Are there surviving letters written by Alexander Hamilton to Francisco de Miranda? Where can I read them?

Question

Alexander Hamilton, US first Secretary of the Treasury, met Francisco de Miranda in the US, it seems they kept in touch through the years writing to each other. Miranda traveled throughout Europe, garnering support for the independence of Spanish America. He had made friends with leaders, such as British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and Catherine the Great of Russia. As a general in the Spanish Army, Miranda took part in military operations on four continents. In the American Revolutionary War, he commanded Spanish troops aiding American insurgents in Florida and Mississippi. While in the United States, he met with, among others, George Washington, Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. He had a home in London where he married a British lady and had two children. I am looking for letters or any other document that can proove they actually were epistolary friends. If those letters exist, where can I see them?

Answer 1

Try the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (enter NUCMC in Google, Yahoo or address line). When that opens you will find two venues or search possibilities. Enter Hamilton, then Miranda for each. Listings will usually name correspondents for each person.

Possibly some letters, if any exist, are held in European or English repositories. But try NUCMC first.

If you find such letters, then you will have to identify the repository and then write or email for photocopies of the letters in which you are interested. You will pay a fee for such copies.

Answer 2

There is a document but it is in a book:
TO FRANCISCO MIRANDA — NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 1798.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/BookSetToCPage.php?recordID=0249.10

You might be able to contact the library and see if they can help you further. Good luck :)

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