MY THEODOSIA
Chapters (32)
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Author's Note
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Title Page
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Epigraph
Author's Note
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Copyright
COPYRIGHT, 1941, © 1968, BY ANYA SETON CHASE
ISBN: 0-395-08174-2
SEVENTH PRINTING C
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
Epigraph
Aaron Burr to Theodosia Burr Alston.
New York, July 10, 1804.
...I am indebted to you, my dearest Theodosia, for a very great portion of the happiness which I have enjoyed in this life. You have completely satisfied all that my heart and affections had hoped or even wished. With a little more perseverance, determination, and industry, you will obtain all that my ambition or vanity had fondly imagined. Let your son have occasion to be proud that he had a mother. Adieu. Adieu.
(Written on the eve of the duel with Alexander Hamilton.)
Theodosia Burr Alston to Aaron Burr.
South Carolina, August 1, 1809.
...I witness your extraordinary fortitude with new wonder at every new misfortune ... you appear to mt to superior, so elevated above all other men, I contemplate you with such a strange mixture of humility, admiration, reverence, love, and pride, that very little superstition would be necessary to make me worship you as a superior being.... My vanity would be greater if I had not been placed so near you; and yet, my pride is our relationship. I had rather not live than not be the daughter of such a man.
Author's Note
WHILE this story is a fictional interpretation of Theodosia's life, I have tried to be historically accurate in every detail. I have consulted all the Burr biographies, many contemporary newspapers, and have read unpublished Burr letters in the New York and Congressional Libraries, as well as a few which are privately owned.
The Memoirs of Aaron Burr, with Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence, by Matthew L. Davis, contains the fullest collection of the published letters and has furnished the backbone of my plot, with the exception of the Meriwether Lewis romance for which there are three separate sources.
There is a vast amount of Burr material, so vast and so conflicting that Aaron's character may be interpreted in a dozen different ways. I have chosen the one which seems to me to be truthful and have tried not to distort facts for the purposes of fiction; nor is such distortion necessary—the facts are romantic enough for any purpose.