Alexander Hamilton

2 pages (8 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.; 208 x 162 mm) on a bifolium, [Philadelphia], 8 January 1783; small hole costing about 6 words (conjecturally supplied below within brackets), lightly browned, a little spotted, silked, upper margin of integral blank restored. Tipped to a larger sheet.

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Syrett, 3:238

2 pages (8 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.; 208 x 162 mm) on a bifolium, [Philadelphia] 8 January 1783; small hole costing about 6 words (conjecturally supplied below within brackets), lightly browned, a little spotted, silked, upper margin of integral blank restored. Tipped to a larger sheet.
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"half my nights are sleepless—Come my charmer and relieve me." Separated once more from his family while serving as a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation, Hamilton urges his wife to bring their baby—about to mark his first birthday—and join him in Philadelphia.

“[The post my] angel has met with some interruption (I suppose by the river being impassable) which deprives me of the pleasure of hearing from you. I am inexpressibly anxious to learn you have began your journey. I write this for fear of the worst, but I should be miserable if I thought it would find you at Albany. If by any misapprehension you should still be there I entreat you lose not a moment in coming to me. I have borne your absence with patience ’till abo[ut] a week since, but the period we fixed for our reunion being come I can no longer reconcile my self [to it.] Every hour in the day I feel a severe pang on this account and half my nights are sleepless—Come my charmer and relieve me. Bring my darling boy to my bosom.

“Adieu Heaven bless you & speedily restore you to yr. fond husband”