Long-missing Alexander Hamilton letter put on public display
This is the first time the public is getting a chance to see it since it was returned to the state after a lengthy court battle.
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This is the first time the public is getting a chance to see it since it was returned to the state after a lengthy court battle.
Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury who’s been getting renewed attention in recent years because of the hit Broadway musical that bears his name, wrote the letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat who served as a general in the Continental Army.
A letter written in 1780 by Alexander Hamilton that was stolen during World War 2 has been recovered just in time to be shown at a 4th of July exhibit at the Commonwealth Museum in Massachusetts.
The letter will go back on display, though not exactly in the room where it happened.
A letter was believed to have been stolen during World War II by a state archives worker, then sold privately.