(HAMILTON ALEXANDER) Issues of the Balance and Columbian Rep

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(HAMILTON, ALEXANDER.) Issues of the Balance and Columbian Repository on the death of Hamilton. Volume III, #29-31. 3 issues, each 8 pages, 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, disbound; minimal wear. Hudson, NY, 17 to 31 July 1804

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The 17 July issue offers a brief first report of Hamilton's death on the issue's 7th page, apparently added just as they were going to press. It is laid out between mourning bars below a somber tombstone woodcut. It notes that "the gentlemen of the bar, who were attending the Circuit at Claverack . . . unanimously agreed to wear a crape on the left arm for one month, as a token of their regard for Gen. Hamilton." The next week's issue offers 4 pages of tributes and the correspondence of Burr and Hamilton. The 31 July issue includes Hamilton's will and the oration delivered at his funeral.