Chapter NineEliza
Philadelphia, September 4, 1791
My Beloved Betsey
I hoped with the strongest assurance to have met you at Eliz Town; but this change of weather has brought upon me an attack of the complaint in my kindneys [sic] to which you know I have been sometimes subject in the fall. So that I could not with safety commit myself to so rude a vehicle as the stage for so long a journey, I have therefore prevailed upon my clerk Mr. Meyer to go to Elizabeth Town to meet you in my place. I am not ill though I might make myself so by the jolting of the carriage were I to undertake the journey. If I can get a proper machine I shall make use of a warm bath to which I am advised and from which I am persuaded I shall receive benefit.
God bless you my beloved A. Hamilton
Fryday, September
