Rebecca F's List: work research

• VERSCHOYLE, REV. JOHN.— A
  contributor to Kottabos, etc.
  Entered T.C.D. in 1872, and some
  days after got the Vice-Chancellor's
  prize for English verse. In 1874 he
  obtained it for Latin verse, and in
  1875 and 1878 again for English
  verse. Proceeded to Cambridge and
  graduated В A., 1880, M.A., 1883.

• Verschoyle, John Stuart. Nov. 1854. Son of J. Verschoyle,
  Tassaggart, Saggart, Co. Dublin. Left Oct. 1871.
  English Verse Medal, Trin. Coll., Dublin. Pembroke
  Coll., Camb. B.A., 1880. In H. O. Rector of Huish
  Champflower, Wiveliscombe, Somerset.

• • "The world of reading reconstructed from women's letters, commonplace books, diaries, autograph albums, and journals challenges the still familiar idea of female reading as passive consumption of textually determined meanings. it shows..."

• • engagement with books a collective practice

• • "The same identity that anchored readers in the present also connected them w/ their counterparts in the past. books served as legacies, as inheritances, that linked generations of reading women to each other. ... The preservation, by female kin, of the commonplace book that is the only extant document of [the lady who produced it] testifies to identification with a mother and grandmother who had been devoted to reading. [Her] legacy, the inheritance left to later generations, was both the object itself and the devotion to reading that was encoded in it."

• • Hofstader -- difference between intelligence and intellect is that "the latter 'has a certain spontaneous character and inner determination' that sets it apart" + "a peculiar poise of its own... established by a balance btwn 2 basic qualities in the intellectual's attitude toward ideas": playfulness & piety.
    
    "The carefully chosen passages that fill the pages of commonplace books & autograph albums illustrate... piety" - as opposed to diaries that may be more playful. entries reflect the highly purposeful engagment w/ books.

• Together, we accept as a key principle that access is key to the survival of archives, and digitization the best enabler of access.
• In order to make collections accessible to our present and emerging users, we must motivate digitization efforts that primarily serve access. Beyond the mere expansion of access, digitization confers benefits on collections, notably visibility, that has the salutary effect of driving preservation.
• Our deficit is not the performance of an exhaustive cataloguing, but rather the elicitation of a broader palette of our possibilities. Vital opportunity may drive more detailed describing, but this is not our primary aim. Rather, we seek a determination of basic condition to provide us with an appreciation of need.

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• 1668— James Aird, A.M. ; attained his degree at the University of
  Edinburgh, 30th July 1646. He was presented to Torryburn
  in 1608 by Alexander, Earl of Kincardine. In 1070 he was
  one of six selected for prcach;ng to the Presbyterians in the
  west and were hence termed the "Bishop's evangelists."
  Archbishop Leighton selected Mr Aird for the work "to
  bestow his pains especially in the kirk of Carluke for bringing
  the people to frequent the public ordinances, icmoving the r
  prejudices, and co 'ling their passions." He was deprived by
  the Privy Council, 18th October 1689, for not reading the
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  proclamation of the estates, and not praying for their Majesties
  William and Mary, but for the late king "our natural prince
  that God would comfort him in the day of his distress, and
  praying that God would send back that tyrant (King William)
  who had come to invade these lands with a hook in his jaws."
  He died in June 1701, aged about 75 years and in the 33rd
  of l.is ministry. Mr Aird imitated Leighton so much in his
  manner that he was called "Leighton's Ape." He had a
  great love for images and ornaments, and so much was his
  house decorated by images that he always lay under a suspicion
  of Popery.

• Well for a careful prudent bawd say I Mc14*34 (f. 36r-v; pp. 72-3)
    <The prologue to the music's speech spoken to the ladies at the act in Oxford Theatre July the 12 1679 by Mr Alestree>

   

  It is expected that this epilogue now Mc14*35 (f. 37r; p. 74)
    <The epilogue>

• Bless me what sight is this invades mine eyes Od29*21 (f. 90v (rev))
   Your crimes the offsprings which she shall produce
   <The Prologue to The Music Speech [marg: Julij ye 11 16[6]9'] [TC title: Laurence musicke speech]>

    

  'Tis briskly begun ladies but how poorly we come off Od29*22 (ff. 89v-78v [rev; versos only])
   since it is the fashion to palliate a play with a weak rhyme, I pray take this Epilogue
   <[no separate title] [prose text]>

    

  As some raw lad from country school's brought down Od29*23 (f. 77v [rev])
   And freely on us all bestow their claps
   <The Epilogue to The Music Speech. [end: Made by Mr. Laurence of Univ[ersity] coll[ege]] [not listed separately in TC]>

• MERTON, Wilfred -- BELL, H. IDRIS and C.H. ROBERTS. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the Collection of Wilfred Merton, F.S.A. London: Emery Walker, 1948-1959.