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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON. - The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIV (1798-1799)
TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON. - George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIV (1798-1799) [1893]Edition used:The Writings of George Washington, collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890). Vol. XIV (1798-1799).
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- Note.
- The Writings of George Washington.
- 1798.
- To James Anderson.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Jeremy Belknap.
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Lloyd.
- To James Lloyd.
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Sir John Sinclair.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private and Confidential.]
- To Henry Knox.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To James Anderson.
- To James Mchenry. [private.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Henry Knox.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private and Confidential.]
- To William Vans Murray.
- To Jonathan Boucher.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To — Mcdowell. 1
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Alexander Spotswood.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private and Confidential.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private and Confidential.]
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To James Mchenry.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Henry Knox.
- To James Mchenry. [private and Confidential.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To G. W. Snyder. 1
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War.
- To Alexander Spotswood.
- To General Lafayette.
- To William Vans Murray. 1
- To David Stuart.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- 1799.
- To Patrick Henry. [confidential]
- To Bryan, Lord Fairfax.
- To James Washington.
- To David Stuart.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private].
- To Timothy Pickering.
- To Alexander Hamilton, Major General. [private.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [confidential.]
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Charles C. Pinckney, Major-general.
- To James Welch.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To John Marshall.
- To Alexander Hamilton, Major-general.
- To Archibald Blair. 2
- To John Trumbull.
- To Governor Jonathan Trumbull.
- To James Mchenry.
- To Robert Lewis.
- To Governor Jonathan Trumbull.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Alexander Hamilton, Major-general.
- To Lawrence Lewis.
- To Burges Ball.
- To William Vans Murray.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To James Anderson.
- River Farm
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- Extract From a Diary.
- Last Illness and Death. 1
- Particular Account of the Late Illness and Death of George Washington.
- Tobias Lear to William Augustine Washington.
- Tobias Lear to Col. Burges Ball.
- In Congress.
- Mrs. Washington to President Adams.
- Mrs. Washington to Governor Trumbull.
- The Will of George Washington. 1
- Appendix.
- To Lund Washington.
- The Washington Family.
- Washington’s Aides-de-camp.
TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Mount Vernon, 12 December, 1799. Sir,
I have duly received your letter of the 28th ultimo, enclosing a copy of what you had written to the Secretary of War, on the subject of a Military Academy.
The establishment of an Institution of this kind, upon a respectable and extensive Basis, has ever been considered by me as an object of primary importance to this Country; and while I was in the Chair of Government, I omitted no proper opportunity of recommending it, in my public speeches and other ways, to the attention of the Legislature. But I never undertook to go into a detail of the Organization of such an Academy; leaving this task to others whose pursuits in the paths of Science, and attention to the arrangements of such Institutions, had better qualified them for the execution of it. For the same reason I must now decline making any observations on the details of your plan; and as it has already been submitted to the Secretary of War, through whom it would naturally be laid before Congress, it might be too late for alterations if any should be suggested.
I sincerely hope that the subject will meet with due attention, and that the reasons for its establishment which you have so clearly pointed out in your letter to the Secretary, will prevail upon the Legislature to place it upon a permanent and respectable footing.
With very great esteem & regard, I am, &c.
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