To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 May 1793

From Alexander Hamilton

[Philadelphia] May 2d 1793.

The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to enclose for the information of the President a Letter of the 26th of Feby from our Bankers at Amsterdam which came to hand yesterday.1

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1. In a letter to Hamilton of 26 Feb. 1793, the Dutch banking firm of Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard declined issuing a new loan to the United States, due to the recent French invasion of the Netherlands (Syrett, Hamilton Papers, description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends 14:166–67; JPP, description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends 125). Hamilton’s reply to this letter, dated 2 May, has not been identified (Syrett, Hamilton Papers, description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends 14:409). For American efforts to secure a new loan, see Hamilton to GW, 18 Mar., and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Conversations, 6–12 May 1793.

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Title: To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 May 1793
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
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Date: 2 May 1793

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Cite as: “To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 May 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-12-02-0405. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 12, 16 January 1793 – 31 May 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick and John C. Pinheiro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005, pp. 503–504.]

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