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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) to william duer - The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 9
to william duer - Alexander Hamilton, The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 9 [1774]Edition used:The Works of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Henry Cabot Lodge (Federal Edition) (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). In 12 vols. Vol. 9.
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- Miscellaneous Papers
- Defence of the Funding System
- The Assumption of the State Debts ( Continued From Vol. Viii .)
- Private Correspondence
- To Edward Stevens 1
- To Tileman Cruger 1
- To the Provincial Congress of New York. 1
- To the Provincial Congress
- To the Honorable Convention of New York
- To the Provincial Congress
- To Gouverneur Morris, Robert Livingston, and William Allison, Esqs. 1
- To Gouverneur Morris, Etc.
- To the Committee of the New York Convention
- To Gouverneur Morris, Etc.
- To the Committee of the New York Convention
- To the Committee of the New York Convention
- To William Livingston 2
- To William Livingston
- To William Duer. 1
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To Robert R. Livingston 1
- To Dr. Hugh Knox 1
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To Robert R. Livingston
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To the Honorable John Hancock President of Congress
- To the President of Congress
- To the President of Congress
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To General Gates
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To General Gates
- To Washington
- To General Putnam
- To Governor George Clinton 2
- To Governor George Clinton 3
- To William Duer, M.C. 1
- To Lafayette
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Elias Boudinot 1
- To Lord Stirling (?) 2
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Elias Boudinot
- To Elias Boudinot
- To Baron Steuben
- Narrative of an Affair of Honor Between General Lee and Col. Laurens 1
- To the Honorable John Jay, President of Congress
- To Miss Livingston 1
- To Baron Stebuen
- To Otho H. Williams 1
- To Major Lee Or, In His Absence, Capt. Mclane
- To Col. David Henley 1
- To Col. John Brooks 1
- To Dr. William Gordon 1
- To James Duane 3
- To Baron Steuben
- To James Duane
- To Colonel John Brooks
- To John Laurens 2
- To James Duane
- To James Duane
- Du Portail and Hamilton to Washington 1
- To John Laurens
- To Doctor William Gordon
- To Washington
- To Baron Steuben
- To James Duane
- To General Greene
- To Baron Steuben
- To Washington
- To the Chevalier De Ternay 1
- To Baron Steuben
- To Baron Steuben
- To General Anthony Wayne
- To Baron Steuben
- To Miss Schuyler 1
- To Washington
- To General Greene
- To Miss Schuyler
- To Miss Schuyler
- To John Laurens 1
- To Isaac Sears 1
- To James Duane
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Philip Schuyler 1
- To General Greene
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Mrs. Hamilton
- To Washington
- To Mrs. Hamilton
- To Mrs. Hamilton
- To Mrs. Hamilton
- To Lafayette
- To Mrs. Hamilton
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Richard K. Meade 2
- To Robert Morris
- To General Knox
- To Robert Morris
- To Comfort Sands 1
- To Robert Morris
- To Governor Clinton
- To Robert Morris
- To Governor Clinton
- To the County Treasurers
- To Robert Morris
- To John Laurens 2
- To Governor Clinton
- To Robert Morris
- To Colonel Richard K. Meade
- To Robert Morris
- To the County Treasurers
- To Robert Morris
- To Timothy Pickering 1
- To Robert Morris
- To Robert Morris
- To Robert Morris
- To Robert Morris
- To Robert Morris
- To De Noailles 2
- To General Greene
- To Robert Morris
- To Lafayette
- To the Governor of Rhode Island 1
- To Governor Clinton
- To Governor Clinton
- To Washington
- To Governor Clinton
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Governor Clinton
- To Governor Clinton
- To John Dickinson 1
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To Mrs. Hamilton
- To John Jay
- To Governor Clinton
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Governor Clinton
- To the Honorable Thomas Mifflin, President of Congress
- To John Barker Church 1
- To Thomas Fitzsimmons 1
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To De Chastellux 1
- To His Brother, James Hamilton—st. Thomas
- To Israel Wilkes 2
- To Washington
- To Nathaniel Hazard
- To Messrs. Semphill & Co.
- To John Thomas, Esq., Sheriff of Westchester
- To Washington
- To ——————— 1
- To Major Peirce
- To Auldjo
- To Rufus King 1
- To Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth 2
- To Rufus King
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To Gouverneur Morris
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To John Sullivan, Esq., President of the State of New Hampshire
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To Nathaniel Chipman 1
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To Washington
- To Samuel Broome 1
- To Governor Wm. Livingston
- To Washington
- To Theodore Sedgwick 1
- To Nathaniel Chipman
- To Theodore Sedgwick
- To Washington
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To Theodore Sedgwick
- To Rufus King
- To Oliver Wolcott
- To Lafayette
- To James Madison, Jr.
- To Washington
- To Timothy Pickering
- To Col. R. H. Harrison 2
- To Henry Lee 1
- To William Duer
- To Ædanus Burke 1
- To Timothy Pickering
- To Winn
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To John Jay
- To Washington
- To William Seton 1
- To Washington 1
- To Washington
- To Washington
- To Benjamin Goodhue 1
- To Mrs. Martha Walker
- To Rufus Ring
- To Rufus Ring
- To Timothy Pickering
- To William Seton
- To William Seton (private.)
- To William Duer
- To William Seton
- To William Seton
- To the President, Directors, Etc., of the Bank of New York
- To William Seton (private.)
- To William Seton (private.)
- To a Friend
- To Washington
- To General Knox
- To William Seton
- To Philip Hamilton 1
- To Nicholas Gouverneur 2
- To Gulian Verplanck and Others
- To William Seton
- To William Duer 1
- To William Seton (private)
- To William Seton (private.)
- To William Seton (private.)
- To the Directors and Company of the Bank of New York
- To William Duer
- To William Seton
- To William Duer
- To William Seton
- To Colonel Edward Carrington 1
- To General Otho H. Williams
- To Gouverneur Morris
- Senators
- Representatives
- To Colonel Heth 1 and Others
- To William Seton (private.)
- To Rufus King
- To Elias Boudinot
- To Washington
to william duer
Aug. 17, 1791. My Dear Friend:
I have received your two letters of the 12th and 10th.
The subscription-book for the Manufacturing Society did not remain with me nor with either of the two gentlemen who came on with me. Is it with neither of those who accompanied you? If it is not, it must have been left at Brunswick, and you will do well to write to some trusty person there to look it up and send it to you. I am impatient for the alterations which were agreed upon, and a list of the subscribers.
La Roche may go to Scioto, if he can be back in the time you mention.
I fear that in the hurry of writing my letter on the subject of bank scrip, I must have expressed myself more strongly than was intended.
The conversation here was: “Bank scrip is getting so high as to become a bubble,” in one breath; in another: “’t is a South-Sea dream”; in a third: “There is a combination of knowing ones at New York to raise it as high as possible by fictitious purchases, in order to take in the credulous and ignorant”; in another: “Duer, Constable, and some others are mounting the balloon as fast as possible. If it don’t soon burst, thousands will rue it,” etc., etc.
As to myself, my friend, I think I know you too well to suppose you capable of such views as were implied in those innuendoes, or to harbor the most distant thought that you could wander from the path either of public good or private integrity. But I will honestly own I had serious fears for you—for your purse and for your reputation; and with an anxiety for both, I wrote to you in earnest terms. You are sanguine, my friend. You ought to be aware of it yourself and to be on your guard against the propensity. I feared lest it might carry you further than was consistent either with your own safety or the public good. My friendship for you and my concern for the public cause were both alarmed. If the infatuation had continued progressive, and any extensive mischiefs had ensued, you would certainly have had a large portion of the blame. Conscious of this I wrote to you in all the earnestness of apprehensive friendship.
I do not widely differ from you about the real value of bank scrip. I should rather call it about 190, to be within bounds, with hopes of better things, and I sincerely wish you may be able to support it at what you mention. The acquisition of too much of it by foreigners will certainly be an evil.
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