Item #44097 [Autograph] Signed Check of Charles D. Cooper, the New York Politician who Spurred the Hamitlon-Burr Rivalry to its Fateful Conclusion by his Published Letter. Alexander Hamilton, Charles D. Cooper.

[Autograph] Signed Check of Charles D. Cooper, the New York Politician who Spurred the Hamitlon-Burr Rivalry to its Fateful Conclusion by his Published Letter.

Albany: 1830. 1 sheet. 6 x 3 inches. Very good, closed tear through contents, remnant of paperclip, tear along edge, none affecting legibility. Item #44097

Dated December 11, 1830, for the amount of 53 dollars and 40 cents. Charles Dekay Cooper (1769-1831) was a New York politician, who in February 1804, wrote a letter to Philip Schuyler (Hamilton's father-in-law) detailing Hamilton's scathing remarks made against Burr at a dinner party Cooper attended. This letter was then published in the Albany Register. On June 18th 1804, Burr called Hamilton's attention to Cooper's newspaper article containing this expression: "I (Cooper), could detail a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr." Burr in his letter reminded Hamilton that "he must perceive the necessity of a prompt unqualified acknowledgment or denial of the use of these expressions." Considerable correspondence then followed between the two, but to no effect. Burr then sent a peremptory challenge to Hamilton, which being as promptly accepted, they met upon the Jersey shore in the early morning of the 12th of July, 1804. It ended in the death of Hamilton. Provenance: John Pierce, who was part owner of Pierce and Scopes, booksellers located at 59 Maiden Lane Albany, NY, who dealt in historical manuscripts among other items.

Price: $400.00

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