APPENDIX-1864.
 

TOXHTG BUER AMONG  THE GIRLS IS CONNECTICUT.

Among the family papers of a descendant of Jonathan
Edwards there has been discovered, since the publication of
this book, a letter, in the form of a diary, written by Aaron
Burr to his sister when, at the age of eighteen, he was resid¬
ing in the family of Dr. Bellamy, at Bethlehem, Connecticut.
Every sentence of it shows a characteristic touch. The reader
wUl observe that Burr quotes the line:

" O!   fools, who think it solitude to be alone."

In a letter, written to his daughter thirty years after, in
view of the approaching duel with Hamilton, he employs the
same quotation. See page 348. In 1804 he seems to have
forgotten the name of the poet, whom he styled " some very
vrise man," When the following letter was written, Hamil¬
ton, a student of Columbia College in New York, seventeen
years of age, was writing those essays upon the rights of the
American Colonies, which laid the foundation of his fortunes.
Burr and his young friends Avere equally agitated on the great
subject—^little as it would be inferred from this curious epistle:

AAEON BUEE TO HIS  SISTEE.

Bethlehem, January 17, 1774, )
Monday, P. M., 10 o'clock,   i

Deae Sistee : I arrived here without anything remarkable

hap'ning to me, which is very extraordinary—however, the

Fates never decreed that I should go any where, but some one