1) The library finally having hit the tipping point, I've now organized the files into a handful of folders. If anything isn't where it should be or you don't have access to it, let me know.
Fanworks are still at the top, but if we accumulate enough of them, they'll get a designated folder too. :)
2) his trashy tell all memoirs. Which, [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard, yes, I'd like to have in the library. I mean, sadly due to grandson censorship they're missing the vital years of 1730 to 1732, and thus can't tell us among other things how Uncle George first reacted when he heard what went down in Prussia with FW and Fritz, but maybe there are other useful quotes in them, and they do sound very entertaining.
Bowdlerized memoirs in the library, with obligatory 19th century editorial disclaimer that it was perfectly acceptable to be coarse then, so much so that he wishes he could have bowdlerized *more*, but the memoirs wouldn't make sense with entire passages suppressed, so he contented himself with some lacunae and rewriting. Sigh. Someone bring him his smelling salts.
If I find a more complete copy, I'll let you know, but for now, this is what we have. There appears to be a more modern (but still 1960s) edition, that's severely abridged down to less than 300 pages.
3) Lady Hervey's letters are also in the library, in the correspondence folder.
Also, any time you want anything, whether it be Lord Hervey's memoirs or an English or German translation of Voltaire on short notice, let me know, and I'll see what I can do! It's not like I hesitate to ask you to read things for us. ;)
4) And because I couldn't resist, also the memoirs of Princess Dashkova. We haven't talked about her, but she was Catherine's BFF, helped put her on the throne, headed the Russian academy of sciences, and seems generally cool. And in keeping with our Enlightenment theme!
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Librarian update
Date: 2020-09-15 04:35 pm (UTC)Fanworks are still at the top, but if we accumulate enough of them, they'll get a designated folder too. :)
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his trashy tell all memoirs. Which, [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard, yes, I'd like to have in the library. I mean, sadly due to grandson censorship they're missing the vital years of 1730 to 1732, and thus can't tell us among other things how Uncle George first reacted when he heard what went down in Prussia with FW and Fritz, but maybe there are other useful quotes in them, and they do sound very entertaining.
Bowdlerized memoirs in the library, with obligatory 19th century editorial disclaimer that it was perfectly acceptable to be coarse then, so much so that he wishes he could have bowdlerized *more*, but the memoirs wouldn't make sense with entire passages suppressed, so he contented himself with some lacunae and rewriting. Sigh. Someone bring him his smelling salts.
If I find a more complete copy, I'll let you know, but for now, this is what we have. There appears to be a more modern (but still 1960s) edition, that's severely abridged down to less than 300 pages.
3) Lady Hervey's letters are also in the library, in the correspondence folder.
Also, any time you want anything, whether it be Lord Hervey's memoirs or an English or German translation of Voltaire on short notice, let me know, and I'll see what I can do! It's not like I hesitate to ask you to read things for us. ;)
4) And because I couldn't resist, also the memoirs of Princess Dashkova. We haven't talked about her, but she was Catherine's BFF, helped put her on the throne, headed the Russian academy of sciences, and seems generally cool. And in keeping with our Enlightenment theme!