#poor benjamin rush always getting these letters jesus

[icarusbetide]

I had the Anecdote of H’s threat to write the History of W’s Battles and Campaigns, from you, who had it from Miranda. I know nothing of the Circumstance that led to it. In general, I have always understood that Hamilton lived with Washington very much as Lady Teazle lived with Sir Peter, and as Lady Mary Wortley Montague lived with her Husband.

John Adams Being John Adams in letter to Benjamin Rush, Nov. 14, 1812

this comment was made 8 yrs after ham's death, 13 yrs after washington's death btw