Name/Title
Letter from Robert Morris to Alexander Hamilton IIIEntry/Object ID
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Letter from Robert Morris to Alexander Hamilton IIISubject
Eastern railroad business, the Dream, theft of a carriage etc., City Fever “called Tiler Grip” (“Tyler’s Grippe” - influenza), celebration at the “Plains” of memorable battles with the British, continuing disability/illness of Uncle Bob’s wife, Uncle Phil and Bride in housekeeping, sister Fan + George had “a City Fever”, steamboats, railroads, Lewis managing farm, NYC expanding “in every direction”, issue of new pastor with Catholic “leanings” in his churchSubject Person/Organization
Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton III, George Lee Schuyler, Mary Morris Hamilton, Mary Morris Hamilton Schuyler, Angelica HamiltonSubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Mount Fordham, Albany, NY, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, NY, White Plains, NY, New York, NevisCollection
Hamilton CollectionCataloged By
Tara R. IacobellisCategory
Documentary Artifact
Communication Artifacts
Letter Details
Letter Date
Oct 27, 1843Postmark
Date and Time of Postmark
[POSTMARK - black ink, large rectangle with rounded corners] RECEIVED AND FORWARDED BY Y. ?. ?. R. G. BENTLEY U.S. CONSUL HAVRESender
Name
GrandpapaAddress
Alexander Hamitlon Esq’r
To the care of our Minister
Washington Ervin Esq’r
To Spain _
MadridAddressee
Name
Alexander Hamitlon Esq’rPrimary Language
EnglishTranscription
Transcription
Mount Fordham Oct 27, 1843
My Dr Boy
I most gratefully acknowledge last week having rec’d / your long and very interesting Letter peculiarly interesting as you / have been on the [Bed] of [??] sickness and that we are favoured by / your hand the best evidence of your complete recovery we have / all [were/been?] peculiarly favoured that as you from facts have been / extraordinarily Ill an immeasurable Blessing that we all have had / no knowledge of it until by your Hand of a perfect recovery / what pains and heart rending anxieties have [?been?] spared your / fond parents sisters and all the rest of us, a very grateful since / of Gratitude is felt and exprefsed by us all for this kind and all / most affectionate attention your [committing?] [^ by] [Re–??] at the / Hands of your ??-erable native Citizenry, there really appears a / fostering Benificent Hand of a Kind providence and as they / have been the Instruments in his Hands an affectionate / gratitude on our part at all times and occasion when so / happy as [^ to] offered an opportunity while on the subject of your / immediate family, you I promise know that your Father has put / his Farm from off his shoulders and am informed is now engaged / at the instance of George Schuyler in some way with the proprietor / of one of our Eastern Rail Roads has [^ or] for what you will execute / my Ignorance, Your Mother the two Girls Uncle + Aunt Tom I believe / in the Dream Earley in this month jaunted North spent two / Days at [10?] Point then visited every acquaintance on both sides of / the River to Hudson there dropped your Mother and the two Girls / they having business at Albany but finding a card stating / the short time in going to the great Falls Buffalow [sic] by the way of Troy / they go and attend to the Albany business on their return, but / during their absence a [marauding boat ferried?] at night Broke open / his Carriage House and carried off the splendid English Carriage / Harnice, and all his Coachmans cloths leaving him nothing / in but what he stood in, the Thieves have been detected some where / in our Western Country and the Harnise recovered, but the / Coachmans clothes found a more [??] [??] [sale?] and not so / conspicuous We have not seen your Mother an unusual length /
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Of time but hear of her good health and Spirits every few days / we saw Mary and [Lecky?] at Uncle Toms but a few Days ago / Tom and Fan are now in Town we are informed [lefsing?] their / Town House for I know not how long
This day and tomorrow our County knowing ones are at the / [Plains?] Commemorating in great nouse, expense, + splendor, the / memorable Foughts [^ battles] there between the British + our Army it must / however be but a [lefthanded?] Rejoicing as it [^ is] admitted that we / got the worst of it, your Uncles and Aunts of my family are all / as usual well, your Uncle Bobs wife excepted who is [^ as] you left her / and probably will never be less troublesome Rob’t is in good / Health and spirits all things considered, will of choice [??] or his / office in the Spring, we spent 3 Weeks with James and two with / W’m this last summer and all my grand children as promifsing / as Heart could wish, Uncle Phil and Bride are comfortably at / House Keeping and as that subject is probably a Hobby with / Mary and [??]’g you will be silent, your sister Fan + George who / suffered much with a City Fever called Tiler Grip have spent / much of their summer with your Mother and Eliza who is quite / snug in her little Cottage, George however [^ h]as been much away / medling in Steam Boats and Rail Roads of all which however / true I am unable at present to throw more light upon / I will now come Home Your GrandMother injoys a good / Health as best few of her Age 77. Lew and Emm[e/a]? are as well as / almost every day going some where will permit, they have / been in Town now this evening most of 3 days but last the / least Master Fordham is certainly unequaled in his generation, / if exprefsion means anything it means every thing that / can with confidence be built upon as amiable, he begins / to step and say some few words and at this early period / shews all [Horse?] Lewis is improving his farm and / out Building with much Taste, he has [now?] [Housed?] [rising?] / 800 BUshels of first [red] potatoes, and his Corn Crop far
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Exceeds in extent and quality anything previous our high Bridge / crossing the [He–m?] will when finished far exceed any thing in this / new world. Lewis has so managed with that institution who from / necessaty make an abundance of manure that he is making a / perfect garden of his 109 [c–s?] which excepting his actual garden / will be splendid mowing ground, promising at this distance from / Town that produce will be much cheaper made and find at all times / a better and a more ready Market more particularly as our City is / extremely growing in every direction and [^ in] importance and the daily / increase of Rail Roads and Steam Boats can abundantly glute our / markets with every species of produce with more [commonsence?] and less / expense and Risque than that ever requested article Hay but I forget / that all this Rigmarole story is not in your line, no less would yours be / in mine, but as I am out of my [path?birth?] permitt me to [???ese] you / with something new in both our lines, this last summer a Clerical / State Convention was held and d-[??]-full to state that our Clerical and / Lay Members generally took opposite sides / with some warmth and which as might be / expedited was a [briech?] not easily [handed?], our / Bishop saw fitt to Ordain a young man / Educated regularly in our Theological Seminary who from / unquestionable evidence had a strong leaning to Catholic principals / and has since made confessions confirmative of that fact and who / is now ordained to preach in our Church and who now admitts / that he has acted and been governed under the advice of Bishop / [Haws?], under the Idea that in that situation he could be of more / service to send [Hi-?s] Catholic Institution, now this I consider a / serious division and a [remedy] quite our of the question our / Bishop was previous in Convention informed of this state of things / by brethren and Smith the Bishop persevered and those two Clergy / left the Church, now my son I have spun a long story and our / very remote situation is the only apology my aged [??-ious] can devise / Lew Emma + [Boy?Bow?] are still in Town and your aged grandmother the / only joint Inhabitant with me
Affectionately your +c Rob’t Morris
A Hamilton Jr.
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[ADDRESS]
Alexander Hamitlon Esq’r
To the care of our Minister
Washington Ervin Esq’r
To Spain _
Madrid
[REVERSE OF ADDRESS]
From Grandpapa
October 27th 1843
Received Dec 7th
[POSTMARK - black ink, large rectangle with rounded corners]
RECEIVED
AND FORWARDED BY
Y. ?. ?.
R. G. BENTLEY
U.S. CONSUL
HAVRETranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
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