Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER S 947
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE September 12, 1798
AUTHOR Philip John Schuyler
RECIPIENT Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Philip Schuyler (brother), Catherine Van Renssaelear Schuyler,
Captain [John?] Bogert, Renssalear Schuyler (brother), Alexander
Hamilton, Governor John Jay, President John Adams,
Bogert: https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/b/jobogert6121.html
PLACES
KEYWORDS Laudanum, illness, attacks [of gout?], Philip had “ague and fever”,
apples, apple varieties: pippins, swaar, Spitzenberg, Hamilton to
help son Renssalear Schuyler in the Army (“Solicit a Captaincy of Dragoons”), Jay helps with recommending same to the President,
Albany Sept.12~1798
My Dear Child
I thank you for your [advice?] / and prescription to prevent the effects / of the Laudanum, I shall avail myself / of It,_ I do not suffer so frequently as [I were] before / from violent attacks, Indeed I have had / but one of any severity in the last twelve days._
Philip is in a good School and attentive / and promises to progrefs handsomely / the week before last he had two or three / fits of the ague and fever but is now / perfectly recovered,
The few apples I had have been / chiefly pillaged, so that Your Mama / begs you will put her up eight hands / Sorted pippens, Swaer apples & Spitzenbergs / I will get Capt: bogert to Call for them / when I am advised where he should / Stop for them,__
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I shall be happy to see you afsoon / you can conveniently leave home_
If you can find an opportunity / pray send up my horse as I am / much in want of him_ /
Your Brother Rensselaer has evinced / so strong an Inclination to go into / the Army that I have [deem?] It prudent / not to withold[sic] my Consent, General / Hamilton is of opinion that It will / be proper he should and will Solicit / a Captaincy of Dragoons for him, Gov~. / Jay has also recommended him to / the president for that office, and by / his advice I have also Addrefsed a letter / to the president on the Subject _
We are all well here and all Join / In love to You Sally & the Children / Compliments to M~ Sands & family
I am My Dear Child
Your very Affect parent
Ph: Schuyler
Ph: Jere~ Schuyler Esq’r
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[ADDRESS]
To
Philip Jere~: Schuyler / Esq’r
Rhynbeck
[LABEL]
P. Schuyler
Sep. 12. 1798
apples “pillaged”Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
