Elizabeth Hamilton to one of her brothers, sometime after November, 1804
note 1: Allan McLane Hamilton says Eliza wrote the following to one of her brothers. At the time, two of her brothers were living: Philip Jeremiah and Rensselaer. If, as I go through my other sources, I determine which brother this went to, I will update.
note 2: This letter was written sometime after Philip Schuyler’s death but, again, Allan McLane Hamilton does not provide a date. As above, as i go through my sources, I will update.
Let me assure you it is an untruth. It has given me some pain that I should be held up to the public in so unfavorable a point of view as on the one hand to request you to make provision for me, by some arrangement, and on the other, (as it is said) to be so amply provided for by my father. What but ill intent toward me could have been the motive to have given such an idea to the world and to my sisters and brothers? But this world is a world of evil passions, and I thank my God He strengthens my mind to look on them as steps to an entire resignation to His will, which I pray may fast approach me, and in that fullness of grace which may be pleasing in His sight. Oh! my brother, may my sighing and sorrowing be seen by Him who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb--shorn, indeed, to the quick.
My friend here has taken the necessary steps towards bending the public mind from this ill impression and he is very much gratified by your correct, liberal and affectionate conduct to me.
source: The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton by Allan McLane Hamilton