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CATALOG NUMBER S 1037
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE February 1, 1810
AUTHOR William Sawyer
RECIPIENT Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Hannah, George Gardner Lee (“her spouse”), my little Lady
[Runelagh]
PLACES Hartford, Boston
KEYWORDS visits to Lee family home, “political & party contests”
Sunday Feb’y 1st Boston
It requires my dear Schuyler almost an apology / for scribbling so immed’ly after your departure from / us , but Mary ann will recollect her injunctions / not to delay more than one day . And to fulfil her / expectation this line is dispatched without any / thing in particular to communicate or exprefs _ except My overflowing wishes for the thought? / continued health & happinefs of the dear objects / of my [^regard] affections, so recently separated _ The / weather has been unfavorable a little but as it / does not appear to interpose any great obstacles / to your journey I shall expect to hear from [page torn] / in a day or two as far as Hartford - and the [page torn] / we must wait a long interval with patience - / Hannah and her loving spouse get along charmingly. / Their house will be a precious haunt to me. / I and / I calculate every eve’g to occupy at least my / half hour in the elbow chair. When we a subject / for conversation is wanting , we shall [falt fears/first?] of
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our relations at Rhinbeck , whom I feel I sha-[page torn] / abuse without mercy , and I shall take care / not to exclude my little Lady [Runelagh] from / her share of it ~ I think it was your determination / which I hope will not be altered to keep aloof as / a spectator on your political & party contests_ / Your feelings and happinefs are not of that stuff / that can bear to be hazarded to the sport of such / excessive rudeness & vulgarity by which most of / your public characters are afsailed__ our / [page torn]-tuous legislature are now so absorbed in local / speculations & jobbings in Bridges & banks &cc. that / in the different commutations for the support of each / others schemes all parties are blended_ and the / ludicrous combinations that we meet [&hear] of avowed / enemies , would have been thought some time since / a caricature_
Marryann will want something s-[page torn]-ular from her /
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parents they are I believe quite well as usual. / but I have only obtained intelligence casually ~ ~ / and now my dear Sir do not think that I wish / to mean in future to tax you for your time & atten- / -tion or require strict punctuality as a correspondent, / a line now & then to know that you are in health / will be most acceptable, if you are & / yours are well it is all the surety / for your happinefs that I want~ /
The boys I hope are well if I [^ever] go to house / keeping I shall claim one of them - My love / to Kate , and accept My dear brother & sister / the same from yours most sincerly & afftly /
W’m. S’r.
[ADDRESS]
W.S.
Feb’y 1. 1810
Philip J. Schuyler Esq’r
Rhinbeck N.Y.
[POSTAL NOTATION]
17
[POSTMARK - black ink, circle]
BOSTON MA
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
