Hamilton he has just Gone oute and I am a Lone I think you had better come here one moment that you May know the Cause then you will the better know how to act Oh my God I feel more for you than myself and wish I had never been born to give you so mutch unhappiness do not rite to him no not a Line but come here soon do not send or leave any thing in his power. has rote you this morning and I know not wether you have got the letter or not and he has swore that If you do not answer It or If he dose not se or hear from you to day he will write Mrs. I have not tim to tell you the cause of my present troubles only that Mr.
December 15, Hamilton received an urgent note from his mistress: Hamilton (whose wife and children were vacationing with relatives in Albany) and Maria Reynolds saw each other regularly throughout the summer and fall of 1791-until James Reynolds returned to the scene and instantly saw the profit potential in the situation. A conversation followed, at which point Hamilton felt certain that “other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable” to Maria Reynolds.Īnd thus began an affair that would put Alexander Hamilton at the front of a long line of American politicians forced to apologize publicly for their private behavior. When he arrived at the Reynolds home, Maria led him into an upstairs bedroom. Hamilton was eager to be of service, but, he recounted later, it was not possible at the moment of her visit, so he arranged to visit her that evening, money in hand.
Hamilton, just 34, was serving as secretary of the United States treasury and was himself a New Yorker she thought he would surely be able to help her return to that city, where she could resettle among friends and relatives. Her husband, James Reynolds, had abandoned her-not that it was a significant loss, for Reynolds had grossly mistreated her before absconding. Maria Reynolds, a 23-year-old blonde, came to Hamilton’s Philadelphia residence to ask for help. In the summer of 1791, Alexander Hamilton received a visitor.
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