‘The deplorable death of my friend Hamilton hurt me deeply,’ he [Lafayette] wrote Jefferson for solace. ‘I am sure that, regardless of the differences between your two parties, you always admired him and feel his loss as deeply as I.’
Harlow G. Unger, Lafayette
I’m going to go out on a limb and say Lafayette was probably never aware of half the terrible things Jefferson wrote about his friends (especially Washington). I’m not going to lie, though, I would have loved to see Jefferson’s response to this.
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