Seriously great Hamilton/Betsy and founders art dolls at his site.
Wow ! 😀
Give my love to Angelica & assure [her] that I did not leave her pye out of resentment for her having changed its original destination; but because it was impossible to take it with us without abandoning a basket of Crabs which was sent to my care for Mrs. Rensselaer. It has always been my creed that a lady’s pleasure is of more importance than a Gentleman’s, so the pye gave way to the Crabs. It was a nice question, but after mature reflection I decided in favour of the latter. Perhaps as a Creole I had some sympathy with them.
Alexander Hamilton to Eliza Hamilton, December 1801, describing why he chose to take a bucket of crabs to his sister-in-law instead of his daughter’s pie. (via
Rules for Mr. Philip Hamilton from the first of April to the first of October he is to rise not later and Six Oclock—The rest of the year not later than Seven. If Earlier he will deserve commendation. Ten will be his hour of going to bed throughout the year. From the time he is dressed in the morning till nine o clock (the time for breakfast Excepted) he is to read Law. At nine he goes to the office & continues there till dinner time—he will be occupied partly in the writing and partly in reading law. After Diner he reads law at home til five O clock. From this hour til Seven he disposes of his time as he pleases. From Seven to ten he reads and Studies whatever he pleases. From twelve on Saturday he is at Liberty to amuse himself. On Sunday he will attend the morning Chrurch. The rest of the day may be applied to innocent recreations. He must not Depart from any of these rules without my permission.
I am here, my beloved Betsey, with my two little boys, John and William, who will be my bedfellows tonight The remainder of the children were well yesterday. Eliza pouts and plays and displays more and more her ample stock of caprice.
The day before the duel I was sitting in a room when, at a slight noise, I turned around and saw my father in the doorway standing silently there and looking at me with a most sweet and beautiful expression of countenance. It was full of tenderness, and without any of the business preoccupation he sometimes had.
“John,” he said when I had discovered him, “won’t you come and sleep with me to-night?” His voice was frank, as if he had been my brother instead of my father.
That night I went to his bed, and in the morning very early he awakened me, and taking my hands in his palms, all four hands extended, he said and told me to repeat the Lord’s Prayer.
Seventy-five years have since passed over my head, and I have forgotten many things, but not that tender expression when he stood looking at me at the door, nor the prayer we made together the morning just before the duel.
what i learned today: in 1800 alexander hamilton and aaron burr were both defense lawyers for a guy who was accused of murder. they tried to cast suspicion on another guy who was near the scene of the crime, richard croucher. the details of what happened next are contentious, because the court transcript is vague and it honestly sounds like something either of these two fuckos would have done, so here’s a brief run-down of the two equally beautiful stories that have evolved regarding richard croucher’s day in court, paraphrased from ron chernow who was kind enough to ensure history didn’t forget this anecdote
the legend is, while croucher was testifying, hamilton held two candles under the dude’s face, giving him a “sinister glow”. he told the jury, “i conjure you to look through that man’s countenance to his conscience.” apparently spooked by a-ham’s theatrics, croucher confessed on the spot.
however! aaron burr later insisted HE was the one who put on this circus show. his version of the story is, he grabbed two candelabras and thrust them at croucher, exclaiming “BEHOLD THE MURDERER, GENTLEMEN!” croucher then ran out of the courtroom in terror
A rendition of this dramatic moment.
The collected part of the semen, raised and enflamed became a Lust converted to choler turned head upon the spinal duct, and ascended to the brain. The very same principle that influences a bully to break the windows of a whore that has jilted him, naturally stirrs up a great Prince to raise mighty armies, and dream of nothing but sieges, battles and victories. In this place I cannot avoid introducing a reflection by way of transgression. What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising fifty thousand Men, ten thousand of them to be Calvary and his projects of sedition Laws and Alien Laws and of new taxes to support his army all arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off! and that the same vapours produced his Lyes and Slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his Life in the field of Honor.
John Adams to Doctor Benjamin Rush, Nov. 11 1806, in which he chalks up Hamilton’s problems to simply not getting laid enough. (via publius-reporter)
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