{"value"=>"<p>Letters Received, 1761-1804 consists chiefly of 2,431 letters arranged chronologically. A two volume calendar of these letters arranged alphabetically by name of the correspondent was prepared by Mrs. Solomon Alofsen in 1851. The majority of the letters are from military officers, members of the Continental Congress, committees of safety, and private individuals relative to the conduct of the Revolutionary War in the Northern Department, 1775-1777. Correspondents include Benedict Arnold, George Clinton, John Cochran, James Duane, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Glen, Richard Montgomery, William Smith, Jr., Richard Varick, George Washington, and members of the Gansevoort, Lansing, Livingston, Van Rensselaer, and Yates families.</p> <p>In addition to the calendared letters are Schuyler’s letterbook of copies of letters and instructions from General Washington and the Continental Congress, June 1775-June 1778; approximately 70 letters, 1769-1796 (i.e. 1769; 1796-1797) from Stephen Theodore Johnson, Peter R. Livingston, Harmanus Schuyler, and Philip Ten Eyck; and 32 letters written to Schuyler in 1788 as a member of the New York Council of Appointment recommending persons for various public offices. Also among the uncalendared letters are the letters he received from his family, including two from his son-in-law Alexander Hamilton.</p>"}