Name/Title
Letter from Philip John Schuyler to Jeremiah SchuylerEntry/Object ID
HHV 006.6Description
Letter from Philip John Schuyler to Jeremiah SchuylerSubject
son’s illness, sister’s illness, wife’s illness (and “present condition”)Subject Person/Organization
Philip J. Schuyler (1733-1804), Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835), Sarah Rutsen Schuyler, Catherine Schuyler (1734-1803), Angelica Schuyler Church (1756-1814), Elizabeth Matilda ChurchSubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Albany, New York, Rhinebeck, New York, WatervlietCollection
Schuyler Manuscript CollectionLetter Details
Letter Date
Jul 29, 1798Time Period
18th CenturyTranscription
Albany 29’ July 1798
My dear and Affectionate Child
The state of your health / continues to alarm me, I like / not that expectorat-[es?] which / indicates that all is not well about / the region of the breath, may my / apprehensions be groundlefs _
Sallys indisposition I impute / to her present condition, It therefore / gives me no [other?] pain that that / which I suffer when a child of / mine is indisposed _ /
Your sister Catherine is indisposed / with a remittent fever such as / she experienced last summer, but /
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Less violent, and with symptoms / that do not give us so much / alarm as then _
Should any incident either of / want of health, or otherwise / deprive me of the happinefs of / seeing you speedily _ send my / Philip up with Mr Sands when / he comes to attend the Legislature / I am anxious that the child / should profit from the present / instructors which we have hence /
My disorder is apparently / stationary, tho generally with / lefs pain _
Your mama, sister Church /
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And your niece Eliza, are in / perfect health, it is all the family / at Water Vlieet, and all Jpoin me in love to You Sally and / the Children, God beliefs you all / I am my Dear Child ever / most Affectionately Yours /
Ph: Schuyler
Ph: Jere ⋍ Schuyler Esq’r
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[POSTAL NOTATION]
Illegible 10
[ADDRESS]
To Philip Jer: ⋍ Schuyler
Esqr
At Rhynbeck
[REVERSE OF ADDRESS]
P Schuyler
July 29 -98Other Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former NumberOther Number
S 938
