The List of Appointments Has Filled Me with Dispiriting Feelings
Document 1799Despite the advice of friends that he has earned a rest, Gibbs expresses his disappointment at not being included in the list of appointments.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Despite the advice of friends that he has earned a rest, Gibbs expresses his disappointment at not being included in the list of appointments.
Date
01/21/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Boston
Repository
Collection
Document number
1799012190201
Note
Partially illegible.
Cited in Pickering to Hamilton, 08/21/1798.
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
Caleb Gibbs
men entered and omitted
General Washington
Secretary of War [McHenry]
the President [John Adams]
Major Rice
Mrs. Gibbs
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Major General Hamilton
officers
Notable locations
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Notable items
list of appointments
late war
application
disappointment of several officers in this quarter