Alexander Hamilton, Autograph Letter, Signed

Description

Alexander Hamilton requests an accounting of funds from William Carmichael, ESQ.
In full:

To: “William Carmichael Esquire / Charge de Affairs of the US (at the Court of) Madrid.”

“It has been represented to me by the accounting officers of the Treasury that a regular account of all the monies which have been received by you from our Commissioners in Europe, or which have been paid by them by your direction, would be requisite in the examination and adjustment of the accounts of the said Commissioners.  I have therefore to request that you will furnish me with an account, comprising those objects, down to the 1st of November 1792.  As the document called for will be considered as an essential guide in the settlement which is contemplated, I shall make no apology for troubling you on the occasion.” 

William Carmichael (c. 1739–1795) was an American statesman and diplomat from Maryland during and after the Revolutionary War. He participated in Benjamin Franklin’s mission to Paris in 1776-8, represented Maryland in the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779, and was the principal diplomat for the United States to Spain from 1782 to 1794.  Carmichael was also involved in negotiations to free American mariners who had been taken captive by the Dey of Algiers, a situation that later led to the Barbary Wars. His great-nephew was the pro-Confederate judge and politician Richard Bennett Carmichael. 

Excellent; bold, clear writing and signature.  Conserved on rag board with surrounding mat, ready for framing.

Hamilton, Alexander. Autograph Letter, signed (almost) in full “Alexandr Hamilton” with paraph.  Treasury Department, Philadelphia:  28 August 1792.  Large 4to; 1p. + address leaf.