#burrs journal

[aaron-burr-offical]

Journal Excerpt: #5

Hamilton insulted me in rhyme again. I hate it here.

[jeffersonuggs]

Aaron Burr’s Boyfriends

(Not necessarily boyfriends just close friendship, don’t attack me)

Jeremy Bentham

Philosopher friend when Burr was in europe

While in Britain, Burr quickly formed a close friendship with Bentham, staying at one or another of Bentham’s homes for weeks at a time.

Bentham and Burr shared similar views such as equal rights for women, the end of slavery, while Bentham also espoused a variety of other reform causes: the right to divorce, opposition to the death penalty, and decriminalization of homosexual acts.

Burr is not often classed with major thinkers like Bentham, but their intimacy was real. Bentham even sought Burr’s comments on essays that the philosopher was preparing.

Burr wrote to his daughter Theodosia fondly of Bentham “He is, indeed, the most perfect model that I have seen or imagined of moral and intellectual excellence. He is the most intimate friend I have in this country, and my constant associate. I live in his house and compose a part of his family.”

He [Burr] befriended the English utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham and spoke to him with remarkable candor. “He really meant to make himself emperor of Mexico,” Bentham recalled. “He told me I should be the legislator and he would send a ship of war for me. He gave me an account of his duel with Hamilton. He was sure of being able to kill him, so I thought it little better than murder.” Always capable of irreverent surprises, Burr gave Bentham a copy of The Federalist. -Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow

Jonathan Bellamy

Was together in the army with Burr

“He is one of the cleverest fellows I have to deal with. Sensible, a person of real humor, and is an excellent judge of mankind, though he has not had the opportunity of seeing much of the world.” -Burr about Bellamy to his friend Matthias Ogden

“I was infinitely surprised to hear from you in the army. I can hardly tell you what sensations I did not feel at the time. Shall not attempt to describe them, though they deprived me of a night’s sleep” -Bellamy to Burr, 3 March 1776

“Curse on this vile distance between us. I am restless to tell you every thing; but uncertainty whether you would ever hear it bids me be silent, till, in some future happy meeting, I may hold you to my bosom,and impart to you every emotion of my heart.” -Bellamy to Burr, 3 March 1776

“My faithful Correspondent, my best, my, (almost), only Friend, is, alas, no more — J. Bellamy’s Death gave me Feelings, which few Deaths can ever renew.” -Burr about Bellamy to his sister, 8 June 1777

Luther Martin

He was the leader of Burr’s defence lawyer team in 1807, that's when they properly met and became really good friends during the trial (Jefferson accused Martin also of treason for essentially being too close with Burr)

In 1819 Martin pretty much lost everything and in 1823 Burr offered that Martin move in with him and his adopted children. Martin later in 1826 died in Burr’s home

Young Dane

Not really a boyfriend but wanted to add it because I found it funny

“In the public room, however, I have been amused for an hour with a very handsome young Dane. Don't smile. It is male!” -London, 21 December, 1808, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr

When Burr wrote amuse, especially in this context, it often meant that Aaron sex god Burr was getting laid, as per usual...

Alexander Hamilton

Not a boyfriend (unless..) but historians keep shipping hamburr so I wanted to add him as well

“Alexander Hamilton's obsessive hatred of Aaron Burr was based on a powerful, unconscious homosexual attraction to him, as is always the case in such examples of paranoid and obsessive behaviour. The fact that Hamilton was known by his peers to be suffering from “recurring illnesses” i.e. manic-depression, which name is interchangeable with the term schizophrenia, adds further proof to this diagnosis.” “Furthermore, there was clearly a passive, feminine homosexual undertone in Hamilton’s actions at the duel, as he presented himself in a totally helpless physical posture to Burr and waited for the latter to shoot him with a gun, symbolically representing being penetrated by the issue of Burr’s penis i.e. gun. Basically what Hamilton’s actions were telling Burr was “Here, take me, and do what you will with my body.”” -Schizophrenia: The Bearded Lady Disease, J. Michael Mahoney

“He had occasion to pay some attentions to Aaron Burr during a visit Burr made to Boston after the death of Hamilton. He took him to the Athenaeum, and while walking through the sculpture gallery, seeing the bust of Hamilton near him, turned off, naturally thinking it would be disagreeable to Burr to be brought before it. But Burr went directly up to it and said in a very loud tone, ‘Ah! Here is Hamilton.’ And, pressing his finger along certain lines of his face said, 'There was the poetry!’”” -The Journal of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., quoted in Charles Francis Adams’ Richard Henry Dana: A biography (1890)

will probably add more for hamburr but this took me longer than expected and i’m not willing to go through all that gay shit™

[aaron-burr-offical]

Journal Excerpt: #3

Washington won’t stop calling Hamilton his “right-hand man.” Okay but where’s my title? Left-hand legend? Ambidextrous icon? No respect in this house.

[aaron-burr-offical]

Journal Excerpt: #4

I told myself I wouldn’t get dragged into their drama. But then he looked at me. And talked. And now I own two pistols and a grudge.

[aaron-burr-offical]

Journal Entry: #1

“Today I waited for it. Again. No one said thank you. Hamilton yelled at me in full verse. Might commit one (1) little duel. For balance.”