Re: mass of fools and knaves
the email starts with Alex asking if Henrys ever read any of Hamiltons letters to Laurens
since Alex’s prompt firing from the campaign he’s been going through his college work and found and analysis he had done of Hamilton’s wartime correspondence
“I think Hamilton could of been bi”
he talks about how romantic his letters were to laurens in comparison to his wife
and why no one talks about the possibility of any of the founding fathers being not straight
he quotes one that made him think of Henry and himself, he guesses
“Thinking about history makes me wonder how i’ll fit into it one day. i guess. and you too…”
“History, huh? Bet we could make some”
he signs the email affectionately yrs
Henry starts his response by addressing Alex as ‘First son of Masturbatory Historical Readings’
He explains that he feels like it was his fault Alex was kicked off the campaign
he also ‘extends the option’ that if he wanted less of him and more campaign work, the uncomplicated things… he would understand
Henry, believe it or not had actually done some reading on Hamilton for a number of reasons
one, he was a brilliant writer
two, he knew Alex was named after him
“and third, some saucy tart once tried to impugn my virtue against a oil painting of him”
there’ s mention of revolutionary soldier role play and exchanging passionate letters by candle night
and then Henry gets poetic as fuck
“should i tell you when we’re apart, your body come back to me in dreams?….
and then quotes a letter Hamilton wrote to Eliza
he ends the email, Regards, Haplessly Romantic Heretic Prince Henry the Utterly Daft
Alex straight up tells Henry not to be stupid- no part of their arrangement will ever be uncomplicated
He explains how even after all theyve been through, he wants to know more about him and where does someone like him even come from?
and how he usually knows things about people, a gut feeling that usually leads him in the right direction.
He thinks that he had that feeling about henry, he just didnt have it in his head to get it
“But i kept chasing it anyways, like going blindly in a certain direction and hoping for the best. i guess that makes you the North Star?”
Alex explains how much he wants to see him again
and invites him to his dads lake house in Texas the weekend after nextt
“I kind of cant stop thinking about you all sunburned and pretty sitting out there in the country”
he adds a post script, of Allen Ginsberg to Peter Orlovsky - 1958
Tho i long for the actual sunlight contact between us i miss you like a home. shine back honey & think of me.
Henry says if he’s north he shudders to think where theyre going
but he’s thinking of Alex’s question of where a person like him comes from and he explains it in a story about a young prince who was born with his heart on the outside of his body
and how the prince had been happy for so long until the princes father, a knight, was struck down and the queen sent for armor to protect the prince, he wore it and believed it as okay
until he met the most devastatingly gorgeous peasant…”
Henry finishes his email with counting himself in for the lake house and also that he’s very glad Alex is getting out of the house
he worries he might burn the thing down
“this is mortifying and maudlin and honestly, i hope you forget it as soon as you’ve read it”
and a P.P.S of a quote from a letter sent by Henry James to Hendrik C Andersen in 1899
Henry adds a P.S and a P.P.S, including part of a letter from Henry James to Hendrik C Andersen in 1899
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