The story of the Gypsies / by Konrad Bercovici ; illustrated by Charlotte Lederer.

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English guy gives Napoleon the third degree

Of Schwartzenberg, as an officer, he expressed himself favourably. Upon my asking him if he did not consider the Duke of Wellington a good general ; he replied, “Oui.” —I was not satisfied with this, but repeated the question in stronger terms; asking if he was not a very good—an excellent general. He answered, “Oui, oui!" with emphasis, but not another word.

Minutes of a conversation with Napolen Bonaparte, during his residence at Elba, in January 1815. John Henry Vivian, 1839.

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Examining the sources of the Plymouth Colony Pages [Part 15]

Vital Records of Beverly Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, 2 Vols. (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1906-1907).

In neither vol 1 or vol 2 are any mentions of the name "Packard" made. Likely this was included in Mr. Cook's sources as he has other pages which relate to other families in the Plymouth colony.

Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Families of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston, to Which Is Appended the Early History of the Town, 2 Vols. (Boston: Little, Brown &Co., 1855).

The version currently on Internet Archive is superior to that on HathiTrust as two volumes are put into one. There are very few mentions of the Packards in this book, which are shown in the photo below:

Above cited are pages 75, 530, and 666.

So this book, like the Vital Records of Attleborough Massachusetts, doesn't really say much about the Packards at all. Some tidbits, but that's it. Likely this was used by Mr. Cook when writing about other families in Watertown, MA.

Note: This was originally posted on Apr. 27, 2018 on the main Packed with Packards WordPress blog (it can also be found on the Wayback Machine here). My research is still ongoing, so some conclusions in this piece may change in the future.

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I also remain obsessed with these headshots from "Fancy Pigeons" which are just wonderful

google wants me to explode and die and never try to find out what the scholia gronoviana is ever again

trial of Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella

date: 78 BCE charge: lex Cornelia de repetundis (misconduct as gov. Cilicia, 80-79) defendant: Cn. Cornelius Dolabella pr. 81 prosecutor: M. Aemilius Scaurus pr. 56 witness: C. Verres pr. 74 other: the advocate was not Q. Hortensius Hortalus cos. 69, pace [Asc.] 194; (ORF 92.V).

Cic. 1 Ver. 11; 2 Ver. 1.41-42, 63, 72, 77, 95-100; 2 Ver. 2.109; 2 Ver. 3.177; Scaur. 45; Asc. 26, 74C; Juv. 8.105; [Asc.] 194, 206, 208, 234, 242St; Schol. Gronov. B 325, 329, 333St

grad school is just fighting with the worst online library database trying to find a workable edition of a semi-obscure text and going slowly rabid because all my “institutional access” and “third-party sources” can get me is:

- the crunchiest, highest contrast, most sandblasted, misaligned scan in existence of an original manuscript (no OCT or pdf available)

- one (1) verse translation on hathitrust from 1831 which has since been thoroughly lambasted for wildly inaccurate interpretation of the text

- an unpublished critical edition cited in the footnotes of 2 secondary scholarship pieces, available only via pleading email to the academic who wrote it and is now retired

+ an unrelated modern cookbook / memoir / high fantasy romance novel w/ the same or similar title

being a historical researcher is just going to archive.org and putting &sort=date at the end of the url

good thing about late 19-teens fashion: fashion magazines exist and have so much more variety in the clothes than the one-maybe-two-three if you're really lucky fashion plates per month that i'm used to from the regency/empire period.

bad thing about late 19-teens fashion: fashion magazines exist and have so much more variety in the clothes and i want to make them all.

my collection of downloaded delineator pages is increasing like a lava flow. it seems slow and then you look down and it's all around me with no land left to look for and i'm about to be choked by the fumes.

Buddhist religion appears in Afghanistan

Kasim, J. Mohd. (1935). Aryans in the East. Boston: Meador Publishing Co..

so it isn't a spreadsheet cause idk how google sheets works but so far I have almost three pages of links to mostly primary sources + some secondary sources

Bertrand charms English visitor on Elba

Count Bertrand was lodged in the Hotel de Ville, which is situated in the Piazza, or square of the town; but in apartments of a most miserable, barrack-like description. We ascended to the sitting-room by three unconnected flights of stone steps; the furniture consisted of about half a dozen chairs, a couple of tables, and a mattress laid on chairs, by way of sofa, for the accommodation of Madame Bertrand--the floor was of brick, the walls were bare, and the windows were without curtains. The dining apartment was very small, and the furniture pretty much of the same description as that in the sitting-room.

Nothing could exceed the kindness and attention which we experienced from the Count and Countess, during our stay on the Island ; which, owing to contrary winds and other causes, was protracted much beyond what we anticipated. At his residence we found a welcome at all hours ; he furnished us with books; presented us with tickets for the balls given at the theatre; procured for us an introduction to Napoleon, his mother, and sister, and in short, did all in his power to render our stay agreeable. It was quite delightful to see him with his children: the eldest, called Napoleon, was born a few days before the battle of Wagram; the second was a remarkably fine little girl. Count Bertrand has made the greatest sacrifices in order to follow the fortunes of his master, and has indeed proved himself a faithful and firmly attached friend ... Madame Bertrand is a fine woman, of pleasing manners ; she is connected with the Irish family of Dillon, and our conversation with her was carried on both in French and English ; the two languages being frequently used in the same sentence. She was very minute in her enquiries respecting the Empress Maria Louisa and the young Prince, whom we had seen at Vienna.--The Count understood English sufficiently to read it, and apprehend the meaning of a person speaking it, though unable to converse in it himself.

Minutes of a conversation with Napolen Bonaparte, during his residence at Elba, in January 1815 by John Henry Vivian, 1839. (Link)

Thanks to @shannonselin’s blog for bringing this to my attention.

archive dot org has been holding it down for me as i rewrite this chapter (im citing a ton of things from the early 1900s/random books that aren't digitized any other way and am wayyy too impatient to request them from the library)

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