2 pages (8 x 7 3/8 in.; 204 x 186 mm), on a single sheet, [Albany, March 6, 1795], address direction at foot (“Mrs. Church”), docketed in left margin of second page; remargined at top costing 5 words that had been quoted in Allan McLane Hamilton’s Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, p. 231. Tipped to a larger sheet.

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Syrett, 18:287–288

2 pages (8 x 7 3/8 in.; 204 x 186 mm), on a single sheet, [Albany, March 6, 1795], address direction at foot ("Mrs. Church"), docketed in left margin of second page; remargined at top costing 5 words that had been quoted in Allan McLane Hamilton's Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, p. 231. Tipped to a larger sheet.
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Hamilton writes to his sister-in-law during his transition back to private legal practice after resigning his position as Secretary of the Treasury, “an office in which ’tis said I have gained some glory.”

“It is an eternity Dear Angelica since either your sister or myself have received a single line from you. We know not what to hope and therefore we are much inclined to fear. Are you really coming to us—or iඣs some new incident for ever to arrest you? Is there—?

“But we will not allow ourselves to despond. You must & will come. You know how much we all love you. Ti𒆙s impossible you can be so well loved where you are. And what is the🍃re can be put in competition with the sweet affections of the heart?

“To indulge these the more freely is with me a principal motive for relinquishing an office 𒁃in which ’tis said I have gained some glory and the difficulties of [whic༒h had just been subdued.]” Angelica’s husband, John B. Church, was an English-born businessman who made a fortune supplying the French and American armies during the Revolution. After the war they moved to England, and while they spoke often of returning to America they did not do so until 1797.

Hamilton then turns to a quick family report, observes that his workload will ⭕be much less in private practice than as Treasury Secretary,🍃 and assures Angelica that her husband’s affairs will be attended to (Hamilton was Church’s lawyer and business representative in the United States):

“Eliza & our Children are with me here at your fathers house who is himself at New York attending the Legislature. We remain till June, when we become stationary at New York, where I resume the practice of law. For My Dear Sister, I tell you without regret what I hope you anticipate, that I am poorer than when I went into office. I allot myself full five or six years of more work than will be pleasant though much less than I have had for ♈the last five years.

“I have not been here long enough to put in order my private business. I am busily engaged in it. Mr. Chur💯ch will shortly hear from me on what respects his affairs in my hands."