HAMILTON, ALEXANDER & AARON BURR]. HAMILTON. Autograph letter signed ("A. Hamilton") as Secretary of the Treasury, TO SECRETARY OF WAR JAMES MCHENRY, New York, N.Y. 14 June 1799, 1½ pages, folio, closely written, slightly pale, small hole affecting one word. Important confidential letter written while Hamilton was in charge of organizing the Army and defense establishment during the "Quasi-War" with France. He responds to McHenry's suggestion of "different propositions that might be thrown into two Bills &...the idea of an incorporation of the several existing laws into one System. This idea is a good one, but to accomplish it with sufficient correctness would require several days...Besides this, I incline to the opinion that it will be best...to present the alterations and additions proposed independently -- that the progress of them may not be embarrassed by the consideration of an entire System, and I had even thought of a distribution into more than two divisions to secure at all events passage of some things. The organization on my plan would form one Bill...The Hospital Department would form another Bill. The provisional Army a Third....I do not exactly seize your idea about the Inspector of Fortifications, and therefore have proposed nothing on that point. Is it effective to have a distinct officer...? Or, may not the object be fulfilled by some one of the Engineers...?" He concludes by observing that "I do not lose sight of the idea of an Incorporation of the whole Military system into one law; but I believe you will...judge it advisable this a subsequent operation of greater leisure and care..." -- BURR, AARON, Vice-President . Autograph letter, unsigned, to his daughter Theodosia, at school; New York, 1 March 1794. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf in Burr's hand , praising his daughter's letter which "is in a pretty and familiar style, which I like & is the most suitable for letters, but you have degenerated again into that vulgar fault of bad spelling...Do you learn no Greek? or is it so little that you ashamed to put it in the journal...or do you keep it secret that you may surprise me...?" Together two items, both double-matted to display both sides and neatly framed . (2)
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER & AARON BURR]. HAMILTON. Autograph letter signed ("A. Hamilton") as Secretary of the Treasury, TO SECRETARY OF WAR JAMES MCHENRY, New York, N.Y. 14 June 1799, 1½ pages, folio, closely written, slightly pale, small hole affecting one word. Important confidential letter written while Hamilton was in charge of organizing the Army and defense establishment during the "Quasi-War" with France. He responds to McHenry's suggestion of "different propositions that might be thrown into two Bills &...the idea of an incorporation of the several existing laws into one System. This idea is a good one, but to accomplish it with sufficient correctness would require several days...Besides this, I incline to the opinion that it will be best...to present the alterations and additions proposed independently -- that the progress of them may not be embarrassed by the consideration of an entire System, and I had even thought of a distribution into more than two divisions to secure at all events passage of some things. The organization on my plan would form one Bill...The Hospital Department would form another Bill. The provisional Army a Third....I do not exactly seize your idea about the Inspector of Fortifications, and therefore have proposed nothing on that point. Is it effective to have a distinct officer...? Or, may not the object be fulfilled by some one of the Engineers...?" He concludes by observing that "I do not lose sight of the idea of an Incorporation of the whole Military system into one law; but I believe you will...judge it advisable this a subsequent operation of greater leisure and care..." -- BURR, AARON, Vice-President . Autograph letter, unsigned, to his daughter Theodosia, at school; New York, 1 March 1794. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf in Burr's hand , praising his daughter's letter which "is in a pretty and familiar style, which I like & is the most suitable for letters, but you have degenerated again into that vulgar fault of bad spelling...Do you learn no Greek? or is it so little that you ashamed to put it in the journal...or do you keep it secret that you may surprise me...?" Together two items, both double-matted to display both sides and neatly framed . (2)
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