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I thank you my dear Angelica for your
two last letters and for the Trouble you were taking
to procure me the remainder of the Articals I requestd
you to send out.
As they have not yet arrived and
as you appear to be at a loss about the lights, for want
of knowing the size of my drawing room; lest
any thing should have occasioned delay it may be
of use to inform you the dimensions are five and
twenty feet square.
We have just taken house in
Markett Street nearly opposet the President who
you know lives in Robert Morris house. I delivered
your compliments as you wished to Mrs Washington
who received them affectionately and made many
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enquirys after you. peggy has just left this city with
Mr. Rensselear having spent three weeks with
us she is in good health and spirits but bears no marks of
usefulness to the Commonwealth. I also continue
Idle? but pray my Lady what are you a bout all
this time with your grave enquierys about the success
of your Sisters Labours? Mr Hamilton and I
often talk a bout you with great pleasure and
earnestly wish that you could again be aded to our
little circle but we dare scarcely hope for so great a
happiness. We will not however despair of meeting
again on one or the other side of the Atlantic.
God bless you my dear Angelica Yours ever
Elizabeth Hamilton
Remember me affectionately to Mr. Church and the children.
Betsey according to your hint cries
"Atlantic" and defies any thing that either of
us can say or do. She [illeg.]consents to every
thing, except that I should love you as well
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as herself and this you are too reasonable to
expect.
But I do not know how far
I shall avail myself of her generosity if you
do not mend your manners. You hurt my
republican nerves by your intimacy with
"amiable" Princes. I cannot [illeg.] endure
that you should be giving such folks dinners,
while I at the distance of 3000 miles
[illeg.]can only console myself by thinking
of you.
But I pray you dont let
your Vanity make you forget that such
folks are but men and that it is
very possible that they may not be half
as worthy of the good will of a fine woman
as a parliament man or a Secretary
of the Treasury.
You are not however
to conclude from what I have said that
I am in a violent fit of dudgeon
with you. If it will give you pleasure
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assure yourself that you are as much in my
good graces as ever and that you must
be a very naughty girl indeed before
you can [illeg.] lose the place you have
in my affections. I earnestly join Betsey
in the favorite wish that we may
meet again -- And heaven permitting, it shall be so
Adieu very dear
in law
A. Hamilton
October 2d. 91