Benedict Arnold's Family Belongings Sold: Letters of Peggy Shippen Arnold

Benedict Arnold Family Belongings Sold (S1E3): In the previous episode, we read the letter from Peggy Shippen Arnold to her stepsons informing them of Benedict Arnold’s great debt and how she is trying to resolve it. For the next few years, until shortly before her death, Philadelphia-born Peggy Shippen corresponded with her stepsons in Canada, which illuminated her thoughts and feelings as she struggled to come to terms with the loss of General Benedict Arnold. In these letters, she focuses on securing her financial and social position in England and ensuring the future well-being of her children. Let’s hear what Peggy Shippen Arnold had to say to her stepson, Richard Arnold, as I read, review, and analyze her letter dated June 10, 1802 (the year after Benedict Arnold's death), from her home on Bryanston Place, London.