In this issue: Today in History - January 18 Re: The Man in Grey Happy Birthday Edgar "The Music Essence" Today in History - Jan. 19 Happy Birthday Poe Re: Happy Birthday Poe Re: Happy Birthday Poe Today in History - Jan. 20 Today in History - Jan. 21 Re: "The Music Essence" [Fwd: "The Music Essence"] Re: "The Music Essence" Re: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"] RE: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"] Today in History - Jan. 22 <FWD> Suffragists oral histories now available online search lost Re: search lost Re: search lost Today in History - Jan. 25 Re: Gaslight Digest V1 #35 Gaslight reading-- -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:06:59 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - January 18 1836 Knife aficionado Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders. 1862 John Tyler, former president of the U.S., was buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. 1902 The Isthmus Canal Commission in Washington shifts its support to Panama as the canal site. 1910 Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first successful take off and landing from a ship in San Francisco. 1916 The Russians force the Turkish 3rd Army back to Erzurum. Born on January 18 1782 Daniel Webster, Congressman from New Hampshire, Massachusetts senator, and Secretary of State before the Civil War. 1813 Joseph Glidden, inventor. 1858 Daniel Hale Williams, the first physician to perform open heart surgery and founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago, Ill. 1882 A.A. [Alan Alexander] Milne, novelist, humorist and journalist who wrote Winnie the Pooh. 1892 Oliver Hardy, member of Laurel and Hardy comedy duo who starred in numerous films. 1904 Cary Grant, U.S. actor famous for his roles in The Philadelphia Story and North by Northwest.
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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:25:15 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Re: The Man in Grey Way back on Jan. 7 (is there any way to speed up delivery of the digests?), Stephen followed up on Patricia T.'s opener... >The Man in Grey is a curious anti-hero. He's sent by the national Ministry of Police to track down, within France, agitators against Napoleon's empire. The local law enforcement agencies are slack, and therefore resent his successes, and the Chouans (pro-Royalist rebels) are direly antagonistic to him. Even the innocents who are aided by his fancy brainwork don't send any positive words his way. He's just not liked. The entire concept seems to have been an attempt by Orczy to present the antithesis of Pimpernel, of whom she must have written countless stories by the time she created the Man in Grey (1919). Part of the reverse image of >Pimpernel may also have included being unliked. A wild theory I have (which I don't see can be proven or disproven by "Silver-Leg") is that the Man in Grey is Chauvelin (although I will grant tMiG doesn't show C's overfondness for snuff), and that the Chouans may have been aided at some point by the Scarlet Pimpernel - who you may recall had aided the Aristos during the Revolution, belonged to a nation with no love for Napoleon at the time, and who would have been about 53 when Boney met his Waterloo. On another matter, I was disappointed that tMiG felt compelled to execute Hare-Lip and Mole-Skin himself, rather than leaning elsewhere in his investigation that they were utterly ignorant of Sainte-Tropez/Silver-Leg's secret, and leaving them to the offstage guillotine. But this does tie in well to the anti-Pimpernel theory. Jerry gmc(at)libra.pvh.org
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:56:38 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Happy Birthday Edgar Edgar Allen Poe, January 19, 1809 Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:56:44 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: "The Music Essence" The following excerpt about "The Music Essence" is from Don Dulchinos's biography of Ludlow. The excerpt pretty much gives away the plot, just in case you haven't read the story. [Beginning of excerpt.] "The Music Essence" appeared on New Year's Eve in the _New York Commercial Advertiser_....The story was the lead item of the holiday supplement, and featured a large byline and the legend "WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE COMMERICAL ADVERTISER." The story's central thematic concern with music grew out of his [Ludlow's] exposure to the New York music scene as reviewer and "operatic gossip" columnist with the _Evening Post_. Indeed, contemporary performers like D'Angri and Carl Forms, whom Fitz Hugh had praised in reviews, were called upon here to flesh out the story. In it a young man falls in love with a beautiful deaf mute. He believes she is so sensitive that if he can translate music so it may be apprehended through a sense other than hearing, she will derive more pleasure from it than the most sensitive ear. He does this through an invention that converts sound into color, which he christens the _kaleidophone_. "The Music Essence" represents a further development in Fitz Hugh's style. The story seems clearly a vehicle to present his musings into the nature of music itself. The narrative bogs down at one point as Fitz Hugh expounds on the subject: Music in its pure scientific aspect is quite independent of sound-- uses sound only as it ordinary normal expression--and by all the more delicate intellects--the poets especially--is constantly translated according to a system of analogies, into other than audible forms....All music it seemed to me, finally resolves itself itself into a science of tensions, and one nerve as well as another may convey the relations of tension, provided that we attain the means best calculated to awake their plea through the senses.` ..... The story is also a departure in plot resolution. Again, with the freedom from formula afforded by the setting of this story in the _New York Commercial Advertiser_ (i.e., not _Harper's_), Fitz Hugh is not obligated to include a happy ending. Indeed, after his beloved deaf mute undergoes an operation to restore her hearing he finds her sensitive nature is overcome by a world in which there is "too much noise. I do not hear enough music." She eventually wastes away and dies, now "amopng the music of the Angels!" but leaving the narrator alone in tragedy. The ending is well foreshadowed by the departure in style. Fitz Hugh not only begins the story with a short, vague description of an earlier tragedy in which the narraotr narrowly avoids jail, but also refrains from virtually all puns, humorous asides and other wordplay that had been his trademark up to this time. [End of excerpt.] Bob C. _________________________________________________ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Robert L. Champ rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity Those who are alive receive a mandate from those who are silent forever. They can fulfill their duties only by trying to reconstruct precisely things as they were and by wresting the past from fictions and legends. --Czeslaw Milosz rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net _________________________________________________ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:25:04 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Jan. 19 1847 New Mexico Governor Charles Bent is slain by Pueblo Indians in Taos. 1861 Georgia secedes from the Union. 1902 The magazine "L'Auto" announces the new Tour de France. 1915 The first German air raids on Great Britain inflict minor casualties. Born on January 19 1807 Robert E. Lee, Confederate general of the Civil War. 1809 Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet best known for his stories "Fall of the House of Usher " and "The Tell-Tale Heart." His most famous poems are "The Raven" and Annabel Lee." 1839 Paul C?zanne, French post-Impressionist painter, best remembered for his works Card Players and L'Oeuvre. 1919 John H. Johnson, editor and publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines.
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:17:05 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Happy Birthday Poe Read THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER for his birthday and now a modern sequel called MADELEINE:RETURN TO USHER. Will the bottle of whisky and flower appear or is this in October on his death? Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:52:43 -0500 From: clementk(at)alink.com (Clement, Kevin) Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Poe At 07:17 PM 1/19/99 -0700, you wrote: >Read THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER for his birthday and now a modern >sequel called MADELEINE:RETURN TO USHER. Will the bottle of whisky and >flower appear or is this in October on his death? > >Deborah > >Deborah McMillion >deborah(at)gloaming.com >http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html According to Fox News/AP, the cognac and three roses appeared yesterday. from http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/wires2/0119/n_ap_0119_81.sml The Wire has a version with pictures of his grave at: http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=NATIONAL&STORYID=APIS6QI 7Q680 which is a direct link to the story but you may have to go to http://wire.ap.org ,select a wire source close to you, and do a search for poe (I've had problems with direct links to stories on this site before) Mysterious stranger leaves roses, cognac on macabre poet's grave 7.42 a.m. ET (1243 GMT) January 19, 1999 By Alex Dominguez, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) ? A mysterious stranger clad in a three-quarter length black peacoat left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe early today, continuing a tradition that began 50 years ago. About a dozen people waited inside and outside Westminster Church until the tall, unknown visitor made his arrival at the tiny brick-walled cemetery just before 3 a.m. EST. The stranger placed his hands on Poe's tombstone and appeared to pray. A moment later he was gone, leaving three roses and a bottle of cognac to mark the 190th birthday of the macabre author. The identity of the first mysterious visitor, who had been dressed in black topcoat and fedora, has remained a riddle since the ritual began in 1949, a century after Poe died. The aging visitor believed to be the original carried on the tradition until 1993, when he left a cryptic note saying, "The torch will be passed.'' His followers have agreed to carry on the anonymous annual tribute, said Jeff Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore. "They said they would continue the tradition in his footsteps,'' Jerome said. "I don't want to say too much more because some of the note's contents are of a private nature. I'm not trying to be mysterious, but some of this has to remain with me because it may give a clue as to who it is.'' Poe penned classic horror stories such as "The Fall of the House of Usher,'' "The Pit and the Pendulum,'' "The Telltale Heart'' and "The Masque of the Red Death.'' His famous poems include "The Raven'' and "Annabel Lee.'' He lived in Baltimore from 1829 to 1836 and died here in 1849 at age 40. The three roses left each year are thought to represent the poet, his wife, and her mother. All are buried in the tiny cemetery. Lynne Finley, of Nashville, Tenn. spent the night at the church with her sister, D.J. Gaskin, of Burke, Va. to celebrate Ms. Finley's 40th birthday, which she shares with Poe. "Knowing that the tradition will be carried on was encouraging, but I was a little saddened,'' Ms. Finley said. Her sister said the atmosphere was "almost spooky.'' "Its such a mysterious devotion,'' Ms. Gaskin said. "And the cemetery is almost like a little time capsule in the middle of the city. It's beautiful.'' Kevin Clement clementk(at)alink.com
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:58:37 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Poe >The Wire has a version with pictures of his grave at: > >http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=NATIONAL&STORYID=APIS6Q17Q6 >80 Thanks to Kevin for this story. I had no trouble with the direct link by selecting it. However, my mail makes things a "hot link" and all the numbers didn't get in to the "hotness" part. The pictures make it better. Thank you for answering my Poe query. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:55:36 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Jan. 20 1841 Hong Kong is ceded to Great Britain from China as part of the concessions from the Opium War. 1908 The Sullivan Ordinance bars women from smoking in public facilities in the United States [funny, I don't remember Sullivan scoring this ordinance in either "I've Got A Little List" or "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" &8-{) ]. Born on January 20 1820 Anne Clough, promoter of higher education. 1893 Bessy Colman, first African American aviator. 1896 George Burns, vaudeville comedian and actor. hosted radio and television show with his wife Gracie Allen before going into movie like The Sunshine Boys 1910 Joy Adamson, British author and naturalist who lived in Kenya and wrote Born Free.
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:23:10 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Jan. 21 1910 Japan rejects the American proposal to neutralize ownership of the Manchurian Railway. 1919 The German Krupp plant begins producing guns under the U.S. armistice terms. Born on Jan. 21 1821 John Breckinridge, 14th U.S. Vice President. 1824 Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate General
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 01:26:10 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: Re: "The Music Essence" On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard L. King wrote: > I should note that Ludlow's protagonist is quite concerned with religious > faith, that he (as does the deaf student) believes music comes from God. > Again, I don't know what it all means, but it is a very different piece of > fiction than we usually read (just my opinion), and...well...I liked it. > Ludlow himself was the son of a Presbyterian minister, a well-known abolitionist whose house and church were attacked by white mobs in New York in the mid-1850s. (The elder Ludlow was also involved in the Armistead affair, about which Steven Spielberg made a film recently). Fitz Hugh took the route often followed by "preachers' kids" and rebelled--in this case, a rebellion that lasted to the end of his short life. Yet his interest in religion never wavered. Even his drug experimentation (he is most famous for his DeQuincyesque _The Hasheesh Eater_) became a way, mistaken though it was, of looking for God, of finding an avenue into the things of the spirit that he seemed to crave. As a writer, Ludlow was a member of the Bohemian crowd in New York that gathered at Pfaff's, an eatery associated in these years with Walt Whitman. One member of this group of young writers we have encountered before on Gaslight, Fitzjames O'Brien. Another still was Thomas Bailey Aldritch, best known as the author of _The Story of A Bad Boy_ (the hero is a kind of Eastern Tom Sawyer). The chief literary deity of the group (Whitman excepted, of course) was Edgar Allan Poe, so it is not so odd that Poe's influence can be found in Ludlow's work, more particularly in "The Phial of Dread," which we read some time ago, and "A Strange Acquaintance of Mine"-- this one has a New Orleans setting--than in "The Music Essence." One of Ludlow's college friends became a teacher of the deaf, and I wonder if he did not take Fitz Hugh to such a school as the latter describes in the story. It is, in any case, an interesting place, and the story has value even if it is only as a look at the kinds of provisions then made for the deaf, at least at the better institutions. Ludlow's pictures of such places (so rarely touched by other writers), and of the New York of the 1850s, constitute a good deal of my interest in him. He gives me a sense of what it was like to live in that place and time that I have not found in any other writer--and just for the reason you mention, Richard: Ludlow, for all his wondrous tales, was, to a great extent, a realist. This realism might extend even to the fanciful part of the tale, the construction of the _kaleidophone_. What we have hear, it seems to me, is a mechanical representation of the synesthetic experience, which Ludlow might well have known from his hashish experiments. Btw, Ludlow was a friend of the young Mark Twain. What impressed me as well about this story is that neither Margaret nor the other students at the school are presented as pathetic. Indeed, by the end Margaret's deafness appears almost preferable to the hearing world of her husband, which is so full of noise and cacophony. Thinking of it I was reminded of Keats's line about the "spirit ditties of no tone" and Wallace Stevens's assurance (in "Peter Quince at the Clavier") that "Music is feeling, then, not sound." I think that these lines capture the paradox of the story, set up so beautifully in the title, that the finest music is not necessarily that which we hear with our mortal ears. This is a lesson the narrator comes to learn too late. I am now reading, whenever I get a few spare moments, Don Dulchinos's biography, _Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater_. Ludlow led an extraordinary life, and left behind a body of work at least the equivalent in style and substance to many of the 19th century writers now being touted as neglected geniuses. And indeed Ludlow has been almost forgotten. As for the religious element in "The Music Essence," the perspective that the narrator and Margaret bring to it would not have been at all uncommon in America at this period--and yet in much of the literature from the time we read nowadays it seems missing. Here is another aspect of Ludlow's story that I appreciate: I find that I'm in the presence of real 19th century Americans, or at least ones that I can identify and have empathy for. Well, I have gone on for quite some time. Hope other Gaslighters will read this tale, which--as Richard implies--is weird in a way that we have never seen weird done before. Bob C. _________________________________________________ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Robert L. 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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:29:58 -0500 From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU> Subject: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------F59D61E9999C0FA38A381360 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I realized this morning that I sent the following posting to Bob alone instead of the entire list, so I'm reposting to Gaslight. Richard King - --------------F59D61E9999C0FA38A381360 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <36A7F9AD.6EBDB6E2(at)indian.vinu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 23:08:13 -0500 From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)indian.vinu.edu> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: Re: "The Music Essence" References: <A6029978C3463891052566FE0057BA72.0057BB43052566FE(at)vinu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I finished this interesting, but very weird, story last night. I'd say Bob's post about sums up the story, at least as to the plot. What struck me about "The Music Essence" is how, well, 20th C. the writing style is for what I think was written in 1861). I have been reading quite a bit of Noir fiction these days and when I started this week's story at first I thought I was reading a tale by one of the 1950s paperback geniuses like Cornell Woolrich, Peter Rabe, or maybe John D. MacDonald in his early days (Ha! I'll bet that's the first time THESE names have been bandied about on Gaslight!) Ludlow's fiction that has noir *edge* to it and makes one read onward, forward, onward. There is also a little something of both Poe and Ambrose Bierce in Ludlow's writing style that gives one an edge-of-the-seat doom-is-looming feeling that is quite pleasant. I can't really pretend I understand what "The Music Essence" is all about, and I don't understand the concepts of how music can be viewed in colors by a deaf person, or even how a deaf person can learn to actually play music (the woman does this, and she doesn't memorize, but somehow does it through understanding musical concepts and enjoying music in a much different way than do most of us). I should note that Ludlow's protagonist is quite concerned with religious faith, that he (as does the deaf student) believes music comes from God. Again, I don't know what it all means, but it is a very different piece of fiction than we usually read (just my opinion), and...well...I liked it. Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu Robert Champ wrote: > The following excerpt about "The Music Essence" is from Don Dulchinos's > biography of Ludlow. The excerpt pretty much gives away the plot, > just in case you haven't read the story. > > [Beginning of excerpt.] snip - --------------F59D61E9999C0FA38A381360--
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:12:18 -0500 From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU> Subject: Re: "The Music Essence" Bob wrote: > the reason you mention, Richard: Ludlow, for all his wondrous tales, > was, to a great extent, a realist. This realism might extend even to I suppose this is why I see this story as a 19th century noir work, or certainly fiction with an edge. > > the fanciful part of the tale, the construction of the _kaleidophone_. > What we have hear, it seems to me, is a mechanical representation > of the synesthetic experience, which Ludlow might well have known from > his hashish experiments. Not to mention the hashish as adding to noirish attitudes. > What impressed me as well about this story is that neither Margaret > nor the other students at the school are presented as pathetic. Indeed, Can you imagine how Dickens would treat a deaf asylum? > > As for the religious element in "The Music Essence," the perspective > that the narrator and Margaret bring to it would not have been at all > uncommon in America at this period--and yet in much of the literature > from the time we read nowadays it seems missing. Here is another aspect This is very true. Modern fiction often doesn't have people doing things people do: attend church, have families, drive their son/daughter to choir practice at 7 a.m., check out books at the library, generally being happy. I suppose it is because these aspects of life are considered boring and don't make good copy. Modern fiction is a fiction of unhappiness and the Creating Writing Lab, perhaps? Who would want to read a novel about...me? > > of Ludlow's story that I appreciate: I find that I'm in the presence > of real 19th century Americans, or at least ones that I can identify > and have empathy for. Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:38:01 -0700 (MST) From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Re: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"] Richard King asked: >>>I can't really pretend I understand what "The Music Essence" is all about, and I don't understand the concepts of how music can be viewed in colors by a deaf person, or even how a deaf person can learn to actually play music (the woman does this, and she doesn't memorize, but somehow does it through understanding musical concepts and enjoying music in a much different way than do most of us).<<< There was a discussion on "Synaesthesia" on Gaslight a year or so ago which may have something of relevance to Richard's problem. I can see that if one visualises the musical scale as a colour spectrum, with octave chabges in hue or brightness, say, one could visualise a chord as a mixture of colours, or perhaps as a wallpaper pattern. Some science-fiction writer has treated this, but I can't recall who it was off-hand. Peter Wood
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:47:37 -0500 From: "Roberts, Leonard" <lroberts(at)email.uncc.edu> Subject: RE: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"] The protagonist in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination suffers synaesthesia after a severe shock. But all his senses were 'scrambled', not just sight/sound. I thought it was well done but that is one of my favorite science fiction works. Len Roberts > There was a discussion on "Synaesthesia" on Gaslight a year or so ago > which may have something of relevance to Richard's problem. I can see that > if one visualises the musical scale as a colour spectrum, with octave > chabges in hue or brightness, say, one could visualise a chord as a > mixture of colours, or perhaps as a wallpaper pattern. Some > science-fiction writer has treated this, but I can't recall who it was > off-hand. > Peter Wood
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:56:56 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Jan. 22 1807 President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest. 1813 During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit. 1824 A British force is wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast. This is the first defeat for a colonial power. 1863 In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march north Frederickburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as "Mud March." 1897 Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in South Africa. 1905 Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg. 1912 Second Monte-Carlo auto race begins. 1913 Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up Adrianpole. Born on January 22 1788 Lord George Byron, English romantic poet, best known for "Lara," and "Don Juan." 1874 D.W. [David Wark] Griffith, U.S. director, the most influential figure in early film history, made The Birth of A Nation and Intolerance. 1890 Fred Vinson, Thirteenth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 1906 Willa Brown-Chappell, pioneering aviator. 1909 U Thant, Secretary General of United Nations General Assembly who played a major role in the Cuban crisis.
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:58:49 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: <FWD> Suffragists oral histories now available online - ---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 01/22/99 12:57 PM --------------------------- Please respond to Merrilee Proffitt <mproffit(at)library.berkeley.edu> To: TEI-L(at)LISTSERV.UIC.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC) Subject: Suffragists oral histories now available online New TEI-based collection now available! In the early 1970s the Suffragists Oral History Project, under the auspices of the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, collected interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the woman's suffrage movement. Tape-recorded and transcribed oral histories preserved the memories of these remarkable women, documenting formative experiences, activities to win the right to vote for women, and careers as leaders of the movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace, and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Now, 25 years later, the nineteenth century meets the twenty-first as the words of these activist women, born from the 1860s to the 1890s, are made accessible for future scholarly research and public information via the Internet. Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are represented here with full-length oral histories. These include Alice Paul, founder and leader of the more militant organization called the National Woman's Party, which made suffrage a mainstream issue through public demonstrations and protests; Sara Bard Field, a mother, lover, poet, and social and political reformer, whose interactions with California artists and political activists gave her a national profile; Burnita Shelton Matthews, a District of Columbia federal judge; Helen Valeska Bary, who campaigned for woman's suffrage in Los Angeles and later had a prominent career in labor and social security administration; Jeannette Rankin, a Montana suffrage campaigner and the first woman elected to Congress, who recalls Carrie Chapman Catt, the League of Women Voters, and her lifelong work for world peace; Mabel Vernon, who is credited for the advance work of gathering the throngs of people to greet Alice Paul and her entourage on their famous coast-to-coast suffrage campaign in the fall of 1915; and Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, who gives an account of working with Alice Paul in organizing the Woman's Party. The oral histories of five rank-and-file suffragists are collected in The Suffragists: From Tea-Parties to Prison, conducted by Sherna Gluck, director of the Feminist History Research Project. These women spoke out for suffrage from horse-drawn wagons and streetcorner soapboxes. Some discussed politics in genteel tea parties, others were arrested for picketing for suffrage in front of the White House. These five interviews represent the diversity of ordinary women who made woman's suffrage a reality, documenting their motivations and ethical convictions, their family, social, and regional backgrounds, and their part in the campaign for women's right to vote. The oral histories are now available online, and we invite you to use them. The address is: http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:54:53 -0500 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: search lost I did a search for Harper's Weekly. and Harpers Monthly. I got Oprah Winfrey! Help? I'm more interested in stories that were illustrated by Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth, not Oprah Winfrey! <G> And for those of you who don't remember what Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg PA is like, don't tell me to go to my "local university". Unless one is enrolled as a student there, one cannot get into their catalog, take out books, get into the library to read the collection or anything. If anyone can help me find collections of Harpers at Bucknell University, they welcome anyone and I have a library card for there but it is a 45 minute drive and I'd rather know than take a chance on winter weather and drive there. Penn State University is over 2 hours away, and they are from the same "anti- non- student" fraternity as the Bloom U dean of library. No mistake- no plural on that. sigh. Any suggestions for searches? Thank you. Linda Anderson
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:06:16 -0800 From: Phyllis J Kaelin <pjkaelin(at)earthlink.net> Subject: Re: search lost Hi, Linda Anderson -- A longtime lurker popping up with to answer a question I think I can answer. To get to the library catalog for Bucknell online, type (or click on, if your mail works that way) -- http://library.bucknell.edu (yes, no "www"). At that point you are in the catalog and can search as you like. Seems like a pretty straightforward system and they do seem to have years and years of Harper's Weekly in microfilm at least. (Search without the apostrophe, that's how I found it.) Didn' t look for Harper's Monthly. Regarding a work-around for Bloomsburg -- could you hire a student (for $10 maybe) to do a library search and print out or write out the results, including call letters and then have your local public reference librarian (no matter how small the library!) make a request through interlibrary loan? I don't know if Bloomsburg participates in ILL, but they may. Of course, the reference librarian _may_ be able to make the request without call letters, as well. Same idea is bound to work for Penn State Library. I know, Interlibrary Loans take time and can put limits on what you can do, but can be made to work. The reference librarian may have other ideas as well. Hope this helps. Regards, Phyllis Kaelin pkaelin(at)earthlink.net
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:08:34 -0600 From: Brian McMillan <brianbks(at)netins.net> Subject: Re: search lost Linda, Although they tend to run the price up on some of these, especially if they're in top condition, you might find "reading copies" either at e-bay, the online auction at ebay.com (which doesn't cost anything to join) or you can search a number of online databases at bookfinder.com. Afraid I don't have for sale at the moment. Good luck. Brian PS: I looked this AM on ebay & discovered that one or two bound copies dated 1891-2 went at around 4 AM Pacific time for about $15 (not including shipping). The early bird, etc.. brianbks(at)netins.net BRIAN MCMILLAN, BOOKS 1429 L AVENUE TRAER IA 50675 - ---------- > From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> > To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Subject: search lost > Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 4:54 PM > > I did a search for Harper's Weekly. and Harpers Monthly. I got Oprah > Winfrey! > > Help? > > I'm more interested in stories that were illustrated by Howard Pyle and > N.C. Wyeth, not Oprah Winfrey! <G> > > And for those of you who don't remember what Bloomsburg University in > Bloomsburg PA is like, don't tell me to go to my "local university". > Unless one is enrolled as a student there, one cannot get into their > catalog, take out books, get into the library to read the collection or > anything. If anyone can help me find collections of Harpers at Bucknell > University, they welcome anyone and I have a library card for there but it > is a 45 minute drive and I'd rather know than take a chance on winter > weather and drive there. Penn State University is over 2 hours away, and > they are from the same "anti- non- student" fraternity as the Bloom U dean > of library. No mistake- no plural on that. sigh. > > Any suggestions for searches? > > Thank you. > > > Linda Anderson
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:43:52 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Jan. 25 1846 The dreaded Corn Laws, which taxed imported oats, wheat and barley, are repealed by the British Parliament. 1904 Two-hundred coal miners are entombed in an explosion in Pennsylvania. 1915 Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco, make a record telephone transmission. 1918 Austria and Germany reject U.S. peace proposals. When the United States entered World War I, propagandist George Creel set out to stifle anti-war sentiment. 1919 The League of Nations plan is adopted by the Allies. Born on January 25 1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet who wrote *Auld Lang Syne* and *Comin* Thru the Rye.* 1882 Virginia Woolf, English author who wrote Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando.
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:24:50 -0600 From: MyShelf <myshelf(at)marlownet.net> Subject: Re: Gaslight Digest V1 #35 Stepping out of lurkdom for a moment.... What is consider gaslight era... or gaslight mysteries..Do you mean historical? Does this list pick a book to read and discuss or do you discuss what you are reading indivdually? Someone asked in the last digest about a list of historical or gaslight mysteries. Two anthologies spring to mind - CRIME THROUGH TIME 1 & 2 - chocked full of historical mysteries and wonderful authors! With anthologies I can experience each writer.... since I can't find enough time to read all the historical series I would like. Brenda Sue - slipping back into lurkdom....
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:41:22 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Gaslight reading-- With deference to Stephen, I answer: >What is consider gaslight era... or gaslight mysteries..Do you mean >historical? For the best information on this list go to the website: http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/arts/english/gaslight/ Gaslight era is considered from 1800-1919, the eras that the use of gas lighting was prevalent. >Does this list pick a book to read and discuss or do you discuss what you >are reading indivdually? We read a story a week, usually posted before hand (though things are a bit scattered after the holidays now). This week we are starting Sheridan Le Fanu's HAUNTED LIVES (pt. 1) on the website here: http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/arts/english/gaslight/SCHEDS.HTM#current Last week and still under discussion is Fitzhugh Ludlow's "The Music Essence" There are also side readings that aren't pegged for spoilers and other topics in the Gaslight Era can be brought up under "chat" topics. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #36 *****************************