I have lately received a letter from Mr Christopher Hughes intimating the wish of your excellency to place in your collection of manuscripts specimens of the handwriting of some of our most illustrious¹ Citizens. It affords me great pleasure to gratify this wish as far as it is in my power, and I have now the honor to enclose to Mr Hughes for you, letters from the following personages who have performed distinguished parts in the Military & political transactions of our Country—viz.