1From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [10 July 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
The day before yesterday, my angel, I arrived here, but for the want of an opportunity could not...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [13 July 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
I have received my angel two letters from you since my arrival in Camp with a packet of papers,...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 16 August 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received my beloved Betsey your letter informing me of the happy escape of your father. He...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 22 August 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
In my last letter My Dearest Angel I informed you that there was a greater prospect of activity...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [25 August 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
I had written the inclosed My Dear Betsey when the appearance of your father’s horses announcing...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 5 September 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Head of Elk, Maryland, September 5, 1781. On September 6, 1781, Hamilton wrote to Elizabeth...
7From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 6 September 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
Yesterday, my lovely wife, I wrote to you, inclosing you a letter in one to your father, to the...
8From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [15–18 September 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
How chequered is human life! How precarious is happiness! How easily do we often part with it for...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 10 October 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Camp before Yorktown, Virginia, October 10, 1781. On October 12, 1781, Hamilton wrote to...
10From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [12 October 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you two days since My Dear Betsey, but as I am informed by one of the Gentlemen at Head...
11From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [16 October 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
Two nights ago, my Eliza, my duty and my honor obliged me to take a step in which your happiness...
12From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [18 October 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 3d. of September my angel never reached me till to day. My uneasiness at not...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [1782] (Hamilton Papers)
Engrossed by our own immediate concerns, I omitted telling you of a disagreeable piece of...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 18 November 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
I am just arrived My Love at this place and shall cross Kings ferry tomorrow. I am much pleased...
15From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [18 December 1782] (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you my beloved for your precious letter by the post. It is full of that tender love which...
16From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [1783–1789] (Hamilton Papers)
I arrived My Dear Betsey at this place yesterday Evening not so much fatigued as I expected to...
17From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [8 January 1783] (Hamilton Papers)
⟨The post my⟩ angel has met with some interruption (I suppose by the river being impassable)...
18From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 22 July 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you my beloved Betsey by the last post, which I hope will not meet with the fate that...
19From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [28–31 July 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
I arrived here My beloved Betsey the fifth day after we set out, the three first days with every...
20From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 17 March 1785 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Chester, New York, March 17, 1785. Hamilton wrote to Elizabeth Hamilton : “I have just written...
21From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [17 March 1785] (Hamilton Papers)
I have just written to you My beloved by the person who will probably be the bearer of this. Col...
22From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [May 1786–April 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
Three or four days since I wrote to My angel by the Post, since which I have received a letter...
23From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [8 September 1786] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote to you My beloved Betsey at Philadelphia; but through mistake brought off the letter with...
24From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [21 June 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you My beloved for your letter by the Post. I have time only to tell you that I am well...
25From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [28 May 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
I am miserable My beloved angel that I cannot yet come to you; but this abominable business still...
26From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [November 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
I just hear of an opportunity for Albany & sit down to tell you I am well. Mr. Eveleigh is...
27From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [11 September 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
The Albany post is arrived and not a line from my dear Betsey; though I have reason to believe...
28From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 15 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
You do not hope in vain My very Dear love that I am tired of living alone. I was so the very hour...
29From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 27 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am again My beloved Betsey in the hot City of Philadelphia; but in good health. And you may...
30From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 2 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you my beloved Betsey for your letter announcing your safe arrival; but my satisfaction...
31From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 9 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I came to this place my beloved Betsy a day or two since to meet some Gentlemen from New York on...
32From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [10 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
This day, my beloved, on my return from Brunswick I received your precious letters of the 31 of...
33From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [12 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
You cannot imagine My beloved Betsey how much I am afflicted at learning by your letter of the...
34From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [17 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you two or three times last week. But since my last I have received another letter from...
35From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [21 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I was made very happy, my beloved Betsey by the receipt of your letter, informing me that one of...
36From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [4 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I hoped with the strongest assurance to have met you at Eliz Town; but this change of weather has...
37From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 31 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I arrived here, My beloved Eliza, yesterday, too late to write by the Post—but am happy to be...
38From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 2 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the happiness to receive one letter from my beloved Eliza and I need not tell her how...
39From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 8 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I just take up my pen My Dear Eliza to assure you of all our health & of our continual & fervent...
40From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [12 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Your letters, my beloved Eliza, have been regularly received & I thank you much for your...
41From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 12 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote to you my beloved Eliza by the post of to day. My heart cannot cease to ach till I hear...
42From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [17 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you two or three times last week. But since my last I have received another letter from...
43From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [21 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Your last letter, My beloved Eliza, gave me inexpressible pleasure. It tells me that my precious...
44From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 10 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Tomorrow we leave this for Fort Cumberland. We are very strong & the Insurgents are all...
45From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 20 October [1794] (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you my beloved for your letter of the 14th. I am very sorry that some of my sweet angels...
46From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 25 [October] 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
The extreme hurry in which I have been My Dear Eliza since my arrival here has prevented my...
47From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [26 October 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you yesterday by Mr. Rensselaer. Since that I received yours of Friday last which gave me...
48From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [16 April 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
We arrived here last Evening well and shall proceed immediately on our journey. I forgot my brief...
49From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [19 April 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
I informed you My Darling by a letter which will go by post of my arrival here in good health and...
50From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [23 April 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
Lest my Dear Eliza any circumstance should have prevented your departure before this reaches you,...