Tuesday, February 27, 2024

It all affects us terribly

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‘Anthony E[den] and Edward Wood are off to Geneva - and the farce begins again - talk, talk, talk - and all the time the nations are arming ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

I am praying for your death

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’The newspapers are attacking me more furiously than ever, for my speech on the 14th, and I have a swarm of abusive letters. One good lady s...
Friday, February 23, 2024

A wonderful day of Life

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’A wonderful day of Life Very sunny & fine. Left Fenton with Willie & E. soon after 10. at 11 - Glorious King Olaf a magnificent tri...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

At last we are off

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‘At last we are off. The last of the cheering crowded boats have turned, the sirens of shore and sea are still, and in the calm hazy gatheri...
Friday, February 9, 2024

Am I going crazy?

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‘I guess I really am a queer fish. When I write poems, as I’ve done at a brisk rate for the past 4 hours, they come to me out of locked room...

I would like to be a man

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Amy Lowell, a colourful and influential personality in American poetry during the first quarter of the 20th century, was born 150 years ago ...
Monday, February 5, 2024

All sorts of colours

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Countess Cowper, Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline Princess of Wales, the highest ranking lady in Britain at the time, died three centuries...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

Puffins, pipits and plovers

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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the American ornithologist and painter of birds, Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Although there are...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Fat alligators in Florida

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Andrew Ellicott, one of the most important early surveyors in the United States, was born 270 years ago today. He helped survey borders with...