4912. MADISON (James), Hamilton and.—[further continued].
Let me pray and beseech
you to set apart a certain portion of every post
day to write what may be proper for the public.
Send it to me while here [Philadelphia], and
when I go away I will let you know to whom
you may send, so that your name will be sacredly
secret. You can render such incalculable
services in this way, as to lessen the effect of
our loss of your presence here.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 281.
Ford ed., vii, 344.
(Pa.,
Feb. 1799)
