She has good nature affability and vivacity unembellished with that charming frivolousiness which is justly deemed one of the principal accomplishments of a belle. Her good sense is destitute of that happy mixture of vanity and ostentation which would make it conspicuous to the whole tribe of fools and foplings as well as to men of understanding so that as the matter now stands it is ⟨very⟩ little known beyond the circle of these. She is most unmercifully handsome and so perverse that she has none of those pretty affectations which are the prerogatives of beauty.
In 1780, Hamilton wrote Angelica a letter describing his infatuation with Eliza: I have already confessed the influence your sister has gained over me yet notwithstanding this, I have some things of a very serious and heinous nature to lay to her charge.
Her lines in the play, "I’m just sayin’, if you really loved me, you would share him," are drawn from a letter the real Angelica wrote to Eliza, in which she joked, "I love him very much and if you were as generous as the Old Romans you would lend him to me for a while.") (As the musical shows, Hamilton also got pretty flirty with Eliza's vivacious older sister, Angelica. She met Alexander Hamilton in 1780, when both were in their early 20s.
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