From Alexander Hamilton to John Adams, 2 April 1794
From Alexander Hamilton
Philadelphia April 2d. 1794.
[. . . .] the Vice President—sends him a memoir which is the work of a Mr. La Rocque a French Gentleman who is said to be charged with exploring the ground for extensive speculations in our vacant lands &c and which the Author is desirous of having placed under the eye of the Senate— How this can be done the Vice President can best judge or whether at all.1
RC and enclosure (DNA:RG 46, Records of the U.S. Senate); docketed: “Legis: 1st: Sess: 3d: Cong: / Communication / to the Vice President / from the Secy of the / Treasury relative to a / work of Mr. La Rocque / April 2d: / 1794.” Some loss of text due to a torn manuscript.
1. Hamilton enclosed André Jean La Rocque’s unpublished essay “Mémoire sur la situation politique des Etats Unis, relativement à leur dette publique et leur agriculture.”