Letter from Philip John Schuyler to Jeremiah Schuyler
Entry/Object ID
HHV 006.7
Description
Letter from Philip John Schuyler to Jeremiah Schuyler
Subject
health, illness, paroxysms, PJS returns to Rhinebeck
Subject Person/Organization
Philip J. Schuyler (1733-1804), Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835), Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler
Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Albany, New York, Rhinebeck, New York
Collection
Schuyler Manuscript Collection
Letter Details
Letter Date
Aug 23, 1798
Time Period
18th Century
Transcription
Transcription
Albany 23’ Aug: 1798
My Dear Child
I am happy to learn that you arrived in health and found / Sally + the Children so,_ a little / too much inton inattention may / ruin your health and add to the catalogue of Calamities which / I already experience, let me therefore / intreat and implore to be care- / ful and not to expose yourself to / wet, cold, and the night air._
I continue to experience severe / paroxisms of pain but otherwise enjoy / as much health as I can reasonably / expect,_ Your Dear Mother and
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amiable sisters are well and Join / me in love to you & yours /
May heaven speedily return / you to full health, and reward / that filial affection which your / parents experience from you with so much satisfaction, Adieu /
My Dear Child
Ever affectionately yours
Ph: Schuyler
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[ADDRESS]
To Ph: Jere: ⋍ Schuyler Esq’r
At
Rhynbeck
[REVERSE OF ADDRESS]
P. Schuyler
Aug’t 23 _ 98
