You have to realize the vernacular back in those days was much much more different than the english we use and slang today. So it would be rather hard to decipher what the true intent was when you are thinking in todays terms.
Oh..I understand that. I'm not saying he was or wasn't. Just saying that he seem to have an unusually close relationship with this one individual and reading his letters one got the sense there may have been more. And this was not anything I was looking for just happen to be a recurring thought as I read the letters and the book. I have never thought about it again until this thread.
What does it matter really. He's been dead 139 years I doubt many will believe it.
Oh..I understand that. I'm not saying he was or wasn't. Just saying that he seem to have an unusually close relationship with this one individual and reading his letters one got the sense there may have been more. And this was not anything I was looking for just happen to be a recurring thought as I read the letters and the book. I have never thought about it again until this thread.
What does it matter really. He's been dead 139 years I doubt many will believe it.