Author: daintyfire

tomserveaux:

“[For Hamilton] to call Burr ‘Catiline’ or ‘Savius’ was more than name-calling; these were unabashed verbal ‘cuts’ at his character. The two Roman generals were depraved men, their careers stained by unspeakable acts of treason, murder, incest, and sodomy…Savius, Catiline, and Burr all shared the same personal and sexual vices, according to Hamilton. In one of his harshest rebukes, Hamilton wrote in a letter to John Rutledge, Jr., in 1801, calling Burr a ‘dangerous man’, ‘profligate,’ ‘with the cunning of Catiline,’ who was devoid of integrity and motivated by inordinate ambition. Like his Roman predecessor, Burr was ‘the haughtiest of men,’ aiming at nothing less than to establish ‘Supreme power in his own person.’ One of the most devastating insults contained in this letter was Hamilton’s accusation that Burr’s Catalinian cunning, like that of Savius, was based on his sexual power in ‘courting the young.’ This reference to Burr’s power over young men would prove to be a recurring refrain. More importantly, labeling Burr a bisexual seducer made his hypermasculinity dangerous in a distinctive sense: he had the power not only to captivate women, but he could entice (secure the personal devotion of) young, impressionable, vulnerable men.”

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Nancy Isenburg, The ‘Little Emperor’: Aaron Burr, Dandyism, and the Sexual Politics of Treason

they were a hot sweaty mess and i live for it

foundingfatherfest:

“[The maid] came in just before my dining, and was astonished to find how uncomfortable I was, and repeated it over and over. There is no truth in it; I am more than comfortable. To be sure, of the nine chairs in my room, eight were lumbered with clothes, &c. The two tables, the chest of drawers and the mantlepiece the like; besides about fifty articles on the floor…As to the arrangement, it is my taste; it is order; everything is found without opening trunks or drawers, and I never suffer my room to be swept. These English maids, if they once get into your room, hide everything; and this they call neatness and order. After such a misfortune, which, through inadvertence, now and then happens, it is the work of some days to find the things most usually wanted.”

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Aaron Burr justifies being a complete slob

❤

(via reneexmaria)

…Seems Burr and I have something in common. XD

Let’s just all take a minute to appreciate how truly incredible and hilarious this story really is.

foundingfatherfest:

reneexmaria:

“Do remind me to give you a dissertation on locking doors. Every person of every sex and grade comes in without knocking; plump into your bedroom! They do not seem at all embarrassed, nor think of apologizing at finding you in bed or dressing or doing—no matter what—but go right on and tell their story as if it were alright. If the door be locked and the key (they use altogether spring locks here), no matter, they unlock the door and in they come. It is vain to desire them to knock; they do not comprehend you and if they do, pay no manner of attention to it.

It took me six weeks to teach my old Anna (maid) not to come in without knocking and leave and finally it was only by apprehending to get into a most violent passion and threatening to blow out her brains, which she had not the least doubt I would do without ceremony. 

I engage she is the only servant in all Sweden who ever knocks.

Notwithstanding all my caution I have been almost every day disturbed in this way, and once last week was surprised in the most awkward situation imaginable.” 

—Aaron Burr, explaining why you should lock your fucking doors.

Oh God poor Burr. XD

foundingfatherfest:

“Kit took occasion to tell me that [Alexander] Hamilton (who cast some liquorish looks at his cara sposa, the day we were at Breck’s) appears to him very trifling in his conversation with ladies and that his wife said she did not like him at all. He was evidently satisfied, with this intimation.”

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Harrison Gray Otis

(liquorish=lustful; cara sposa=beloved wife)

I love Otis’s obvious amusement with the fact that Kent is pleased his wife didn’t like Hamilton. XD A little insecure, eh Kent?

Also, Hamilton staring lustfully at other men’s wives.