The letter from TJ to JA, upon receiving the news of Abigail Adams’ passing.
“The public papers, my dear friend, announce the fatal event of which your letter of October the 20th had given me ominous foreboding. Tried myself in the school of affliction by the loss of every form of connection which can rive the human heart, I know well and feel what you have lost, what you have suffered, are suffering, and have yet to endure. The same trials have taught me that, for ills so immeasurable, time and silence are the only medicine. I will not, therefore, by useless condolences, open afresh the sluices of your grief, nor, although mingling sincerely my tears with yours, will I say a word more where words are vain, but that it is of some comfort to us both that the term is not very distant at which we are to deposit in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost and whom we shall still love and never lose again. God bless you and support you under your heavy affliction.”
Monticello, November 13th, 1818
(via saxum-astrum)
pbdb:
so i found this while watching blink 182’s miss you
Took some pictures of the Hamilton, Laurens and Jefferson paper dolls I made for my animation. I couldn’t get over how cute they were D: I just might make them into stickers~
thomas jefferson laughing alone in monticello with pasta
im actually really sorry
ahh yes the holy triumvirate of what the fuck
i plan on having more (i already have ideas for marshall, adams and madison so i will probably reblog this again i am sorry)
burr: the apple and the scarlet letter symbolize what he became after the era of the founders had passed; the serpent in the creation story, as well as a marked man (think Cain and Abel)
jefferson: the caged bird symbolizes the possibility of enlightened liberty, and the tricolor represents France
hamilton: the fasces is an ancient Roman symbol denoting strong government (e pluribus unum) and the peacock feather is a peacock feather
