#historical letters

[almaprincess66]

Broke my tumblr silence just to sprinkle a little sad into your day! You are welcome!

#amrev #amrev fandom #american revolutionary war #history #american history #alexander hamilton #hamilton #historical hamilton #historical alexander hamilton #historical john laurens #john laurens #angst #lams #lams angst #historical lams #historical letters #academic history #tiktok trend #when your card declines at therapy

[quietcalligraphy]

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11. II - Romanze - Larghetto (Fryderyk Chopin, 1830). Performed by Krystian Zimerman (piano) and the Krakow University Orchestra, conducted by Jan Krenz (1976).

The Adagio of the new concerto is in E major. It is not meant to be loud, it’s more of a romance, quiet, melancholy; it should give the impression of gazing tenderly at a place which brings to the mind a thousand dear memories. It is a sort of meditation in beautiful spring weather, but by moonlight.

(Fryderyk Chopin. Letter to Tytus Wojciechowski, May 15, 1830)

#quotes #letters #chopin's letters #chopin #classical music #piano #piano music #art #krystian zimerman #orchestra #musicblr #historical letters #absolute cinema

[gracehosborn]

Super Random Food For Thought:

@icarusbetide’s Edward Stevens AU post earlier got me to reread Stevens’ earliest surviving letter to Hamilton from December of 1777. Every time I reread this letter (and often, which I shall explain), I’m always struck by this one portion:

Why have you not written me a single Line since our Separation? Has your Anxiety for publick Affairs entirely eradicated from your Mind all remembrance of your private Concerns? Or have you forgotten those Vo⟨ws⟩ of eternal Friendship, which we have so often mutually exchanged? I am perfectly at a Loss I assure you, my Dr: Hamilton, to account for your Silence. I have written you frequently, and, as I know that you was at a Distance from New York, enclosed your Letters to some of our common Friends in that City, and requested them to transmit them to you.

“To Alexander Hamilton From Edward Stevens [23 December 1777],” The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Volume I: 1768-1778 Ed. Harold C. Syrett, Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 369-371. [Founders Online Link]

All I’m left to always ask is: what happened here? Did Hamilton in fact write to Stevens and his letters just miscarried across the Atlantic? Did Hamilton intentionally not write to Stevens? If so, why? Stevens left for Edinburgh after graduating from King’s College in 1774 to pursue further education, so this places this letter about three years later. That’s a significant amount of time and explains Stevens’ emphasis on Hamilton’s silence as seen above. We have later letters that Stevens wrote to Hamilton, but beyond Hamilton’s initial surviving letter to him (the famous “I wish there was a War” letter), there are no other letters written from Hamilton to Stevens that were printed in The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (see here).

The reason I’ve read this letter so many times is due to TAI which may be a bit silly. This letter is grouped with a couple of others in what I like to personally refer to as the “pillar letters” that have informed my creative decisions for the main arc of Volume I and to that end, part of the larger arc for the rest of the series. A few of these include the previously mentioned war letter, Hamilton’s letter to Laurens of April 1779, a letter Hamilton wrote Robert Troup in 1795, and some others but this is besides the point.

Of course, The American Icarus is fictional and thus I’ve decided that Hamilton simply ignoring Stevens is an interesting take to explore and build part of a character arc from, but historically speaking, I just have too many questions.

The fact that Stevens (more than once) addresses Hamilton as “my dear Hamilton” in this letter I s also interesting to note, but there’s not really much to conclude there. This post in its entirety is inconclusive, but as I said at the top this is just my food for thought.

#grace’s random rambles #alexander hamilton #the american icarus #TAI #edward stevens #amrev #amwriting #historical letters #the papers of alexander hamilton

[martianbugsbunny]

"I have a wife....who is in love with you, and affection for you seems to me so well justified that I can’t oppose myself to that sentiment of hers" and "Tell her (if you have not made a mistake, & offered your own love instead of hers to me) that I have a heart susceptible of the tenderest passion"

Is so Espionage Husbands-core. I mean Talos reminding Nick that Soren loved him was sort of odd (I will allow for the fact that she's recently dead, that makes it a little different), but recontextualizing it like this kinda makes it more intriguing....Also it's catnip to my Espionage Husbands brain.

#btw those are quotes from....shall we say historical letters #and leave it at that #and yes that is their original context the second was a reply to the first to begin with so.... #yeehaw #also I'm still sad for talos that Soren is dead make no mistake #and I'm willing to throuple Soren x Nick x Talos #but I prefer to ship Nick and Talos by themselves #anyway! #espionage husbands #nick fury #talos #nick fury x talos #talos x nick fury #soren #secret invasion #historical letters #also I do want to state for the record that I did decapitalize a few words that looked weird capitalized (historical letters are like that) #and I let autocorrect fix susceptible because in the original letter it was spelled wrong lol #and 'hers' was originally 'her's' so I also fixed that #but I didn't mess with any of the actual words #it's straight quotes #guy 1: my wife loves you #guys 2: you sure you mean your wife and not yourself? #legitimately #martianbugsbunny ships

[he-said-irene]

I hope I enjoy whatever kills me half as much as James Fitzjames enjoyed those icebergs

(Thanks to @grahamgore for posting these transcriptions of the letters)

#This sat in my drafts forever #because I couldn't decide how to word the sentiment in the caption #james fitzjames #franklin expedition #historical letters #the terror amc

[pridewrite]

Prompt: Letters (#pw18)

One of the oldest forms of long distance communication. People still craft love letters today as a sign of care. What gets shared in private communication? What doesn't?

Prompt: Photograph (#pw alt18)

Photographs are important. Photographs are also lacking, for us, but there's still many moments captured between queer people since the invention of the camera, and many more to come. (Some historical inspiration: x x x x x )

#pridewrite #pridewrite2022 #pride month #prompt challenge #lgbt #letters #historical letters #photograph #gay photography #queer art #queer history #lgbtq community #photographers on tumblr #poetry prompt #queer writers #writing prompt #love letters #queer photography #art challenge #queer artist #writing challenge #trans history #writeblr

[ouiouixmonami]

In your great world is there no such thing as some easy introduction to history?

- Theodosia to Burr, October 31, 1808

#theodosia burr alston #aaron burr #historical letters

[oldshowbiz]

December 1961.

#barry goldwater #america #historical context #letters to the editor #john birch society #think tank #heritage foundation #herblock #comics #history of political comedy

[aphroditelovesu]

I'm sorry I sent the ask before I could finish it for the Baldwin IV love letter could it pls be a romantic one to his betrothed/wife-to-be☺️ thank you so much💗

Dearest (Y/N),

I write these words with my heart overflowing with emotion and gratitude for having found someone as special as you to share my life with. From the moment our eyes met, I knew I had found my other half, the one who would bring light to my dark days.

Despite the adversities that life has presented me with, you have brought hope and joy to my kingdom and my heart. Your beauty goes far beyond what the eyes can see; it is your kindness, courage and compassion that truly captivated me.

As king, I carry on my shoulders the weight of responsibilities and duties towards my people, but at your side, I find comfort and inspiration to face any challenge that life presents to us. Your presence fills my days with joy and renews my hope for the future.

Even facing the leprosy that ravages my body, I feel complete by your side. I know our journey together will not be easy, but with you by my side, I am confident that we will overcome whatever challenges life has in store for us. I feel blessed to have you as my future wife as you are the embodiment of grace, intelligence and beauty. Every moment by your side is a gift that I hold dearly in my heart, looking forward to the day when I can call you My Queen.

May our union be blessed by the God and may we build a future filled with love, respect and complicity. I promise to love and protect you with all the strength of my being, because you are my greatest treasure, my queen, my companion for all eternity.

I will eagerly await the day when our hands join in marriage, sealing our destiny and ushering in a new era of love and harmony in our kingdom. Until then, I will continue to write you letters and waiting for yours.

With all my love,

Baldwin.

#yandere love letter #love letter #history #yandere history #yandere historical characters #baldwin iv x reader #king baldwin iv x reader #yandere baldwin iv #yandere baldwin iv x reader #the leper king x reader

[aukanemin]

"In depth of his bewitching I felt secure and warm – I was in flowing haze that is muslin's and mistful milk of skies, and it rocked gently all my cells, and I flew into him as fallen drop, and it was weaved and volant kind of mutabors."

There is no tone of gratefulness and of adore that could suffice and form the shades that I behold to beauty that's demure and delicate and dulcet so, the one that came from @tmxpvksl and glory of their talents and abodes<зз

#digital art #original character #other's oc #semi-historical #historical portrait #fantasy #Inquisitor Lavellan #Liyanna Lavellan #Solas #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dai #solavellan #the progress of love - love letters #by #jean honoré fragonard #was our abode to tone<зззз #rococo #18th century art

[yesterdaysprint]

The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, January 4, 1922

#1922 #1920s #kansas #manners #etiquette #history #vintage #historic #advice #letters #writing letters #messenger #tradesmen #tradesman #addressing letters #address #addressing #unmarried #madame #dear madame #dame curtsey #questionable advice

[quietcalligraphy]

Devotion: The Two Girlfriends (Henri de Toulouse-Latrec, 1884)

I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way.

(Vita Sackville-West. Letter to Virginia Woolf. January 21st, 1926)

#historical letters #letters #quotes #historical love letters #love letters #i love them #virginia woolf #vita sackville west #them!!! #and this painting though it's so great #henri de toulouse lautrec #lgbtq history #literature

[gracehosborn]

Okay, so I am not aware if this is old knowledge or not, however I was looking around in the Library of Congress' Hamilton papers and I came across Laurens' December 18th, 1779 letter to Hamilton, (in which he expresses that Congress wants to choose him over his nomination for Hamilton to eventually head to France). What's caught me by surprise is this:

Between "good citizen" and "I returned to Philladelphia..." there are roughly four lines of writing that are crossed out (the markings being downward loops through the middle of the writing). What has made me very curious about this however is the omission of a note that this writing was crossed out in the transcript of the letter within The PAH.

I suck at reading handwriting (yay visual impairment) but like... if anyone has any idea what this crossed out section might say, I'd love to hear about it.

#grace's random ramble #what was with the editors of ham's papers excluding mentions of stuff like this #yet they transcribed full drafts of his large reports and included the etteras to his large pamphlets #I don't get it #historical john laurens #historical alexander hamilton #amrev #library of congress #founders archives #historical letters #alexander hamilton #john laurens

[verilyproductions]

Alexander Hamilton once wrote to John, “In short, Laurens, I am disgusted with everything in this world but yourself and very few more honest fellows and I have no other wish than as soon as possible to make a brilliant exit. ’Tis a weakness, but I feel I am not fit for this terrestrial country.”

And I can relate.

#alexander hamilton #hamilton #john laurens #lams #historical lams #letters #love letters #they’re gay your honour

[yeoldenews]

A mother's word for word transcription of the imaginary phone call her four-year-old made to Santa Claus in 1911.

(source: The Harbor Beach Times, December 22, 1911.)

Through some outrageous case of serendipity I found a recording of another phone call this same child made 60 years later. Though I have to say his choice of conversational partner is a definite downgrade from the first call.

#I've started using 'our bees are all dead' as my standard filler during lulls in conversation #and no I am not kidding #that is actually 64 year old George Arthur Lincoln in the recording #I'm writing up a bio of him that will hopefully be up within a few days #because this kid grew up to be involved in Forrest Gump levels of 20th century historical events #he was the youngest american general in wwii and was involved in the strategy of d-day and the planned invasion of Japan #he was at yalta and potsdam #he started a social sciences department at West Point #which resulted in his students being called commies because why should soldiers study culture and economics instead of shoot gun at thing #he ended up as the director of the office of emergency preparedness while nixon was president - hence the phone call #this poor man had to sit through so many meetings with Henry Kissinger #his younger brother (Waunce from the letter) was also a general #they were known as 'big abe' and 'little abe'

[naynokkori]

Friendly reminder that this exists.

#HE EVEN CALLS THEM COWARDS WHAT😭 #HE DID NOT THINK TWICE #did he STUTTER? #my gosh i love that boy but what the hell #alexander hamilton #hamilton #amrev #amrev letters #historical hamilton #nay rants #rant