* cahn, having finished Wives and as part of my quest to follow in the footsteps of the great selenak, I'm getting ready to run Oster's Wilhelmine bio through the translator. Are you going to be doing it with me?

If so, I can make the paragraphs shorter with maybe half an hour of not-especially-tedious work, and I'm happy to do it if it helps your German practice. If not, I'll just translate it as-is, and I won't bother uploading the interleaved file (though I will generate one just in case you want it someday--the algorithm already generates it, so no extra work, yay automation).

* With the help of some Google-fu, Lady Mary's complete letters can be acquired at the present time for $67, including shipping: $54 for volumes 1 and 2, sold as a set, and $13 for volume 3. For 3 thick volumes, that's not a bad deal.

We could cross-reference with Wilhelmine's Italy travels and figure out when and where they could have met, and what they were up to around that time!

I'm up for contributing $40 and doing the scanning and uploading, if either of you are in a position to contribute the remaining $27, either individually or in combination. Otherwise, we can wait for selenak to see if she can get library copies when she's back in Munich next month.

Booooooooks. :D