cold in my professions, warm in my friendships

a letter that alexander hamilton wrote to john laurens in april 1779. the ultimate lams letter (laurens x hamilton)

hamilton’s son later found this letter and had to censor parts of it because it was so inappropriate

person 1: omg lams is so cute
person 2: have you seen The Letter?
person 1: what no?
person 2: hamilton wrote a letter to laurens and its like the ultimate lams proof
person 1: what does it say?
person 2: “cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, i wish, my dear laurens, that it may be possible, through action rather than words, to convince you that i love you.” and then later it says “you should not have taken advantage of my sensibilities to steal into my affections without my consent.”
person 1: omg so they actually did love each other?
person 2: yup.