Sunday, August 27th, 1797

My Dearest, Theodosia,

                                                 As I pen this letter, my hands are shaking, my anger is rising and I feel myself losing control of my emotions. How could Father have done such a thing? To Mother, to myself? To Angelica? To all of us? How could he have affair with that woman, that wench?

He paid her husband, Theo! He paid him off in order to contain this affair with this woman whom he had never met before she seduced him, and he fell for it! I thought I knew my father. I thought I knew all there is to know about him, but I was wrong.

Mother is distraught, Angelica is distraught, I know for a fact that my aunt is raging over all of this. The affair, the publication of this wretched pamphlet that has destroyed our entire lives. He published this pamphlet to protect his career, to protect his legacy. But little did he know, he has ruined our lives as well. He has dragged our name through the mud. Now, Alexander is fearful about our return to school. He does not want to return to school because he fears how people will look at us now that this it out in the opinion.

Our lives are ruined and it is entirely his fault. I used to respect my father, now I wish I never knew him.

How could he do this?

Love Always,

Philip Hamilton.

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Notes;

On August 25th, 1797, the infamous Reynolds Pamphlet was published. The ninety-five-page booklet detailed what is now known to be America's first sex-scandal. Whereby Alexander Hamilton had an affair with Maria Reynolds, starting in 1971. This affair eventually led to a series of monetary exchanges between Hamilton and Reynold's husband James.

After being accused of embezzling government funds by James Monroe, Hamilton presented him with details of his affair in order to protect his seemingly perfect reputation. However, the pamphlets published by James Thomson Callender led to this affair coming to light to the public and, deciding it was best to explain it himself, Hamilton wrote the Reynolds Pamphlet. Little did he know the effect it would have on his entire family and this is evident in Philips letter.