Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER S 986
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE July 21, 1800
AUTHOR General Philip John Schuyler
RECIPIENT Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Caty (Catherine VR Schuyler) (?Caty), “my daughter” (??), grand
\ children
PLACES Albany, Claverack, Rhinebeck
KEYWORDS surveys of Claverack, PJS ill, PS ill, PS using crutches, the
“Chariot”, exercise, appetite
Albany 21~ July 1803
I am extremely grived to find that you / My Dear Child are so much indisposed, and / altho your presence at the future Surveys at / Claverack would be desirable and beneficial / ^ yet] neither are to be put in compl?? competition / with your health, do not therefore go to Claverack / until you are compleatly restored
A Journey to you would not only be a / beneficial [exercise], which I very much want / but gratifying to my feelings and affection / but I am still unfortunately confined to my / chair, for altho I now suffer very little from / pain, I can only move with the Aid of Crutches / consequently have little exercise, and until I / had recourse to the Chariot, had almost entirely / lost my Appetite,_ that is now restored in
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a considerable degree._
Caty unites in love to you [ ^to] my Daughter / and to my Grand Children. I hope you are / mending and that they are all well._
I shall not be at ease until I hear that / you are better, pray write me If you can or / let my daughter write
God Bless you all /
I am my very beloved Child /
Your affectionate parent /
Ph: Schuyler /
Ph: Jer~ Schuyler Esq’r__
[ADDRESS]
To Philip Jere’ Schuyler Esq.
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RhynbeckTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
