Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER S 963
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE December 26, 1796
AUTHOR [General] Philip [John] Schuyler
RECIPIENT Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Sarah (“Sally”) Rutsen Schuyler, Margaret (“Peggy”) Schuyler, Catherine Van Renselear (“Mama”), Philip P. Schuyler (son of PJS),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Schuyler
PLACES
KEYWORDS Gout, ulcers, elections, family reunions
Albany December 26~ 1796
My Dear Child
Rensselaer this day found your / letter of the 15~ Instant to me at Wendells Hotel._
We were anxiously looking out for You & Sally, and / had been so since friday last._
Your sister Margret has been extremely anxious / to pay you a visit but has been prevented by the / Gout of which she is still not entirely freed,_
If the ulcers in my knee and thigh had permitted / me to venture abroad, I should have been with you / accompanied by Your Mama and Philip, who is / really become a fine manly boy, and whom you / would find It more difficult to retain from me, than / he was reluctant to remain,_
I believe the Elections in this quarter have
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terminated agreeably to our wishes,_
we all Join in love & the compliments of / the Season to you & Yours, Godbless you /
Yours most affectionately
Ph: Schuyler
Ph:J. Schuyler Esqr
[ADDRESS]
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To Philip J. Schuyler Esq’r
At Rhynbeck
[REVERSE OF ADDRESS]
Gen’l Schuyler
Dec’r 26 : 1796Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
