1From Alexander Hamilton to John Rutledge, Junior, 4 January 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
My extreme anxiety about the ensuing election of President by the House of Representatives will excuse to you the liberty I take in addressing you concerning it without being consulted by you. Did you know Mr. Burr as well as I do, I should think it unnecessary. With your honest attachment to the Country and correctness of views, it would not then be possible for you to hesitate, if you now do...
2Enclosure: James A. Bayard to John Rutledge, Junior, 8 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving upon my return to Wilmington after an absence of three weeks the letter you were so obliging as to write me previous to your departure from New Castle. I felt in an equal degree with yourself the surprize which you manifested at the late conduct of our President. The point of understanding subsisting between him and Mr. Jefferson it is scarcely possible to...