Lot 1020
  • 1020

Alexander Hamilton

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Autograph letter signed (“AH”) to Elizabeth Hamilton, on various topics including the purchase of a new pair of horses
  • Paper, ink
One page (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 208 x 166 mm) on a bifolium, “Fish Kill”[New York], 18 November 1782, autograph address (“Mrs. Hamilton”) on verso of second leaf; browned, short vertical fold separation at foot of first leaf, repair and marginal loss to address leaf. Tipped to a larger sheet.

Literature

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Syrett, 3:198

Condition

One page (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 208 x 166 mm) on a bifolium, "Fish Kill"[New York], 18 November 1782, autograph address ("Mrs. Hamilton") on verso of second leaf; browned, short vertical fold separation foot of first leaf, repair and marginal loss to address leaf. Tipped to a larger sheet.
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Catalogue Note

"I shall be miserable if I do not hear once a week from you and my precious infant." Hamilton sends a quick note during a brief absence from home, including sending his love to the couple's first-born child. “I am just arrived My Love at this place and shall cross Kings ferry tomorrow. I am much pleased with the horses; they are both free and gentle; and I think you will learn to have confidence in them. I am perfectly well, and as happy as I can be when absent from you. Remember your promise; don’t fail to write me by every post. I shall be miserable if I do not hear once a week from you and my precious infant. You both grow dearer to me every day. I would give the world for a kiss from either of you.” Philip Hamilton, the "precious infant" here referenced, was then ten months old.

Hamilton adds a postscript asking his "precious charmer" to "Send my sword by your father."