![]() Philip schuyler angelica church alexander hamilton eliza hamilton death grief correspondence history Source: The Life and Times of Philip Schuyler, v. Lossing described, “The blow was most severe, and for several hours his grief was too overwhelming to allow him to be comforted or to comfort others, for he loved Hamilton with unbounded affection, as his letters of his family certify.” Sadly, Schuyler outlived Hamilton by only four months. Philip Schuyler was profoundly affected by the news of his son-in-law’s death. My anxiety on her account rends my heart.” Her piety will, I trust, sustain her, and her life be preserved, that her parent, her children and relations may not sustain an additional calamity.įail not, my beloved, to let me daily know the state of your afflicted sister. I do not write to-day to my Eliza, lest it should create a fresh paroxysm of grief. She begins to be more composed unites with me in love to you, your distressed sister, and all so dear to us. The evening of my days will be passed in the pleasing occupation of administering comfort and relief to a child and grand-children so highly entitled to my best exertions. She knows how tenderly I loved my dear Hamilton how tenderly I love her and her children that I feel all the duties that are devolved on me. The change of scene may, perhaps, tend to soothe my beloved Eliza and children. Should, however, my restoration be retarded, I wish to see you all here. God grant that my recovery may be accelerated to enable me to go to New York and embrace my distressed children. Yesterday I was able to sit up all the day. My wounds bear a favorable aspect, and the paroxysms of the gout have not been sever for the last two days. I trust that the Supreme Being will prolong my life, that I may discharge the duties of a father to my dear child and her dear child. Oh, may Heaven indulgently extend fortitude to my afflicted, my distressed, my beloved Eliza. ![]() “The dreadful calamity, my dearly beloved child, which we have all sustained, affected me so deeply as to threaten serious results but when I received the account of his Christian resignation, my afflicted soul was much tranquilized. Philip Schuyler to Angelica Church, 17 July 1804
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