From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [June–October 1780]
To Elizabeth Schuyler1
[June–October, 1780]2
I wrote you, my dear, in one of my letters that I had written to our father,3 but had not heard of him since, that the operations in the islands hitherto cannot affect him, that I had pressed him to come to America after the peace. A gentleman going to the island where he is, will in a few days afford me a safe opportunity to write again. I shall again present him with his black-eyed daughter, and tell him how much her attention deserves his affection and will make the blessing of his gray hairs.
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1. Allan McLane Hamilton printed this fragment without comment or explanation.
2. It is impossible to date this letter precisely. It was presumably written before H was married and some time after he had become engaged, but there are no other clues to its date.
3. Letter not found.