HAMILTON Letters: NYPL Digital Collection Loaded With A. Ham Correspondence

If author/star Lin-Manual Miranda has made one thing abundantly clear about America's first Secretary Of The Treasury in his musical Hamilton, it's that the man had an obsessive need to express himself. Young Alexander Hamilton became an indispensable asset to the creation of our country because of the strength of his writing.

If the smash-hit musical has you obsessing over the Ten Dollar Founding Father, you may want to visit the New York Public Library's Digital Collections, where dozens of pieces of correspondence written by Alexander Hamilton can be studied and perused.

A collection acquired from combining gifts and purchases from various sources, highlights include letters to President Washington, dated 1796, concerning the writing of Washington's Farewell Address to the nation and a personal letter to his wife Eliza Hamilton (see below) dated 1803 giving instructions for property improvements at their home.

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From the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights comes a wildly inventive new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: AlexanderHamilton. Tony and Grammy Award winnerLin-Manuel Miranda wields his pen and takes the stage as the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is.

From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelongHamiltonfriend and foe,Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become. Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.