HAMILTON ALEXANDER Letter Signed as Secretary of the Treasur

Sale 2123 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 9,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. Letter Signed, as Secretary of the Treasury, to Thomas Willing, President of the Bank of the United States, requesting that "ten thousand Dollars in specie" be prepared which may be needed to send to the Comissioner of Loans of Virginia. 1 page, folded 4to sheet with integral address leaf. Hamilton penned a postscript, "It will oblige me that it be put up in such package or packages as will be least liable to discovery." Treasury Department, 24 March 1792

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

"I shall probably have occasion to send to the Commissioner of Loans of Virginia, ten thousand dollars in Species, by the early stage on Monday morning and I request that this sum may be held ready in gold this afternoon before the close of the Bank or may be in a situation to be delivered at seven on Monday morning ."