BIB_ID
124913
Accession number
MA 554.11
Creator
Hopkins, Stephen, 1707-1785.
Display Date
1755 Nov. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
It is possible that the George referred to in this letter may be Hopkins' son George Hopkins (1739-1775).
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Reporting he had arrived safely in Albany but "found the Commissioners for the Massachusetts Connecticut and New York had been gone from here to the Camp more than Three Days before we arrived;" relating the illness of George with whom he traveled to Albany and who "has lost use of his Limbs almost as much as I had of mine last year so that he can neither stand nor go nor use his Hands and what will be the event I know not it gives me a great deal of trouble to look after him but that cannot be helped;" adding that he will return as soon as possible.
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