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CATALOG NUMBER S 1040
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE
AUTHOR William Sawyer (brother of Mary Anna Sawyer Schuyler)
RECIPIENT Eliza Hamilton Schuyler (Mrs. George Lee Schuyler)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Dr. H.??, Mrs. [Hannah] Lee, Mr. ??
Miller, Mary Ann [Gardner Lee], Robert [Schuyler, step-brother],
PLACES Boston
KEYWORDS Mary Anna Schuyler’s illness, diabetes (”one of the most incurable
of disorders”), “your dear Mothers situation”, Mary Ann’s cough and cold, William’s memories of sister Mary Anna as an infant (he is 15 years older than her), William was trained as a Dr (like their father),
Boston Ma[page torn]
Dear George , I received / this morn'g _ Elizas letter - / satisfactory & clearly in all / respects of your dear Mothers / Situation , I should have / answered to her, but this she / will consider is the same / thing. In one of my late letters / to you_ I asked you to write / me about the Diabetes symptom / & fever which you would get / from Dr. H. You Spoke of / the last_ but not the Former. / Now Mrs. Lee speaks of her / appetite coming from the nature / of her disease _ I therefore fear / the diabetes is [rasing?] . Does
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the Physician have the urinal / secretion analysed? is it in extra / quantities? you know that / disorder where the nutritives / & saccharine Matter that aught / to nourish the System _ is / wasted off by the morbid / state of the kidneys, one alas! / of the most incurable of disorders. / How is that Symptom?
Mrs Lee speaks of Mr Millers / complaint & sicknefs as dangerous. / is it a disease of the heart? / They are of a dangerous clafs / of disorders, but they often / continue for years, though liable / to a sudden termination at any / moment
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I suppose the vacation for / the boys is nearly up, when / do they return?
Mary Ann is more troubled / with her cold, a cough than / I could wish_ but she looks / pretty well and goes out / to parties +c. frequently / I hope Robert continues / well _ Tell your Mother / sometimes how I delight / to remember dandling her / as a beautiful bright black / haired infant_ getting her to / Sleep_ laying her on the / short black hair sofa in the / front drawing room at N. P. /
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then watching her to wake up / and throw her little arms round / my neck and carrying her / about the house to amuse us / both. and the wonder that / I am here to spe tell of it / But so far I seem to have / got a little of our beloved / Maternal parents constitution. / I am now like one of the old / Dutch clocks_ One of which I / have now stuck up in my Room / to tell me the hours of night, as / I am wakeful _ and it strikes / the hours of night. I am like / it in one other respect_ you must / wind it or pull it up every morning / So it is with me I am good for / nothing until 10 or 11 and then I go / on till the next day _ I never
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Should begin a journey until after that / time _ and then I am good / till 12 at night. Yrs Aff W.S.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
