2 pages (9 1/2 x 8 in.; 241 x 203 mm) on a bifolium, Pinckney Island [near Hilton Head Island, South Carolina], 5 May 1818, integral address leaf postmarked Savannah, 7 May; neat repair to seal tear. Together with: Autograph letter signed ("Saml Bayard"), one page (9 1/2 x 8 in.; 241 x 203 mm) on a bifolium, New York, 17 June 1805, integral address leaf, forwarding his letter book to Eliza; browned, lower right corner of address leaf extended. And with: Autograph letter signed ("Théophile Cazenove"), 2 pages (9 3/4 x 8 in.; 247 x 203 mm) on a bifolium, Paris, 10 September 1805, forwarding a pastel portrait of Hamilton owned by the French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and promising a copy of the portrait in oil, with his and Talleyrand's condolences.  

Cazenove: Allan McLane Hamilton, The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton (New York, 1910), pp. 32–33

2 pages (9 1/2 x 8 in.; 241 x 203 mm), on a bifolium, Pinckney Island [near Hilton Head Island, South Carolina], 5 May 1818, integral address leaf postmarked Savannah, 7 May; neat repair to seal tear. Together with: Autograph letter signed ("Saml Bayard"), one page (9 1/2 x 8 in.; 241 x 203 mm), on a bifolium, New York, 17 June 1805, integral address leaf, forwarding his letter book to Eliza; browned, lower right corner of address leaf extended. And with: Autograph letter signed ("Théophile Cazenove"), 2 pages (9 3/4 x 8 in.; 247 x 203 mm), on a bifolium, Paris, 10 September 1805, forwarding a pastel portrait of Hamilton owned by the French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand and promising a copy of the portrait in oil, with his and Talleyrand's condolences.
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"I received your favour of the 2d of last March ... I will endeavor to be at New York some time in next June ... & there can answer the Biographer of my illustrious Friend, your deceased Husband ... any questions he may wish to know respecting matters relating to him with which I am acquainted. I served in Gen'l Washington's Family in the Campaign of 1777, was a member of the federal Convention with him, & was appointed Major General at the same time with him in the army raised in 1798. But I know nothing of a French faction during our Revolutionary War; & I am ignorant of all matters relative to the Western Insurrection ... my want of a more particular knowledge, than what I possess of the transactions in which my friend was engaged, must be imputed to my having served the whole of the Revolutionary War, except the Campaign of 1777, in the southern states, whilst he served in the middle states ..."

In 1775, Pinckney volunteered for military service as a full-time regular officer in the Continental Army. With the rank of captain and later that of colonel, he raised and led the elite Grenadiers of the 1st South Carolina Regiment, participating in the successful defense of Charleston in 1776. In 1777, when the British shifted their focus to the northern and middle states, Pinckney and his regiment joined Washington's troops near Philadelphia an🅺d fought in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown. It was about this time that he met Hamilton.

Also included is a poignant reply from Théophile Cazenove to Eliza's inquiry about a pastel portrait of Hamilton owned by the French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. Cazenove was a naturalized American citizen and agent for the Holland Land Company, which Hamilton represented in legal matters in the late 1790s. He later returned to France where he secured a position with Talleyrand. The referenced portrait was by the English artist James Sharples, who took the𓂃 likenesses of many noteworthy political figures; he was active in Philadelphia (1796–1801)—about the same time that found Cazenove and Talleyrand there.

Cazenove writes: "[Y]our request and circumstances are of a nature of requiring the sacrifice of self satisfaction, in order to congratulate the desire of the respectable and unhappy spouse. The picture being painted in pastel, time and crossing the sea has degraded it, still the likeness remain; & at the view of it, your tender a🐻nd afflicted heart will bleed to much, I fear ... I reflect that tears are now calling to give little rest to the wife of a man whose genius and firmness has created the greatest part of the United States’s prosperity and whose amiable qualities, great sense and instruction have been a treature to his private friends. Good God! Must such a man fall in such a manner ..." In closing, Cazenove informs Eliza that lest the pastel portrait should be lost in transit, he has taken the precaution of having a copy made in oil for her.