Found: Stolen Alexander Hamilton Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette

But one paper, a 1780 letter from Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette, remained missing for decades—until it surfaced recently in Virginia. Mark Pratt of the Associated Press reports that the precious document came to light last November, when a family from South Carolina tried to sell it to an auction house in Alexandria, Virginia; the letter had reportedly been in the possession of a relative who had died. Authorities believe that after it was stolen from the Massachusetts Archives, the letter ended up in the possession of a rare books and documents dealer in Syracuse, New York, who sold it to a member of the South Carolina family who tried to put it up for auction.

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