I have some things of a very serious and heinous nature to lay to her charge. Hamilton playfully described having “serious and henious” charges to make against Eliza because of her beauty and charm: You will no doubt admit it as a full proof of my frankness and good opinion of you, that I with so little ceremony introduce myself to your acquaintance and at the first step make you my confident. I venture to tell you in confidence, that by some odd contrivance or other, your sister has found out the secret of interesting me in every thing that concerns her and though I have not the happiness of a personal acquaintance with you, I have had the good fortune to see several very pretty pictures of your person and mind which have inspired me with a more than common partiality for both. At this time, he hadn’t met Peggy, but he had heard about her from Eliza. In February 1780, Hamilton wrote a letter to Eliza’s younger sister, Margarita (nicknamed Peggy) to introduce himself.
Hamilton to Receive Honorary Degree from Albany Law.
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