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HAMILTON’S WORKS.
VOL. I
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HAMILTON.
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THE WORKS
OF
ALEXANDER HAMILTON;
COMPRISING
HIS CORRESPONDENCE,
AND
HIS POLITICAL AND OFFICIAL WRITINGS,
EXCLUSIVE OF THE FEDERALIST,
CIVIL AND MILITARY.
PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS DEPOSITED INTHE DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
BY ORDER OF
THE JOINT LIBRARY COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS.
EDITED BY
JOHN C. HAMILTON,
AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE OF HAMILTON.”
VOL. I.
NEW-YORK:
JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER, 49, 51 & 53 ANN-STREET.
M.DCCC.L.
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Joint Committee of the Library of Congress.
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE.
JAMES A. PEARCE, of Maryland, Chairman.
JAMES M. MASON, of Virginia.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, of Mississippi.
ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE.
ISAAC E. HOLMES, of South Carolina.
HORACE MANN, of Massachusetts.
ALFRED GILMORE, of Pennsylvania.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
HAMILTON TO EDWARD STEVENS.
St. Croix, Nov. 11, 1769.
This serves to acknowledge the receipt of yours per Capt.Lowndes, which was delivered me yesterday. The truth ofCaptains Lightbowen and Lowndes’ information is now verifiedby the presence of your father and sister, for whose safearrival I pray, and that they may convey that satisfaction toyour soul that must naturally flow from the sight of absentfriends in health; and shall, for news this way, refer you tothem. As to what you say respecting your soon having thehappiness of seeing us all, I wish for an accomplishment of yourhopes, provided they are concomitant with your welfare, otherwisenot; though I doubt whether I shall be present or not,for, to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent,so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or thelike, to which my fortune condemns me