. You will be glad to hear that your dear...
16From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [5 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
The answer from The President to the Commander in Chief &c of New Jersey contains in the close a...
17Enclosure: Further Measures Adviseable to Be Taken without Delay, [5 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Further measures adviseable to be taken without delay I To authorise the President to proceed...
18Call for a Meeting, [4 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Card. The officers of the late army and navy of the United States are requested to meet at...
19From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 3 June 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been extremely uneasy, My beloved Eliza, at the state of health and state of mind in which...
20From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 2 June 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I have before me your favour of the 27. of May. The suggestion in my last was an indigested...
21From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [2 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I received from you not long since a letter on the subject of a fit person for naval Agent which...
22From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, [1 June 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Our citizens are extremely anxious that some further measures for their defence should take...
23Conveyance from Alexander Hamilton, Elizabeth Hamilton, Isaac Bronson, and Ann Bronson to John B. Church, 24 May 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, May 24, 1798. Convey two and one-half lots of land in New York City to Church. Copy,...
24For The Time Piece, [22 May 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
A most unprovoked & wanton attack upon me appeared in the Time pi[e]ce of yesterday under the...
25From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 May 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
At the present dangerous crisis of public affairs, I make no apology for troubling you with a...
26From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, [17 May 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Of the sum deposited in the Office of the B of the U States in my name in trust for Louis LeGuen...
27From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, [17 May 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the instant. Not having seen the law which provides the Naval...
28From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Varick, [4 May 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
A friend of mine has a sudden and unexpected call for 5000 Dollars which I am anxious to assist...
29From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, [1 May 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
It is a great while since I received a line from you—nor indeed have I deserved one. The vortex...
30A French Faction, [April 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
There is a set of men, whose mouths are always full of the phrazes British Faction, British...
31From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [April 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you for your last letter. The opinion with regard to the conduct of the President is very...
32From Alexander Hamilton to Marquis de Lafayette, 28 April 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I was very happy, My dear Marquis to receive lately a letter from you. It inclosed one from...
33From Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 24 April 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your two favours of the 19th instant. I feel as I ought the mark of confidence...
34The Stand No. VII, [21 April 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
The dispatches from our envoys have at length made their appearance. They present a picture of...
35From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Van Vechten, 20 April 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 20, 1798. “I wrote to you from N Haven on the subject of two suits Low Adsm...
36The Stand No. VI, [19 April 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
The inevitable conclusion from the facts which have been presented is, that Revolutionary France...
37The Stand No. V, [16 April 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
To estimate properly the conduct of revolutionary France towards the United States the...
38The Stand No. IV, [12 April 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
In the pursuit of her plan of universal empire, the two objects which now seem chiefly to occupy...
39The Stand No. III, [7 April 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
In reviewing the disgusting spectacle of the French revolution, it is difficult to avert the eye...
40The Stand No. II, [4 April 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
The description of Vice , by a celebrated poet, may aptly be applied to the Revolutionary...
41From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, [March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
It is a great while, My Dr. friend, since I have written to you a line. You will not I am sure...
42[Marcellus No. I and No. II], [31 March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Gazette of the United States, and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser , March 31, 1798. On April 5,...
43Account with Robert H. Dunkin, [30 March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Upon an Order of R H Dunkin & Wife dated the 14 of March for £384.10 NYC—I have paid Mrs. Watkins...
44The Stand No. I, [30 March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
The enlightened friend of America never saw greater occasion of disquietude than at the present...
45From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, 27 March 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I have this moment received your two favours of the 25th. I am delighted with their contents; but...
46From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, [23 March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I understand that the Senate have called upon the President for papers. Nothing certainly can be...
47From Alexander Hamilton to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, [20 March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
On my return from Albany, I received a letter referring to one I sometime since received from...
48From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, 17 March 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I make no apology for offering you my opinion on the present state of our affairs. I look upon...
49From Alexander Hamilton to Theodore Sedgwick, [1–15 March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
In my opinion these things— The President ought to make a solemn and manly communication to...
50From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [1 March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
This, My beloved Eliza, is the third letter I have written to you since I left—but I am still...