Pete:
I left three books on the shelf tonight and I couldn't get Abernathy's article from the Feb. '49 Journal of Southern History. It's in storage so I'll have to request it tomorrow.

I got Wheelan's book. Brand spanking new copy and I'm the first person to check it out.

I also got three other books:

Aaron Burr : Portrait of An Ambitious Man by Parmet & Hecht (1967)

Aaron Burr: The Proud Pretender by Holmes Alexander (1937)

Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile 1805-1836 by Milton Lomask (1982)

What I really want to do right now is go back on the Net and outline Great Grandson James Wilkinson's defense of General James Wilkinson http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/_Texts/LHQ/1/2/Wilkinson/2*.html

I also plan to ask for some assistance tonight from folks who might be interested in producing THE BICENTENNIAL REENACTMENT OF AARON BURR'S 1807 ARREST IN PRESENT-DAY ALABAMA.

Thanks for the reference. I already love Wheelan's JEFFERSON'S VENDETTA, especially what Burr said in 1836 when he first heard about Texas Independence:

THERE!
YOU SEE!
I WAS RIGHT!!!!

I was only thirty years too soon.
What was treason in me thirty years ago,
is patriotism now.

Best,

RR http://atlasofalabama.blogspot.com
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