record number: 091853

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Dates:

25 Sep. 1798

Original paper slip text:25 Sept. 1798.

Author's location:

Mount Vernon,

Original paper slip text:Mount Vernon

Author:

George Washington

Original paper slip text:G[eorge] Washington

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Recipient:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Length:

18 p.

Notes:

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
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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 391

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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Washington, Papers, Retirement S

Original paper slip text:Printed: Washington, Papers, Retirement Series, 3:36–44

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The Papers of George Washington: Retirement Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, Edward G. Lengel, and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1997–1999
4 vols.

Washington Writings Fitzpatrick

Original paper slip text:Printed: Washington, Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick, 36:453–462

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.

Steiner McHenry

Original paper slip text:Printed (in part): Steiner, McHenry, p. 340.

Bernard Christian Steiner, The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry, Secretary of Ward under Washington and Adams, Cleveland, 1907.

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