![]() ![]() ![]() Everything she had wrote by herself was naturally incredibly personal, so yeah I think it’d make sense if she wanted to have herself some posthumous privacy. While friendly and social, she didn’t enjoy being in the limelight. So, why would anyone feel the need to do that? well, I can think of several perfectly sensible reasons why Elizabeth might have wanted to….~erase herself from the narrative~, if you like.ĭespite her societal and political accomplishments, Elizabeth was still described as a private, modest person. Her husband outlived her) and Theodosia Burr Alston requested their letters to be destroyed. To name a few well-known women & Elizabeth’s contemporaries Martha Washington burnt most of her letters to her husband after his death, Abigail Adams (but people ignored her & Everything beyond that is just speculation, “presumably this is what happened.” (now, I haven’t read everything, so there might be evidence that I haven’t seen but since no author I’ve read has brought anything up, I’m going to assume they either don’t care / I will be proven wrong) First of all, we don’t know who got rid of the letters - the most likely suspect is Elizabeth herself, true - but it could have been as well one of her children - perhaps after her death, fulfilling her final wish.ĭestroying your papers, your correspondence, especially ones concerning your private life - or requesting them to be destroyed after your death - was quite common. BUT! It’s more complicated than that, becauseĪctually we don’t know any of the details - just that the letters are missing. ![]() So, a lot of people are probably aware of the musical version, in which Eliza burns some letters after she finds out about Maria Reynolds. Meanwhile, we do have letters Elizabeth sent to other people, and letters other people sent to Elizabeth - including lots of letters by her husband to her. Not a single letter during their year of courtship or during their 24 years of marriage. Btw: i’ll write a more eloquent post about this at some point, but here’s some random rambling about the letters sent by Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and what happened to them.īasically, these are the facts: none of the letters Elizabeth Hamilton sent to her husband survives. ![]()
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