August 2011
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Heywood Manuscript
The Heywood Manuscript Letters have been uploaded to the website.
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Heywood Manuscript
I’ve completed the indexing and when I get links updated on existing pages, should be uploading everything later today. I’ll post when I’ve done it.
Of course I’ve put off updating the databases for who people are and where places are, but I’m behind on that already - it’s on my to do list.
Heywood Manuscript
I have worked my way through letter No. 76. No. 77 is from Peter Heywood to family friend Dr. Patrick Scott, written on September 20, 1792. The court-martial ended on the 18th, and Peter is a bit put out. An excerpt:
“& all my Hope of worldly joy is fled far from me! On Tuesday Morning the 18th Inst. the dreadful sentence of Death was pronounced upon me! — to which (being the just...
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Heywood Manuscript
I’ve done the housekeeping & indexed the first 23 files. It has not gone easily. The housekeeping turned out to be a breeze. Then I was in the middle of indexing the 8th file when I noticed that I wasn’t getting the output that I needed. Fortunately, when I index, I don’t make entries to the various Find Stuff databases directly, but accumulate sql statements for each one in...
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Heywood Manuscript
Well, it did take a while, a month, but the transcribing is done; there are 125 content files, plus the index page.
Unlike the Providence material, these pages have to be indexed and have the unfamiliar word popups added.
There’s some housekeeping that has to be done before I can do that. After that’s done I have to add the pages to the ‘What’s Here” page and the...
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Heywood Manuscript
90 Letters completed, the last dated October 7, 1792, from Peter Heywood to his sister Nessy. The court-martial has come and gone, but the pardons have not been handed down and Peter and the other mutineers are still imprisoned aboard the Hector.
Nessy and Peter’s elder brother James have come down to London from the Isle of Man in anticipation of seeing him, but Peter has told Nessy in no...
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Heywood Manuscript
51 Letters completed. Well, I wasn’t going to include the poems, but I’ve decided that when they are referenced in a letter, I should include them with that letter. The compiler of the manuscript, Mary Heywood, has helpfully included a page number when a poem is mentioned. The page numbers are not easy to read as they are small and in the top corner of the page, which gets the most...