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Gift of Albert H. Small, 1995 [Print-4440/RP-656]
Engraving. Philadelphia, ca. 1819
This symbolic representation of the British surrender at Yorktown depicts the major players on both sides. Alexander Hamilton appears just behind George Washington, who is flanked by French and American officers. Eager to prove himself in battle, Hamilton had led 400 light infantry in a successful assault on British defenses during the conflict.
George Washington to David Grier, March 12, 1777
This letter, in Alexander Hamilton’s handwriting, orders Lieutenant Colonel Grier to submit an exact count of the soldiers in his 7th Pennsylvania Regiment and to send new recruits to Philadelphia to be inoculated against smallpox. General Washington cautions, “No [pleas] for delay…can be admitted.” As Washington’s aide, Hamilton drafted much of his correspondence.
Gift: Jess and Grace Pavey Fund, 2010
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, [September 9, 1793]
Martha Washington sends her “prayers and warmest wishes” to Eliza Hamilton for the recovery of her husband, who had fallen ill with yellow fever. She cautions Eliza, a mother of five, “I hope you take care of yourself as you know it is necessary for your family.” Alexander Hamilton survived, but the mosquito-borne virus killed nearly 5,000 people in Philadelphia that year—one tenth of the city’s population.
Gift of Cynthia and Richard Helms, 2016
Alexander Hamilton to Martha Washington, January 12, 1800
A month after the death of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton conveys “an imperfect expression of my affectionate sympathy” to the grieving widow. “No one, better than myself, knows the greatness of your loss,” Hamilton writes, adding, “I cannot say in how many ways the continuance of [Washington’s] confidence and friendship was necessary to me in future relations.”
Purchase made possible through a lead gift from Mr. Forrest E. Mars, Jr., with additional support from the William R. Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust and the A. Alfred Taubman Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2012
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