Stolen 1780 letter by Alexander Hamilton resurfaces at auction
(WorldNews Health)

A letter written by Alexander Hamilton during the Revolutionary War has resurfaced more than seven decades after the document was stolen from the Massachusetts Archives, federal authorities said. Advertising The letter, addressed to Hamilton´s good friend the Marquis de Lafayette, came to light last November when an auction house in Virginia notified the FBI after a South Carolina family tried to consign it for auction, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts by the U.S. attorney´s office. An auction house researcher had discovered that the letter matched a copy of the correspondence on Founders Online, a National Archives and Records Administration...