Lady, this here come for you this morning. I hope I did right to send it on, seeing as Granny P. said I ought not to bother you with foreign nonsense. All quiet here. Respectfully, Lewis Lady Claire Trevelyan Toll Cottage Vauxhall Gardens London Dear Lady Claire, It is with the greatest pleasure that I…
This blog is a bit like a narrow-gauge train … it has its own track and rarely branches out where the bigger trains go. I haven’t had guest bloggers (would you like that?) or done book reviews (should I?) or that kind of thing, but once in awhile something comes along that jazzes me to…
URGENT DELIVERED BY HAND Dear Mr. Arundel, While I very much appreciate your efforts and counsel on my behalf, I will not be bullied. How much land can a glassworks require? But I see that it is not so much the land upon which Toll Cottage stands that is the attraction, but the landing field…
Lady Claire Trevelyan Toll Cottage Vauxhall Gardens London Dear Lady Claire, Upon receipt of your tube yesterday, I paid an afternoon call on the proprietors of the Morton Glass Works, your neighbors upriver, and was ushered into the office of Mr. Ainsley Morton III, the current director of the company. I conveyed your wishes that the…
This week I’m flying out to Pennsylvania for a conference on Amish technology, with a focus on medical practices. It’s hosted by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, which is the home of a cluster of sociologists who specialize in the Amish culture. Dr. Donald Kraybill and Dr. Steven Nolt,…