From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 7 March 1799
To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
New York March 7. 1799
I duly received My Dear Sir Your letter of the 17th of January.1 Accept my thanks for the remarks it contains on the plan for a Military School.2
We were extremely alarmed yesterday by the intelligence coming from Philadelphia of an accident to you at a Review. But an arrival here has greatly relieved us.3 We earnestly desire a contradiction. Affectly & truly yrs.
A H
General Pinckney
ALS, Pinckney Family Papers, Library of Congress.
1. Letter not found.
2. For this plan, see H to Louis Le Bègue Du Portail, July 23, 1798; Du Portail to H, December 9, 1798; H to James McHenry, December 26, 1798, note 2; McHenry to H, December 28, 1798, note 4.
3. This is a reference to the following item which appeared in The New-York Gazette and General Advertiser, March 7, 1799: “We have been at some pains to come at the source of the report of Gen. Pinckney’s being shot at Charleston—but cannot. We believe it to be a fabrication.”