THE WEST INDIES, THE REVOLUTION, AND THE CONFEDERATION, 1769–1786
To Edward Stevens, November 11, 1769
To The Royal Danish American Gazette, September 6, 1772
A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress, December 15, 1774
To John Jay, November 26, 1775
The Danger of Trusting in Virtue
To John Laurens, c. April 1779
To John Laurens, January 8, 1780
“I Am Not Fit for This Terrestreal Country”
To Elizabeth Schuyler, August 1780
To James Duane, September 3, 1780
“The Defects of Our Present System”
To Elizabeth Schuyler, September 25, 1780
To Elizabeth Schuyler, October 2, 1780
To Margarita Schuyler, January 21, 1781
To Philip Schuyler, February 18, 1781
To James McHenry, February 18, 1781
Washington Will Repent His Ill-Humour
The Continentalist No. III, August 9, 1781
To George Washington, February 13, 1783
To James Hamilton, June 22, 1785
“I Feel All the Sentiment of a Brother”
FRAMING AND RATIFYING THE CONSTITUTION, 1787–1789
Plan of Government, c. June 18, 1787
Speech in the Constitutional Convention on a Plan of Government, June 18, 1787
To George Washington, July 3, 1787
Conjectures About the New Constitution, c. late September 1787
The Federalist No. 1, October 27, 1787
The Federalist No. 15, December 1, 1787
The Federalist No. 35, January 5, 1788
The Federalist No. 70, March 15, 1788
To James Madison, May 19, 1788
The Federalist No. 78, May 28, 1788
The Federalist No. 84, May 28, 1788
Speech in the New York Ratifying Convention on Interests and Corruption, June 21, 1788
To George Washington, September 1788
Convincing Washington to Serve
To George Washington, May 5, 1789
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, 1789–1795
To Henry Lee, December 1, 1789
“Suspicion Is Ever Eagle Eyed”
FROM Report on Public Credit, January 9, 1790
Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, February 23, 1791
To Philip A. Hamilton, December 5, 1791
“A Promise Must Never Be Broken”
To Edward Carrington, May 26, 1792
“A Faction Decidedly Hostile to Me”
An American No. I, August 4, 1792
To George Washington, September 9, 1792
Responding to a Plea for Peace
To an Unknown Correspondent, September 26, 1792
Draft of a Defense of the Neutrality Proclamation, c. May 1793
Pacificus No. I, June 29, 1793
To Andrew G. Fraunces, October 1, 1793
To Angelica Hamilton, c. November 1793
Tully No. III, August 28, 1794
To Angelica Church, October 23, 1794
“Wicked Insurgents of the West”
To Angelica Church, December 8, 1794
“A Politician, and Good for Nothing”
Memorandum on the French Revolution, 1794
To George Washington, February 3, 1795
FEDERALIST LEADER AND ATTORNEY, 1795–1804
To Rufus King, February 21, 1795
To Robert Troup, April 13, 1795
Memorandum on the Design for Seal of the United States, c. May 1796
To George Washington, July 30, 1796
A Draft of the Farewell Address
To William Hamilton, May 2, 1797
The “Reynolds Pamphlet,” August 25, 1797
To Elizabeth Hamilton, November 19, 1798
To Theodore Sedgwick, February 2, 1799
To James McHenry, March 18, 1799
Displaying Strength “Like a Hercules”
To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, December 22, 1799
To Martha Washington, January 12, 1800
“So Heart-Rending an Affliction”
To Theodore Sedgwick, May 10, 1800
Withdrawing Support from Adams
To William Jackson, August 26, 1800
“The Most Humiliating Criticism”
Rules for Philip Hamilton, 1800
To Gouverneur Morris, December 26, 1800
To John Rutledge Jr., January 4, 1801
To James A. Bayard, January 16, 1801
To Gouverneur Morris, February 29, 1802
To Benjamin Rush, March 29, 1802
To James A. Bayard, April 1802
The Christian Constitutional Society
To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, December 29, 1802
“Refuge of a Disappointed Politician”
To Elizabeth Hamilton, March 17, 1803
To Timothy Pickering, September 16, 1803
Explaining a Plan of Government
From Aaron Burr, June 18, 1804
From Aaron Burr, June 21, 1804
New Reasons for a Definite Reply
“Expressions Indecorous and Improper”
From Aaron Burr, June 22, 1804
“The Course I Am About to Pursue”
Response to a Letter from William P. Van Ness, June 28, 1804
Statement Regarding Financial Situation, July 1, 1804
To Elizabeth Hamilton, July 4, 1804
“Fly to the Bosom of Your God”
Statement Regarding the Duel with Burr, c. July 10, 1804
To Theodore Sedgwick, July 10, 1804
“Our Real Disease; Which Is Democracy”
To Elizabeth Hamilton, July 10, 1804
Joint Statement by William P. Van Ness and Nathaniel Pendleton, July 17, 1804
Statement by Nathaniel Pendleton, July 19, 1804