[Pages of this document are noted as wholly or in part illegible in the microfilm record.] Baltimore 22 Aug^t. 1800 My dear Hamilton. Do you properly enough [undecipherable] [undecipherable] right to take in what our friends [undecipherable] [undecipherable] doing to the East ward? [undecipherable] forgive me[,] I [confess?] [undecipherable] about him calculations, or deliver myself [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and revives? I see nothing [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on account of [Script?]. [undecipherable] the [action?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of consisting of [Tory?] members of [Mili?][undecipherable] [not?] to [animate?] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of each [after?]" Does the conduct of our [undecipherable] members of Congress [diff?] matters [undecipherable] on this [instruct?] from the [undecipherable]? Those gentlemen I am told keep up each others [undecipherable] and expectations by [working?] [undecipherable] to cause them. Perhaps, generally speaking they can do little more. and that certainly is doing very little to obtain [undecipherable] & retirement for a man whom they know absolutely exhausts and kills himself by being President. Are there good grounds for believing, that General Pinckney will [have?] all the votes to the Eastward of New York, and that Mr. Adams will [fall?] short [undecipherable] nine votes [undecipherable] the whole number. [undecipherable]? [will?] General Pinckney get any votes in New York? I have [undecipherable] flattered myself that he might. And will he get more votes in New Jersey than the man in [possession?]? In Maryland, the probability is, that, should the electors be chosen by [undecipherable] to Legislature, each of the candidates (Mr A. & Gen P.) will [have?] the whole number of votes; if by the people under the existing "distinct laws, each may fall short of [undecipherable] three of the whole number. Judge Moore of N. Carolina (one of the Judges [of?] the [Supreme?] Court of the U.S.) told me the other day [undecipherable] that the federal electors in that State would vote for Mr. Adams & G[en]. Pinckney. In South Carolina, according to [late?] information [from?] Mr. [DeSaussure?], the probability is, [undecipherable] the federal or antifederal interest [undecipherable]: [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Pinckney?] will [contain?] the [whole?] number of votes. [undecipherable] who is [undecipherable] from Georgia mentioned to me, that [undecipherable] [he thinks?] General Pinckney [undecipherable] [not?] [take?] all the votes of Georgia. Give me, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the subject: and believe me, always [undecipherable] [undecipherable] friend & [to Alexr Hamillen. 22 Aug] Alexr [undecipherable: Homullan?] Jr