lizzywhimsy:alyssaannfrank:lizzywhimsy:I mean… George could’ve written some kinky stuff to Martha… w
lizzywhimsy:alyssaannfrank:lizzywhimsy:I mean… George could’ve written some kinky stuff to Martha… we don’t know… because SOMEBODY BURNED THEM…*side eye* MARTHA.I mean this is pretty much historically accurate according to the Chernow biography.I will never forget reading the chapter that discussed how George apparently told dirty jokes, ordered known aphrodisiacs at the time, and wrote illusions to sex in letters to a few people that have survived. There is also this line “..J. P. Morgan destroyed some letters by Washington that he owned, claiming they were “smutty.”“ It was like going into this whole other area where I learned things I didn’t want to know about the father of this country.And here I thought I was just making a joke… and it turns out it was probably true… I love this omgWe literally still have his shopping lists and one of the first things he bought after he got engaged was spanish fly -- source link