Name/Title
Letter from James Alexander Hamilton to Alexander Hamilton IIIEntry/Object ID
HHV 005.22Description
Letter from James Alexander Hamilton to Alexander Hamilton IIISubject
Stock, Rye and wheat, trotter, horses, garden, Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Slave Trade, opinions of Tyler Presidency, Whig Party, Leso? Party, The Subterraneans, MacKenzie (court martial) Trial, books, saddle, steamboat venturesSubject Person/Organization
James Alexander Hamilton (1788-1878), Alexander Hamilton III (1816-1889), Mary Morris Hamilton (1790-1869), George William Featherstonhaugh, John Tyler, Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803-1848), Washington Irving (1783-1859)Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Nevis, Great BritainCollection
Hamilton Manuscript CollectionLetter Details
Letter Date
Mar 29, 1843Sender
Name
J. A. H.Address
Alexander Hamilton Esq.
Secty of the Legation of the
United States
Madrid
[REVERSE OF ADDRESS]
From Papa
March 29h 1843
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Rec. April 25.Addressee
Name
Alexander Hamilton Esq.Transcription
Transcription
Nevis
March 29, 1843
My dear Son
I have great pleasure in en= / closing to you a letter from your dear Mother who is / in the enjoyment of the ??? but health she and I / came here two days ago where we have remained un - / til this day with the exception of our visit to NY to attend / a [Yankees? Yonkers?] dinner _ The farm Stock +c was appraised a [page torn, unrecovered] / 21 [ust?] in order to settle with the [?-ale?] and to commence / an [^the] [association?] with those who are to come here on the i [page torn, unrecovered] / to my great surprise I found I had $340 of hay which [page torn, unrecovered] / [leave me?? at gross? ??] by a surplus of 240 and I have I / presume 150 bushels of oats with Rye wheat & [bush?] wheat / excepting wages we have not spent for the family [here? page torn, unrecovered] / over $10 since last Dec’r and do not expect to spend any / thing except for Groceries until after the 10 or 15 May and / yet we live as well our as we desire and are an [page torn, unrecovered] / =pey as ever _ I have turned [Lee?] over to the farm at $60 / reserving the right to [?resume him?] when I please paying / that sum towards del-[??] an other farm horse I do this / that in case he should turn out to the a trotter I may have / the advantage of it His work will be very light & / his pasture good [Syrius?] is very [fine?] The two younger / culls look very well as does [Idurulla?] who will give / me another Colt in May by a trotting Horse I am / now engaged in Making a Hot bed altho the snow has not yet left the garden and the frost is very deep / in the ground I hope to get out some more trees before / it is too late all the fruit trees have been trimmed and / look well our Winter particularly the latter part has / been of [un—?-ed?] [severely hindered?] this month / up to this day has been more like Jany than March.
I do not think the [House?] of [??] Can by [suffer in? as ] / it does at so many other [points? Parts?] has been {wished/bruised?crushed?] In / [relation? latter] map with the “deep Red line” In the 1st / [illegible, unrecovered]
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Place it is said by Featherstonhaugh that GB had just sent / a map the [Shirfen?] knew all that we did 2d This map / is not proved to be the one which Franklin referred to in / his letter _ But if it is admitted to be the same it is only / after all the [Ra??] opinion of one of the [Carr??] / or quite to [??] of two others who certainly under= / stand the subject better than He did. Mr Jay + Mr / Adams They concerned entirely in the opinion as to / the High[-line?] & which we have always urged Nis/ Bul / of the [??] not so It is by no means [??] which / could over rule Mitchels map referred to in the / treaty of 83 as [th??] before the [can ??] or the express lan= / guage of the Treaty again no Land as [webster/benton/??] in / one of his letters seems to refer to this or some other / [page torn, unrecovered] of [?evidence] which had not been before drawn into / discussion. But above all you must [realize?] that / in such a discussion neither party is bound to present / evidence against itself and that when Webster / in one of his [final?] letters goes into the merits of the / question Ashburton says I do not [seem?mean?] to enter / into that discussion _ I can to compromise and to / that let us confirm ourselves & such was the / cause It seems now to be [Ademdled] by all / (except that stupendous Lyar Mr Featherstonhaugh / who when I knew him as I did well at allowing / in 1820-21_ was so accomplished in that was as / to make His name + his statements a [Lyre??]) that / the ground upon which GB rested the [^ on] right when / & according to language of the treaty was because / the Territory was necessary to her line of com - / munication [between?] her [po-?? Is] = our Our / President’s conduct in removing Whigs who put / him into place to allow a [nomination?] by giving / offices ot the [Li=??] is truly disagreeable Indeed / the whole case of our quarrel for some time / past tends most strongly to [??mergers?] into / [can??]. You will mark our vacilating [sic] / policy in regard to the Slave Trade In 24 we / sign [sic] a [c?? Law?]] which [??-ed] in Washington / gave the right of search of England and in 42 /
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We are ready to take fire at the very intimation _ Webster / will [st–??] [??]] in the cabinet CLay will be [red - uced?] / by the Whig committee to be held in May 1844 and will / unquestionably by defeated _ There is now an un -[??] = / reliable branch in the [Le??] Party and I think it [most?] / probable [Van?] will get get the nomination or it he / does that there will be an other in the field _ In / our state there is a [R–?] [put] away the [Lesc’s] Young / Secty of State has come out boldly in favor of Republicans / and some of some of his party in the Senate have urged / a note of [concern?] How it will [??] I know not / If they would eject him it would be of infinite / Service to the State and Country as it would make / in the most + equal manner the [s-??] of a majority or / rather of 2/3ds of the Legislation upon this / Flagitious proposition There is not / under a [???] enough for that / Indeed I do am not sure that / at a future day when we may be [illegible, unrecovered] [page torn, unrecovered] / [-minded?] that there will not be a majority in favor of R -[page torn, unrecovered] / =pudiation even in this state The Subterraneans as they / are called (a [partner?] of the [Leso?] Party in the Legislature) / are [numerous?] and [Wm. ??] will be one of them / They go in truth the doctrines which the whole Party have / Preached but not Practised Hard many _ That / our Legislature could bind a [rescinding] on +c +c _ The / trial of MacKenzie is ended but the result is not / Known It is believed he will be fully acquitted the / Public opinion is generally in his favor _ I will send / in the course of a few days a Box with books and your / saddle delivered to Mr Irving to the care of dir’r / General at [Cadiz?] or Malagra [?? uncle G?] these Gulle[?? - / ?] [instructing?entrusting?] them what to do with it _ I rejoice to say / that all the our family is in high health The steam / Boat enterprise is successful The [Euncha?] is / purchased and Robert is filling her up you know / I am [c-??] to ¼ in her + the other The [Muland?] safely / so that I now get in this [B — D—?] I will / write to Mr Griffin in regard to you in a few days / I [??] for the seasons a [g–?] you in my [land?] do /
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Not [below?] I will go Your letter to 18’ Feby has been received /
Adieu God bless you dear dear son you - J. A. H.
[ADDRESS]
Alexander Hamilton Esq.
Secty of the Legation of the
United States
Madrid
[REVERSE OF ADDRESS]
From Papa
March 29h 1843
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Rec. April 25.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
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