1. Low, a prominent New York merchant, for whom H had on various occasions served as attorney, was seeking election as a delegate to the New York State convention to ratify the Constitution of the United States. See H to Gouverneur Morris, May 19, 1788 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (27 vols., New York and London, 1961–1987). description ends , IV, 650–52).