Original paper slip text:25 Sept. 1798.
Original paper slip text:Mount Vernon
- See also DLC:Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Vol. 32.
- "At pp.5063-5064: 'Extract of a Letter'...Recounting the high qualifications of Alexander Hamilton--essential to a great military character--and declaring that Hamilton's loss would be irreparable. With the following notations as to the provenance of the extract:Taken from the original. P.C.New York, May 23, 1811: The above was extracted of a letter...was copied from the original by myself, at the desire of General Hamilton. Philip Church." (Adams Papers Office files, Box 5, Order 15 of NP Search). --SEG, 2/17/2010
- Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 9/18/2015
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Original paper slip text:Printed: Washington, Papers, Retirement Series, 3:36–44
Full citation:
The Papers of George Washington: Retirement Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, Edward G. Lengel, and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1997–1999
4 vols.
Original paper slip text:Printed: Washington, Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick, 36:453–462
Full citation:
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, D.C., 1931–1944
39 vols.
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(extract only) New England Palladium, Boston, 8 May 1801. Extract concerns Hamilton character and military qualifications.
Original paper slip text:Printed (in part): Steiner, McHenry, p. 340.
Full citation:
Bernard Christian Steiner, The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry, Secretary of Ward under Washington and Adams, Cleveland, 1907.
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