[angelica-hamilton]

remember that post about how aaron burr was a cat person? well, guess what. his daughter theodosia definitely wasn’t.

(Charles Felton Pidgin: Theodosia, the First Gentlewoman of Her Time) Burr had written voluminously to his daughter concerning his acquaintanceship with Jeremy Bentham, and the pleasant times he passed with him at his house in London. Burr told his daughter that Bentham liked cats. She replied:

“I am sorry Jeremy Bentham likes cats. I hate them; but hence-forth I shall treat them with infinite deference, and, whenever a cat crosses my path, make her my obeisance as one of the family of his chosen favourites.”