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Eggs up 20% at Trader Joe's over 10 days ago.
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Gas today $2.67/gal.
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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Possibly the Viscountess Dungarvan mentioned? The Hoare connection would make sense: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna....
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Oh—and the relevant notes in the Mack archive are in box 62.
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Mack doesn’t know who she is, but her contact to Pope is William Cheselden and Martha Blount didn’t like her. She seems to have been completely infatuated with Pope and impossible to shake off.
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Aha! Maynard Mack writes about this manuscript at length in his Pope biography: pp. 796-801. It’s been on my ‘find this’ list for ages.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?
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“It also extensively details her close, personal relationship with Alexander Pope and many other notable individuals in literature and politics at that time. She repeatedly refers to locations such as Wandsworth, Clapham, Stourhead, Paternoster Row, Ham Common, Camberwell, Twickenham, etc.”
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“The manuscript spans hundreds of pages and includes fascinating poems/letters addressed to both real and pseudonymous correspondents (Quintilian, Henry Hoare II, Verax, etc.).“ +