a letter written by her mother in December 1832, Eliza was described as being like her father: "You don't know how important you are to me. You step in the steps of your father's kindness, and the more you are with me, the more I see that you are like him." From 1833 to 1842, Eliza and Sidney Holly continued to live with her mother in an East Village, Manhattan townhouse at 4 St. Mark's Place (now known as the Hamilton-Holly House), together with Eliza's brother Alexander Hamilton Jr. and his wife Eliza P. Knox Hamilton. Alexander Jr. had purchased the townhouse for their mother in 1833, using proceeds from the sale of The Grange. In 1836-7, Eliza and Holly travelled with Elizabeth on an execurion through the west to visit William S. Hamilton; "Mrs. Alexander Hamilton . . . her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Holley, arrived in Galena on the first of June, 1837." During this trip, Eliza caught ill with yellow fever possibly; "My Eliz has been a good deal indisposed. I hope a few days she will be enabled to go to the Wisconsin.... My Idea as to the Accomodation in case of disease for my daughter was to have hired a portion of one of the Building as I had paid liberally so that it would not have been a disadvantage to the society. A part of the former house was let as a store and their must have been persons going to and fro during the yellow fever." Later life Eliza was widowed on June 26, 1842. That year, she moved with her mother to 63 Prince Street in Lower Manhattan, which had previously been the home of President James Monroe and Samuel L. Gouverneur. In 1848, she and her mother moved to Washington, D.C. They lived near the White House in a house on H Street, where they entertained many guests. On New Year's Day of 1853 alone, their visitors included General Winfield Scott, New York Senator William H. Seward, and President Millard Fillmore. A month after their first meeting with President Fillmore in their house, Eliza and her mother dined at the White House with Fillmore and his wife. Eliza continued to care for her mother until 1854, when her mother died at age 97. After her mother's death, it is believed possible that Eliza influenced or expedited the creation