On the Street Where You Live: Real Estate in Literature

Hello Everybody,

John Evelyn had occasion, in effect, to renew his passport. We, perhaps, thinks today's passport renewals are somewhat cumbersome but have a look at the entries for 27th June, 1650 through to 30th August, 1650 in his Diary and then ... count your blessings.

In friendship,
Eric.
email: evelyndiary@...
web: hughyeman.com/evelyn/

#1259

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Fri Aug 31, 2012 4:43 pm
Subject: Fwd: Vasa � the lopsided warship

thforeman

Another winner from Roger Brown.

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Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Subject: Vasa � the lopsided warship
To: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>

I first learned about the Vasa from Get Fuzzy, the cartoon. The dog had built a replica model, the cat flushed it down the toilet in the interests of historical accuracy. I think the PBS show (Nova maybe) came later. There was Vasa news recently, it is continuing to disintegrate.

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Vasa � the lopsided warship

via Past Horizons Archaeology by Past Horizons on 8/31/12

The ship in the Vasa Museum. Photo: �ke E:son Lindman.

On Sunday, the 10th of August, 1628, Vasa lay rigged and ready for sea just below the royal palace Tre Kronor in Sweden. Ballast, guns and ammunition were all on board. On the quays and shores along Str�mmen, an excited public waited to watch the ship leave Stockholm and celebrate her departure.

A disaster rediscovered

Over a hundred crewmen were on board, as well as women and children. The crew had permission to take family and guests along for the first part of the passage through the Archipelago.

Sailors climbed the rigging to set four of Vasa�s ten sails, a salute was fired, and the ship slowly began her maiden voyage. Once Vasa came out from under the lee of the S�dermalm cliffs, the sails could catch the wind, but the ship heeled over to port and water rushed in through the open gun ports. The ship�s fate was decided and Vasa sank after sailing barely 1300 metres from where she was built.

It was not customary to sail with open gun ports but a salute had just been fired, which was a tradition when leaving the harbour.

Vasa breaking the water surface on the 24th of April in 1961 with the help of the two lifting pontoons Oden and Frigg. Aft of the ship is the divers� raft, with spectators and staff on board. Behind it the steamship Viking (built in 1910) can be seen. Photo: Archives, the Swedish National Maritime Museums.

Vasa was raised in 1961 and floated on her keel on 4 May after being sealed and then emptied with powerful bilge pumps. She was piloted towards a dry dock where she was placed on a floating pontoon, where she still rests.

Documentation of this remarkable ship

A major project of documenting and measuring the timbers of Vasa has been in progress for four years and has recently been completed with a digital 3D image of Vasa now being available. The whole ship has been measured using an advanced digital method where over 80,000 points provide precise detail about the inner secrets.

One surprising find is just how asymmetrical the construction of Vasa is. It is now clear that the ship was built more askew than previously believed and that the gun ports on the port side are less well lined up with those on the starboard side.

The carpenters who built Vasa had come from both Holland and Sweden and used measuring rulers of different sizes -a Swedish foot differed from a Dutch foot � which explains the asymmetrical construction.

Measuring rules found on-board Vasa � note the different measurement marks. Photo: Anneli Karlsson, the Swedish National Maritime Museums.

The worth of Detailed study

�We knew that that there were differences between port side and starboard side but that they were so great was unexpected. The information that has emerged raises new questions and reminds us that Vasa is a project in constant flux�, says Vasa Museum�s director of research Fred Hocker.

No other ship in the world has been measured in such detail. The method used, which is unique, will probably become a standard for other researchers in the future. The vast documentation work will also be of vital significance for the design of a new construction which is being developed to better support Vasa in the future.

Source: Vasa Museum

More Information

Vasa Museum
During Sweden�s period as a great power (1611-1718) the Kingdom�s prestige and navy witnessed an expansion.� In 1625 King Gustav II Adolf commissioned the construction of the ship Vasa. A ship which would participate in the war against Poland. With 64 guns and 300 soldiers Vasa would become a formidable display of military power � and artistic splendour. Thus a true showpiece.

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#1260

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Mon Sep 3, 2012 10:26 pm
Subject: A Redoubt of Learning Holds Firm

thforeman

[more] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/science/royal-society-holds-firm-amid-political-challenges-to-science.html?hp

LONDON � To stroll out of Carlton Gardens into the elegant confines of the Royal Society is to find a trove of centuries-old wonders, from Sir Isaac Newton�s reflecting telescope to the first electric machine to fantastical illustrated catalogs of fish and birds.

Then you enter the sunlight-suffused office of the society�s president, Sir Paul Nurse. With his spiky mass of white hair, broad nose, ready smile and thick work boots, he looks the part of old-fashioned knight of science ready to tramp through the fens. But this Nobel Prize winner in medicine offers a very 21st-century lament.

�Policy debate these days involves trying to rubbish the science, and that is dangerous,� Dr. Nurse says. �Global warming denialists, those who oppose genetically modified crops and vaccinations, or the teaching of evolution: their trick is treat scientific argument as if it�s a political argument, and cherry-pick data.�

Dr. Nurse feels this danger more passionately than most, for the society he presides over was the crucible of the scientific revolution that formed the modern world. The society conducts studies, consults on government panels and has 1,450 fellows, about 80 of them Nobel winners. Yet theirs is, at times, an embattled world.

Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is the world�s oldest continuous scientific society. Newton, Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle and many more came together in a spirit of revolutionary if at times eccentric inquiry. Magic and alchemy greatly fascinated the society�s founders.

King Charles II granted the society a royal charter in 1662, and for centuries it hitched a ride on the back of Britain�s imperial ambitions. Explorers, scientific-minded military officers and colonial officials, and merchants � not just British � collected specimens, mapped unknown lands and recorded observations in every corner of the globe. And they shipped all of this, with accompanying essays, to the Royal Society.

#1261

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:19 pm
Subject: Fwd: Migraine: Worms for her, please!

thforeman

Roger Brown (rb) sent this.

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Subject: Migraine: Worms for her, please!
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Migraine: Worms for her, please!

via Improbable Research by Marc Abrahams on 9/10/12

Migraine is the subject of a report by Dr Katherine Foxhall�[pictured here]�in the Wellcome Library blog:

Houseleeks and Garden Worms

��Since I�began researching the history of migraine three years ago, I have been just as intrigued by the recipe books in the Wellcome Library�s manuscript collections��Jane Jackson�s book�is a great example. She carefully compiled her Method of Phisicke and Chirurgery just as Civil War began in England in 1642, and included hundreds of carefully written recipes dealing with everything from common aches, wounds and agues to plague�. her book�reveals a lot about early-modern migraine knowledge. Jackson�s first recipe (p.4b) instructs the reader to take �houseleeke and garden worms�, stamped together and mixed with fine�flour�to make a plaster�

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#1262

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:45 pm
Subject: Guides to the gallows -- Collection shows printed broadsides that accompanied executions

thforeman

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/08/guides-to-the-gallows/?utm_source=harvardalumnigazette&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=september12

On Nov. 30, 1824, a London banker named Henry Fauntleroy was hanged in public outside Newgate Prison, one month after being sentenced to death for embezzlement. There were 100,000 onlookers.

Many of those watching paid a penny each for a broadside printed just that morning. The single sheet describes Fauntleroy�s reaction when his appeal was denied. At the top of the broadside is a crude woodcut of a well-dressed man dangling from the gallows.

The Harvard Law School Library owns a copy of that broadside, along with four others about Fauntleroy, including an account of his execution. They are among 500 such artifacts in �Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders,� a collection of what scholars now call crime broadsides.

It is among the largest collections of its kind and the only one to be fully digitized. (That work was completed in 2007.) �It�s wonderful that people can sit anywhere in the world and look at these,� said Mary Person, the archivist who catalogued most of the collection.

#1263

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:37 pm
Subject: "Pepys Road" - upwardly mobile

thforeman

September 13, 2012

On the Street Where You Live: Real Estate in Literature

Posted by Ian Crouch

John Lanchester�s recent novel, �Capital,� is full of sharply drawn characters, men and women living at different points on the class spectrum of modern England, whose lives intersect in a series of increasingly fraught episodes. Yet one of its most memorable characters isn�t a person at all, but, rather, a street.

In the book�s brief, shimmering prologue, Lanchester lingers for a moment on �an ordinary-looking street in South London� called Pepys Road, a name that tellingly alludes to Samuel Pepys, a seventeenth-century bureaucrat whose decade-long diary, begun in 1660, has in the years since filled out the historical portrait of London. �Capital� is not a diary, nor is it, though Lanchester is a fine journalist in addition to being a novelist, essentially journalistic�but it is nonetheless animated by the urge to catalogue and inform. It is a big realist Novel of the Now, and one of its aims is to capture a specific moment in time. That moment is London in 2007 and 2008, on either side of the global financial meltdown, and Pepys Road is at once an illustration of the pre-crash condition of ever-increasing real-estate wealth and a shorthand for the patterns of behavior that built to that tenuous apex.

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#1264

From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Date: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:21 am
Subject: Re: "Pepys Road" - upwardly mobile

gyford

Coincidentally, I did some of the web development work on this, and the whole thing was put together by friends of mine. It's quite a nice site to try, although, other than the name, there's no connection to Pepys.

Phil

On 23 Sep, 2012, at 22:37, terry foreman <terry.foreman@...> wrote:

September 13, 2012
On the Street Where You Live: Real Estate in Literature
Posted by Ian Crouch

John Lanchester�s recent novel, �Capital,� is full of sharply drawn characters, men and women living at different points on the class spectrum of modern England, whose lives intersect in a series of increasingly fraught episodes. Yet one of its most memorable characters isn�t a person at all, but, rather, a street.
In the book�s brief, shimmering prologue, Lanchester lingers for a moment on �an ordinary-looking street in South London� called Pepys Road, a name that tellingly alludes to Samuel Pepys, a seventeenth-century bureaucrat whose decade-long diary, begun in 1660, has in the years since filled out the historical portrait of London. �Capital� is not a diary, nor is it, though Lanchester is a fine journalist in addition to being a novelist, essentially journalistic�but it is nonetheless animated by the urge to catalogue and inform. It is a big realist Novel of the Now, and one of its aims is to capture a specific moment in time. That moment is London in 2007 and 2008, on either side of the global financial meltdown, and Pepys Road is at once an illustration of the pre-crash condition of ever-increasing real-estate wealth and a shorthand for the patterns of behavior that built to that tenuous apex.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/on-the-street-where-you-live-real-estate-in-literature.html#ixzz27KaaFVQ0

Phil Gyford

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#1265

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:31 pm
Subject: Re: "Pepys Road" - upwardly mobile

thforeman

Nice gig, Phil.

And you are another connection to Pepys for that site. - ;-P

Terry

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Phil Gyford <lists@...> wrote:

Coincidentally, I did some of the web development work on this, and the whole thing was put together by friends of mine. It's quite a nice site to try, although, other than the name, there's no connection to Pepys.

Phil

On 23 Sep, 2012, at 22:37, terry foreman <terry.foreman@...> wrote:

September 13, 2012
On the Street Where You Live: Real Estate in Literature
Posted by�Ian Crouch

John Lanchester�s recent novel, �Capital,� is full of sharply drawn characters, men and women living at different points on the class spectrum of modern England, whose lives intersect in a series of increasingly fraught episodes. Yet one of its most memorable characters isn�t a person at all, but, rather, a street.

In the book�s brief, shimmering prologue, Lanchester lingers for a moment on �an ordinary-looking street in South London� called Pepys Road, a name that tellingly alludes to Samuel Pepys, a seventeenth-century bureaucrat whose decade-long diary, begun in 1660, has in the years since filled out the historical portrait of London. �Capital� is not a diary, nor is it, though Lanchester is a fine journalist in addition to being a novelist, essentially�journalistic�but it is nonetheless animated by the urge to catalogue and inform. It is a big realist Novel of the Now, and one of its aims is to capture a specific moment in time. That moment is London in 2007 and 2008, on either side of the global financial meltdown, and Pepys Road is at once an illustration of the pre-crash condition of ever-increasing real-estate wealth and a shorthand for the patterns of behavior that built to that tenuous apex.

Read more�http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/on-the-street-where-you-live-real-estate-in-literature.html#ixzz27KaaFVQ0

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#1266

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:35 pm
Subject: Fwd: Britain�s first modern philosopher: The significations of his words | The Economist

thforeman

A new edition of one of Samuel Pepys's famed contemporaries' Magnum Opus.

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Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Subject: Britain�s first modern philosopher: The significations of his words | The Economist
To:

http://www.economist.com/node/21564180 �Hobbes.�

#1267

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:20 am
Subject: Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision, Courtauld Gallery, review

thforeman

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9594480/Peter-Lely-A-Lyrical-Vision-Courtauld-Gallery-review.html

Michail Robinson posted this on Facebook:

Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision, Courtauld Gallery, review

Alastair Sooke is intrigued by this show at the Courtauld Gallery of erotically charged mysteries painted by Peter Lely before he began portraying the debaucheries of Charles II�s court

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#1268

From: Susan Thomas <susan.thomas@...>
Date: Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:42 am
Subject: Re: Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision, Courtauld Gallery, review

susan.thomas@...

This looks to be afascinating exhibition. Thank you for sharing

On 14 October 2012 11:20, terry foreman <terry.foreman@...> wrote:

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Michail Robinson posted this on Facebook:
Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision, Courtauld Gallery, review

Alastair Sooke is intrigued by this show at the Courtauld Gallery of erotically charged mysteries painted by Peter Lely before he began portraying the debaucheries of Charles II�s court

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9594480/Peter-Lely-A-Lyrical-Vision-Courtauld-Gallery-review.html

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#1269

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:05 pm
Subject: Samuel Pepys's procurement principles for defence chiefs [Guardian story]

thforeman

Around 350 years ago, the famous diarist, MP and English naval adminstrator, Samuel Pepys, wrote in his diary that a man had come to his door with an envelope containing several gold coins from a potential contractor. Pepys had asked his servant if the contractor was a reliable one. The servant had assured him that he was, so the gift was accepted.

I was reminded of Pepys's principle that he only received payments from reliable contractors by the explanations of Admiral Trevor Soar, Lieutenant General Richard Applegate, a former head of army procurement, and Lord Stirrup, a former chief of the defence staff, that in effect they lobbied only if they were satisfied that the equipment was of suitable quality.

[ ...more ] http://www.guardian.co.uk/public-leaders-network/2012/oct/16/samuel-pepys-procurement-defence-chiefs?newsfeed=true

#1270

From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Date: Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:37 am
Subject: Fwd: Huguenots of Spitalfields 8 - 21 April 2013

gyford

Begin forwarded message:

From: John Halligan <jhalligan2000@...>
Subject: Huguenots of Spitalfields 8 - 21 April 2013
Date: 19 October, 2012 15:52:24 BST
To: phil@...

Dear Phil

You may recall that John delivered a Pepys Walk for your Group in May of this year.

We thought your members might be interested in a project we've become involved in for next Spring. It's based on gaining recognition for those Huguenots who were evicted from France in the 17th Century and who settled in Spitalfields in East London and made the area famous for their skills as silk weavers, silversmiths and craftsmen. Spitalfields has been a settling place for different migrant groups for centuries and many of the original streets and Huguenot properties have been preserved. Today it's a trendy place to live with the likes of artists Gilbert & George, Tracey Emin and historian Dan Cruikshank taking up residence.

To celebrate a couple of important anniversaries in 2013, a two-week Festival of events has been arranged between 8 & 21 April, with a wonderful range of guided walks, talks and a Market called 'The Big Weave'. Places on walks can be booked by individuals or for groups of between 15 and 25 people. The attached document has details. The website (www.huguenotsofspitalfields.org) should be up and running in a week or two.

John will be one of the Guides on the walks and Joy�s role is 'behind the scenes', organising bookings for some of the events.

Please do feel free to pass on this message and the attachment to anyone you know who may be interested in the Festival.

Best Wishes

John & Joy Halligan

Phil Gyford

Huguenots of Spitalfields - Programme of Events.pdf

1 of 1 File(s)

#1271

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:32 pm
Subject: In the last month Samuel Pepys has been cited and quoted in a variety of internet posts

thforeman

https://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&csid=c64b94a7273beab3

#1272

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Thu Nov 22, 2012 4:58 am
Subject: Fwd: Mexican silver made it into English coins | Earth | Science News

thforeman

Surely it was in English coins minted in Samuel Pepys's time also.

P.S. Happy Thinksgiving to all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_%28United_States%29

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Date: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Subject: Mexican silver made it into English coins | Earth | Science News
To: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346607/title/Mexican_silver_made_it_into_English_coins

#1273

From: "sidneygeorgereilly" <Stevenstvn9@...>
Date: Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:06 am
Subject: New Member

sidneygeorge...

My name is Steven W. Winegardner and I work at the Library of Congress.  I live
at Dupont Circle.  I would like to meet any other readers on this site who live
in the DC METRO area.

#1274

From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Mon Dec 3, 2012 5:42 pm
Subject: Boston Church Will Sell Rare 1640 Book to Fund Building Repairs

thforeman

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - An historic Boston church has decided to sell a copy of the first book published in the American colonies, hoping to get as much as $20 million to make building repairs and sustain its ministry.

By an overwhelming vote on Sunday, members of the Old South Church agreed to sell one of two copies of the psalm book owned by the struggling church and printed in Cambridge in 1640, Senior Minister Nancy Taylor said on Monday.

The church, a nonprofit organization dating back to 1669, was considering the sale because it needs money to maintain its building, a National Historic Landmark built in 1875, and support its work with the public and the poor.

[more]� http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/12/03/us/03reuters-usa-church-boston.html?hp

#1275

From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:39 pm
Subject: Site News: Annotations switched off

gyford

http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/12/10/14006.php

Annotations switched off

I'm experimenting with a few things on the site, with the aim of starting it running again in the New Year. To make this easier for me -- and because very few annotations have been posted recently -- I've turned off the ability to post annotations for a while.

* Much less work for me! Now that the diary text, with links, is already prepared, there will be little for me to do.

* All of the diary entries will remain on the site, so there will be a bit less of a sense of the "big reveal" when "today's" entry appears on the front page.

* We'll still have all of the annotations from the previous run.

I'm not quite promising anything yet, but that's the plan. Feel free to share any thoughts in the Yahoo! Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pepysdiary/>

--
Phil Gyford
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#1276

From: Charles Reiss <charles.reiss@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:52 pm
Subject: Re: Site News: Annotations switched off

charlesseris

So - forgive me for being very slow - does that mean the Diary�might begin all over again, emailed day by day as before, but with fewer bells and whistles. If so, Hurray!!

All best wishes

Charles Reiss

On 10 December 2012 14:39, Phil Gyford <lists@...> wrote:

�

Annotations switched off
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/12/10/14006.php

I'm experimenting with a few things on the site, with the aim of starting it running again in the New Year. To make this easier for me -- and because very few annotations have been posted recently -- I've turned off the ability to post annotations for a while.

* Much less work for me! Now that the diary text, with links, is already prepared, there will be�little for me to do.

* All of the diary entries will remain on the site, so there will be a bit less of a sense of the�"big reveal" when "today's" entry appears on the front page.

* We'll still have all of the annotations from the previous run.

I'm not quite promising anything yet, but that's the plan. Feel free to share any thoughts in�the Yahoo! Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pepysdiary/>

--�
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

#1277

From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:10 pm
Subject: Re: Site News: Annotations switched off

gyford

I can't guarantee emailing - that was a service provided through Feedburner, which has been rumoured to be closing/changing for sometime. But yes, the front page of the site might be updating as it did before.

On 10 Dec, 2012, at 14:52, Charles Reiss <charles.reiss@...> wrote:

So - forgive me for being very slow - does that mean the Diary might begin all over again, emailed day by day as before, but with fewer bells and whistles. If so, Hurray!!

All best wishes

Charles Reiss

On 10 December 2012 14:39, Phil Gyford <lists@...> wrote:

Annotations switched off
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/12/10/14006.php

I'm experimenting with a few things on the site, with the aim of starting it running again in the New Year. To make this easier for me -- and because very few annotations have been posted recently -- I've turned off the ability to post annotations for a while.

* Much less work for me! Now that the diary text, with links, is already prepared, there will be little for me to do.

* All of the diary entries will remain on the site, so there will be a bit less of a sense of the "big reveal" when "today's" entry appears on the front page.

* We'll still have all of the annotations from the previous run.

I'm not quite promising anything yet, but that's the plan. Feel free to share any thoughts in the Yahoo! Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pepysdiary/>

--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

Phil Gyford

#1278

From: langwidge@...
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:18 pm
Subject: Evelyn diary?

albertcorgi

Has the John Evelyn's diary been started? Is it online?

Christine in Baltimore, MD

#1279

From: Bibliophile <Stevenstvn9@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:29 pm
Subject: Re: Site News: Annotations switched off

sidneygeorge...

Is anyone here currently reading Pepys Diary?

Steven W. Winegardner

Washington, DC 20009

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Reiss <charles.reiss@...>
To: pepysdiary <pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Dec 10, 2012 9:53 am
Subject: Re: [pepysdiary] Site News: Annotations switched off

So - forgive me for being very slow - does that mean the Diary might begin all over again, emailed day by day as before, but with fewer bells and whistles. If so, Hurray!!

All best wishes

Charles Reiss

On 10 December 2012 14:39, Phil Gyford <lists@...> wrote:

Annotations switched off

http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/12/10/14006.php

I'm experimenting with a few things on the site, with the aim of starting it running again in the New Year. To make this easier for me -- and because very few annotations have been posted recently -- I've turned off the ability to post annotations for a while.

* Much less work for me! Now that the diary text, with links, is already prepared, there will be little for me to do.

* All of the diary entries will remain on the site, so there will be a bit less of a sense of the "big reveal" when "today's" entry appears on the front page.

* We'll still have all of the annotations from the previous run.

I'm not quite promising anything yet, but that's the plan. Feel free to share any thoughts in the Yahoo! Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pepysdiary/>

--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

#1280

From: "John M" <jm387407@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:04 pm
Subject: Hoping...

jm387407

Hoping the Phil will get the Diary up and running after New Year's.

I have been experiencing Pepys-withdrawal symptoms for some time now!

Cheers,

JM in NC

#1281

From: Eric Mills <ericmills1936@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:30 pm
Subject: RE: Evelyn diary?

theforestofdean

Hello Everybody,

Yes, the Evelyn Diary is on-line and (more or less) well. I had a few problems - my original host was reported 'missing in action' and sank without trace - If you are reading this Hugh, My grateful thanks for your past help.

I moved it (laboriously) to a new and freebie site but discovered a couple of minute (but to me significant) problems to do with hackability and the like ... so, I approached my wife and she kindly hosted the whole shebang (more labour) but with the proviso that I would not do any updating myself but hand it to her and she do a monthly (or so) update.

The situation now is that the Evelyn Diary (Plus date-aware links to Pepys, Plus search engine) can be found at:
http://way-mark.co.uk/bygonedays/evelyn/index.html well, you don't actually need that last bit (/index.html).

Healthwise - Yes ... as well as can be expected (Year 5 of Alzheimer's and the curtains are beginning to close fairly fast - hence my wife's not wishing me to interfere with her web-site !)

I've completed all the original pages and footnotes and then started (ever hopeful) on a re-run of the footnotes adding new and more detailed ones and ensuring that the original notes and 'hovertext' comments were findable by the search engine (Danged thing wouldn't recognise javascript comments). The latest set of detailed footnotes go upto 10th October, 1644 - but now I'm down to a crawling speed of about one additional footnoted page per three or four days ... so, I think we can probably say that where we are at is where we'll stay ... unless someone is prepared to help out a short-sighted forgetful old fart.

Still 2,660+ pages is not too bad.

In friendship,
Eric.
Direct Diary eMail: evelyndiary@...
(I can't seem to remember how to make that clickable)

PS: Any one finding a typo or error of any kind - please, email me and I will, at the speed of Sebastian Snail, fix it. (Also anyone who is latin-capable and willing to translate any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the grid.)

To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
From: langwidge@...
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:18:25 +0000
Subject: [pepysdiary] Evelyn diary?

Has the John Evelyn's diary been started? Is it online?

Christine in Baltimore, MD

#1282

From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:57 pm
Subject: Re: Evelyn diary?

gyford

Hi Eric,

I just noticed that the menu navigation isn't working for me (on a Mac, on the latest version of Google Chrome).

It seems there's an error in the Javascript in the page, specifically this line:

var enl_buttonurl[0] = 'prev';

I'd suggest removing the { and } around all those lines, and removing the 'var ' from the start of each line... that might fix things.

Phil

On 10 Dec, 2012, at 17:30, Eric Mills <ericmills1936@...> wrote:

Hello Everybody,

Yes, the Evelyn Diary is on-line and (more or less) well. I had a few problems - my original host was reported 'missing in action' and sank without trace - If you are reading this Hugh, My grateful thanks for your past help.

I moved it (laboriously) to a new and freebie site but discovered a couple of minute (but to me significant) problems to do with hackability and the like ... so, I approached my wife and she kindly hosted the whole shebang (more labour) but with the proviso that I would not do any updating myself but hand it to her and she do a monthly (or so) update.

The situation now is that the Evelyn Diary (Plus date-aware links to Pepys, Plus search engine) can be found at:
http://way-mark.co.uk/bygonedays/evelyn/index.html well, you don't actually need that last bit (/index.html).

Healthwise - Yes ... as well as can be expected (Year 5 of Alzheimer's and the curtains are beginning to close fairly fast - hence my wife's not wishing me to interfere with her web-site !)

I've completed all the original pages and footnotes and then started (ever hopeful) on a re-run of the footnotes adding new and more detailed ones and ensuring that the original notes and 'hovertext' comments were findable by the search engine (Danged thing wouldn't recognise javascript comments). The latest set of detailed footnotes go upto 10th October, 1644 - but now I'm down to a crawling speed of about one additional footnoted page per three or four days ... so, I think we can probably say that where we are at is where we'll stay ... unless someone is prepared to help out a short-sighted forgetful old fart.

Still 2,660+ pages is not too bad.

In friendship,
Eric.
Direct Diary eMail: evelyndiary@...
(I can't seem to remember how to make that clickable)

PS: Any one finding a typo or error of any kind - please, email me and I will, at the speed of Sebastian Snail, fix it. (Also anyone who is latin-capable and willing to translate any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the grid.)

To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
From: langwidge@...
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:18:25 +0000
Subject: [pepysdiary] Evelyn diary?

Has the John Evelyn's diary been started? Is it online?

Christine in Baltimore, MD

Phil Gyford

#1283

From: "if455kc" <if455kc@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:22 pm
Subject: Re: Evelyn diary?

if455kc

--- In pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com, Eric Mills <ericmills1936@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Yes, the Evelyn Diary is on-line and (more or less) well. I had a few problems
- my original host was reported 'missing in action' and sank without trace - If
you are reading this Hugh, My grateful thanks for your past help.
>
> I moved it (laboriously) to a new and freebie site but discovered a couple of
minute (but to me significant) problems to do with hackability and the like ...
so, I approached my wife and she kindly hosted  the whole shebang (more labour)
but with the proviso that I would not do any updating myself but hand it to her
and she do a monthly (or so) update.
>
> The situation now is that the Evelyn Diary (Plus date-aware links to Pepys,
Plus search engine) can be found at:
> http://way-mark.co.uk/bygonedays/evelyn/index.html well, you don't actually
need that last bit (/index.html).
>
> Healthwise - Yes ... as well as can be expected (Year 5 of Alzheimer's and the
curtains are beginning to close fairly fast - hence my wife's not wishing me to
interfere with her web-site !)
>
> I've completed all the original pages and footnotes and then started (ever
hopeful) on a re-run of the footnotes adding new and more detailed ones and
ensuring that the original notes and 'hovertext' comments were findable by the
search engine (Danged thing wouldn't recognise javascript comments). The latest
set of detailed footnotes go upto 10th October, 1644 - but now I'm down to a
crawling speed of about one additional footnoted page per three or four days ...
so, I think we can probably say that where we are at is where we'll stay ...
unless someone is prepared to help out a short-sighted forgetful old fart.
>
> Still 2,660+ pages is not too bad.
>
> In friendship,
> Eric.
> Direct Diary eMail: evelyndiary@...
> (I can't seem to remember how to make that clickable)
>
> PS: Any one finding a typo or error of any kind - please, email me and I will,
at the speed of Sebastian Snail, fix it. (Also anyone who is latin-capable and
willing to translate any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the
grid.)
>
>
> To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
> From: langwidge@...
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:18:25 +0000
> Subject: [pepysdiary] Evelyn diary?
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"(...any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the grid.)"

Tsk.

Latin was very much a part of Pepys' world so perhaps this is not an
unacceptable digression.

Latin, especially as we encounter it in later material, may have its
shortcomings but "atrocious" is an adjective more properly applied to this
language of English, surly. The "machinery" of Latin is a Swiss watch compared
to the dog's breakfast that is English's grammar, orthography and pronunciation.

Will anyone agree?

Hic senex scholaticus non. Vivat omnes et vale!

#1284

From: "if455kc" <if455kc@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:28 pm
Subject: Re: Evelyn diary?

if455kc

--- In pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com, Eric Mills <ericmills1936@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Yes, the Evelyn Diary is on-line and (more or less) well. I had a few problems
- my original host was reported 'missing in action' and sank without trace - If
you are reading this Hugh, My grateful thanks for your past help.
>
> I moved it (laboriously) to a new and freebie site but discovered a couple of
minute (but to me significant) problems to do with hackability and the like ...
so, I approached my wife and she kindly hosted  the whole shebang (more labour)
but with the proviso that I would not do any updating myself but hand it to her
and she do a monthly (or so) update.
>
> The situation now is that the Evelyn Diary (Plus date-aware links to Pepys,
Plus search engine) can be found at:
> http://way-mark.co.uk/bygonedays/evelyn/index.html well, you don't actually
need that last bit (/index.html).
>
> Healthwise - Yes ... as well as can be expected (Year 5 of Alzheimer's and the
curtains are beginning to close fairly fast - hence my wife's not wishing me to
interfere with her web-site !)
>
> I've completed all the original pages and footnotes and then started (ever
hopeful) on a re-run of the footnotes adding new and more detailed ones and
ensuring that the original notes and 'hovertext' comments were findable by the
search engine (Danged thing wouldn't recognise javascript comments). The latest
set of detailed footnotes go upto 10th October, 1644 - but now I'm down to a
crawling speed of about one additional footnoted page per three or four days ...
so, I think we can probably say that where we are at is where we'll stay ...
unless someone is prepared to help out a short-sighted forgetful old fart.
>
> Still 2,660+ pages is not too bad.
>
> In friendship,
> Eric.
> Direct Diary eMail: evelyndiary@...
> (I can't seem to remember how to make that clickable)
>
> PS: Any one finding a typo or error of any kind - please, email me and I will,
at the speed of Sebastian Snail, fix it. (Also anyone who is latin-capable and
willing to translate any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the
grid.)
>
>
> To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
> From: langwidge@...
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:18:25 +0000
> Subject: [pepysdiary] Evelyn diary?
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> Christine in Baltimore, MD






"(...any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the grid.)"

Tsk.

Latin was very much a part of Pepys' world so perhaps this is not an
unacceptable digression.

Latin, especially as we encounter it in later material, may have its
shortcomings but "atrocious" is an adjective more properly applied to this
language of English, surly. The "machinery" of Latin is a Swiss watch compared
to the dog's breakfast that is English's grammar, orthography and pronunciation.

Will anyone agree?

Hic senex scholaticus non. Vivat omnes et vale!

The signature was not automatically added to the post above regarding the merits
of Latin and English. It is from John Nightingale in New Westminster, Canada;
very much a fan of Phil's grand endeavour.

#1285

From: "if455kc" <if455kc@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:32 pm
Subject: Re: Evelyn diary?

if455kc

--- In pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com, Eric Mills <ericmills1936@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Yes, the Evelyn Diary is on-line and (more or less) well. I had a few problems
- my original host was reported 'missing in action' and sank without trace - If
you are reading this Hugh, My grateful thanks for your past help.
>
> I moved it (laboriously) to a new and freebie site but discovered a couple of
minute (but to me significant) problems to do with hackability and the like ...
so, I approached my wife and she kindly hosted  the whole shebang (more labour)
but with the proviso that I would not do any updating myself but hand it to her
and she do a monthly (or so) update.
>
> The situation now is that the Evelyn Diary (Plus date-aware links to Pepys,
Plus search engine) can be found at:
> http://way-mark.co.uk/bygonedays/evelyn/index.html well, you don't actually
need that last bit (/index.html).
>
> Healthwise - Yes ... as well as can be expected (Year 5 of Alzheimer's and the
curtains are beginning to close fairly fast - hence my wife's not wishing me to
interfere with her web-site !)
>
> I've completed all the original pages and footnotes and then started (ever
hopeful) on a re-run of the footnotes adding new and more detailed ones and
ensuring that the original notes and 'hovertext' comments were findable by the
search engine (Danged thing wouldn't recognise javascript comments). The latest
set of detailed footnotes go upto 10th October, 1644 - but now I'm down to a
crawling speed of about one additional footnoted page per three or four days ...
so, I think we can probably say that where we are at is where we'll stay ...
unless someone is prepared to help out a short-sighted forgetful old fart.
>
> Still 2,660+ pages is not too bad.
>
> In friendship,
> Eric.
> Direct Diary eMail: evelyndiary@...
> (I can't seem to remember how to make that clickable)
>
> PS: Any one finding a typo or error of any kind - please, email me and I will,
at the speed of Sebastian Snail, fix it. (Also anyone who is latin-capable and
willing to translate any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the
grid.)
>
>
> To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
> From: langwidge@...
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:18:25 +0000
> Subject: [pepysdiary] Evelyn diary?
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>       Has the John Evelyn's diary been started?  Is it online?
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> Christine in Baltimore, MD






"(...any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the grid.)"

Tsk.

Latin was very much a part of Pepys' world so perhaps this is not an
unacceptable digression.

Latin, especially as we encounter it in later material, may have its
shortcomings but "atrocious" is an adjective more properly applied to this
language of English, surly. The "machinery" of Latin is a Swiss watch compared
to the dog's breakfast that is English's grammar, orthography and pronunciation.

Will anyone agree?

Hic senex scholaticus non. Vivat omnes et vale!

The signature was not automatically added to the post above regarding the merits
of Latin and English. It is from John Nightingale in New Westminster, Canada;
very much a fan of Phil's grand endeavour.

#1286

From: Eric Mills <ericmills1936@...>
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:45 pm
Subject: RE: Re: Evelyn diary?

theforestofdean

Dear if455kc,

I truly and seriously repent - to rub salt into my wounds: "Mea culpa"

When I first started Latin at boarding school - all my classmates were two years ahead of me (I was starting from zilch). They were busy parsing, conjugating and mouthing abstruse words I didna comprehend. A further indignity was that I was supposed to imagine talking to a table ... I was still trying to work out to what place the pronouns had gone (English, French and German had them so why not the Romans). Not an excuse but an explanationof why I found Latin an atrocious language (for me to cope with). I suppose, like Winnie the Pooh, I am a bear with a very small brain.

That said - a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

In friendship,
Eric.

To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
From: if455kc@...
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:32:37 +0000
Subject: [pepysdiary] Re: Evelyn diary?

--- In pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com, Eric Mills <ericmills1936@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Yes, the Evelyn Diary is on-line and (more or less) well. I had a few problems - my original host was reported 'missing in action' and sank without trace - If you are reading this Hugh, My grateful thanks for your past help.
>
> I moved it (laboriously) to a new and freebie site but discovered a couple of minute (but to me significant) problems to do with hackability and the like ... so, I approached my wife and she kindly hosted the whole shebang (more labour) but with the proviso that I would not do any updating myself but hand it to her and she do a monthly (or so) update.
>
> The situation now is that the Evelyn Diary (Plus date-aware links to Pepys, Plus search engine) can be found at:
> http://way-mark.co.uk/bygonedays/evelyn/index.html well, you don't actually need that last bit (/index.html).
>
> Healthwise - Yes ... as well as can be expected (Year 5 of Alzheimer's and the curtains are beginning to close fairly fast - hence my wife's not wishing me to interfere with her web-site !)
>
> I've completed all the original pages and footnotes and then started (ever hopeful) on a re-run of the footnotes adding new and more detailed ones and ensuring that the original notes and 'hovertext' comments were findable by the search engine (Danged thing wouldn't recognise javascript comments). The latest set of detailed footnotes go upto 10th October, 1644 - but now I'm down to a crawling speed of about one additional footnoted page per three or four days ... so, I think we can probably say that where we are at is where we'll stay ... unless someone is prepared to help out a short-sighted forgetful old fart.
>
> Still 2,660+ pages is not too bad.
>
> In friendship,
> Eric.
> Direct Diary eMail: evelyndiary@...
> (I can't seem to remember how to make that clickable)
>
> PS: Any one finding a typo or error of any kind - please, email me and I will, at the speed of Sebastian Snail, fix it. (Also anyone who is latin-capable and willing to translate any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the grid.)
>
>
> To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
> From: langwidge@...
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:18:25 +0000
> Subject: [pepysdiary] Evelyn diary?
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> Has the John Evelyn's diary been started? Is it online?
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> Christine in Baltimore, MD

"(...any of that atrocious language, please, step up to the grid.)"

Tsk.

Latin was very much a part of Pepys' world so perhaps this is not an unacceptable digression.

Latin, especially as we encounter it in later material, may have its shortcomings but "atrocious" is an adjective more properly applied to this language of English, surly. The "machinery" of Latin is a Swiss watch compared to the dog's breakfast that is English's grammar, orthography and pronunciation.

Will anyone agree?

Hic senex scholaticus non. Vivat omnes et vale!

The signature was not automatically added to the post above regarding the merits of Latin and English. It is from John Nightingale in New Westminster, Canada; very much a fan of Phil's grand endeavour.

#1287

From: "Mark Hazard" <mhazard@...>
Date: Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:24 am
Subject: Re: Re: Evelyn diary?

mrdewey1

Eric,

If you're still looking for help with passages in Latin, I'll do what I can. I'm sure there are better Latinists on the pepyslist, but I do have some experience with it (I teach it in high school, and have done some translating).

--Mark Hazard

-----Original Message-----
From: "if455kc" [if455kc@...]
Date: 12/10/2012 02:32 PM
To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [pepysdiary] Re: Evelyn diary?