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Abstract: The story of the corpse flower is a story of loss. Other words could be used to describe this floral life history, indicative, maybe more than any other plant, of the strangeness and unattainability of the Indonesian tropics: death, decay, rotted, missing, destroyed, displayed, forgotten; but the overwhelming volume of archival records and empty herbarium spots dedicated to Rafflesia reek of loss. Just a few specimens of the genus live, or rather, are held, dead, in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London. One, a medium-sized, dried flower of Rafflesia kerrii, collected in Thailand in 1929 and pasted to a sheet of white paper; another, a single spongy pistil of Rafflesia arnoldii, preserved in alcohol ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: of intelligence is a hitherto unknown tract written by the renowned diplomat and politician Sir Thomas Roe (1581–1644) preserved in manuscript form in the National Archives at Kew.1 It is kept among the papers of the Williamson Collection in a bundle containing a miscellany of original documents, treatises, notes and pamphlets from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries that appears to have been unopened for decades. These papers concern the political affairs of the Holy Roman Empire and various city states in Germany, and include documents such as “Genealogy of the Kings of Bohemia,” “Description of Austria,” and “Convention of German Princes at Mainz.” In this context, A Small Tract of Sir Thomas Roe ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: captain richard hill ran the actor William Mountfort through with his sword around midnight December 9, 1692, believing him to be a rival for the actress Anne Bracegirdle’s affections; Mountfort, aged about twenty-eight, died a painful death from the wound thirteen hours later.1 He and his wife, Susanna, along with Bracegirdle, were rising stars in the United Company of actors, formed when the King’s and the Duke’s companies merged in 1682. Mountfort, famous for acting Sir Courtly Nice in the play of the same name, was a valuable asset: he was good-looking, comfortable in different roles, possessed a good singing voice (“a clear counter-tenor, and . . . a melodious warbling Throat,” according to Colley Cibber) ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: To the best of my knowledge, no scholar has ever called attention to what strikes me as an interesting, indeed, startling, fact. Between 1697 and 1718, eight plays by or translated and altered by John Vanbrugh were published in London (four of them in more than one edition), plus a popular song, and an indignant rebuttal of Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698). All nineteen of the books and pamphlets at issue appeared anonymously—a fact nowhere mentioned in the still-standard edition, nor in any of the numerous singleton reprints, including those of the most popular of the plays, The Relapse, Æsop, and The Provok’d Wife (all first published in 1697).1 This is ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: the huntington library owns a hitherto unremarked notebook used by the Anglo-American architect John Edward Pryor (d. 1768 or 69).1 It contains valuable details on the genesis of Pryor’s most important architectural commission—Proprietary House in Perth Amboy, New Jersey—and useful notations relating to several of his other buildings. But it houses an unexpected treasure as well: an inventory of a house occupied by Josiah Hardy (1715'–1790), royal governor of New Jersey, during Hardy’s 1761–63 stint in office. Pryor and Jonathan Brinner—a cabinet maker, chair maker, and recent transplant from London—detailed the home’s contents three and a half months before Hardy returned to England. The inventory they compiled ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Shortly after the gunpowder plot of 1605 was successfully foiled, an official printed account provided the curious public with the thrilling story of how a national tragedy was averted. As the story goes, on October 26, William Parker, Lord Monteagle, received a cryptic, unsigned letter warning him not to attend the first meeting of Parliament on November 5. Confused yet concerned, Monteagle took the letter to a group of privy councillors, who found themselves similarly uncertain about how to evaluate its contents. However, when King James read the letter, with its ominous warning that “they shall receiue a terrible Blow this Parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them,” his “fortunate Iudgement in ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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