BURR-HAMILTON DUEL REPORT: WASHINGTON'S NEPHEW'S COPY.


National Intelligencer, and Washington Advertiser, Vol IV, no DLXCII. Washington City: Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, July 23, 1804. 4 pp. Folio (530 x 335 mm). Disbound. Pages toned, dampstaining to right margins.Provenance: Lawrence Washington (ownership signature to p 1).INCREDIBLE WASHINGTON-HAMILTON ASSOCIATION ITEM: PUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF THE BURR-HAMILTON CORRESPONDENCE LEADING UP TO THE DUEL. On page 2, second column, and continuing for four more columns, is the series of letters between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr outlining their grievances with one another (originally published in the New York Post).. It begins with the June 18, 1804 letter of Burr asking Hamilton to disavow his recent criticism reported in Charles Cooper's published letter (in which he stated that Burr was dangerous and "ought not to be trusted with the reins of government"), which, in his lengthy response dated the 20th, Hamilton refuses to do. The paper also includes the letters from W.P. Van Ness, Burr's second, who conveyed letters between the two men, and who provides vital information about the growing argument between the two men. Eventually, Burr issued a challenge with Hamilton accepted.