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Posted on December 29, 2021
I thought it would be interesting to follow the Leslie Patterson family and the Andrew Backus family through the census records to watch a developing farm from the earliest records through to the 1871 census. Information […]
Posted on December 8, 2021
The information in this podcast is compiled from old documents, letters, and telegrams kept and labelled by Ruth Gilbert, foster sister of George Henry Backus. George Henry Backus, also known as […]
Posted on October 12, 2021
Ariana Malthaner One of the most challenging aspects of transcription is a hand that is mostly readable, but with a few key words indistinguishable. There is hardly anything more frustrating […]
Posted on October 5, 2021
Ariana Malthaner The final of Isabella’s inclusions from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a haunting passage about the ocean, and Biblical creation. The selections from Canto IV that Isabella opted to […]
Posted on September 28, 2021
Ariana Malthaner This week’s transcription is from the autograph book of Jennie Dyke who, at this point, had become Jennie Fawkes. This is one of the most faded of the […]
Posted on September 21, 2021
Ariana Malthaner Isabella’s next two stanzas from Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage concern a Gothic Gladiator and his battle at the coliseum. The only particular thing of note is that in […]
Posted on September 14, 2021
Ariana Malthaner This week’s original poem comes from the autograph book of Eliza McDonald and appears to be rather romantic in nature. The initials of the author, much like significant […]
Posted on September 7, 2021
Ariana Malthaner Continuing with Isabella’s interest in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, we have another two stanzas from Canto IV, these two discussing the destruction of Rome and its notable buildings: the […]
Posted on August 31, 2021
Ariana Malthaner The original poem this week was written for Jennie (sometimes, as here, Jeannie) Dyke. Unlike the other autograph books which are primarily filled with momentos and sentimental messages, […]
