It's not just me, then
Mar. 7th, 2025 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceiswynFrom Parton's 1857 biography of Burr:
"One may read Mr. Davis's work, and Burr's European Diary, and the Report of his Trial for Treason, making in all more than three thousand octavo pages, and still be utterly unable to decide what manner of man he was, and what, in the great crises of his life, he either did or meant to do. I can confidently appeal to any one who has gone through those six ponderous volumes, to confirm the assertion, that they leave Aaron Burr, at least, to the consideration of the reader, a baffling enigma!"
Make that seven. I read the transcript of his trial for misdemeanour as well. And oh, Parton is not wrong. Burr is utterly baffling, but also completely charming. What I wouldn't do to understand him a bit better...
"One may read Mr. Davis's work, and Burr's European Diary, and the Report of his Trial for Treason, making in all more than three thousand octavo pages, and still be utterly unable to decide what manner of man he was, and what, in the great crises of his life, he either did or meant to do. I can confidently appeal to any one who has gone through those six ponderous volumes, to confirm the assertion, that they leave Aaron Burr, at least, to the consideration of the reader, a baffling enigma!"
Make that seven. I read the transcript of his trial for misdemeanour as well. And oh, Parton is not wrong. Burr is utterly baffling, but also completely charming. What I wouldn't do to understand him a bit better...
