tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post7052744926903996156..comments2024-03-20T23:43:28.613+00:00Comments on Caroline's Miscellany: John Leighton's London honeycombCarolineLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00197813252586559665noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-61763761559297241492009-10-21T17:20:41.908+01:002009-10-21T17:20:41.908+01:00Yes, absolutely. Marked the whole thing for me.Yes, absolutely. Marked the whole thing for me.Minniehttp://minniebeaniste.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-20843155426145828852009-10-21T12:51:06.070+01:002009-10-21T12:51:06.070+01:00Yes, that was what made the passage leap out at me...Yes, that was what made the passage leap out at me - it seems consistent with his distrust of cab drivers, somehow.CarolineLDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00197813252586559665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-44972174184095690422009-10-21T09:53:24.869+01:002009-10-21T09:53:24.869+01:00Fascinating post, Caroline, and densely-packed wit...Fascinating post, Caroline, and densely-packed with information as ever - all very readable, I hasten to add! New territory for me, so interested in following the paths revealed. A bit put off JL by the exerpt from his history of the Paris Commune, in which his personal financial loss outweighs that of the deaths of servants ... an ironic counterpoint to what les communards were on about in the first place!Minniehttp://minniebeaniste.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-8763883140446234352009-10-20T00:33:04.430+01:002009-10-20T00:33:04.430+01:00I'm a fan too - and you can browse those editi...I'm a fan too - and you can browse those editions <a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. The later nineteenth-century editions read quite differently but appear to have aimed for the same spirit: you can read a preface from the 1860s <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=udgRAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow">here</a>.CarolineLDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00197813252586559665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-64562817308734639302009-10-20T00:24:28.175+01:002009-10-20T00:24:28.175+01:00I know this is slightly off topic but I have loved...I know this is slightly off topic but I have loved The Gentleman's Magazine, ever since I came across it in the life story of Samuel Johnson. <br /><br />I wonder if this literary gold mine of the 1730 and 40s was largely the same magazine by the time Leighton bought it and perhaps wrote for it.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-50301800297279367282009-10-20T00:21:24.159+01:002009-10-20T00:21:24.159+01:00Sadly, I don't - it's on my reading list n...Sadly, I don't - it's on my reading list next time I'm in the British Library but I doubt I'll be able to reproduce it.CarolineLDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00197813252586559665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-1860444394720484242009-10-19T22:35:44.758+01:002009-10-19T22:35:44.758+01:00Do you have a copy of Tubular Transit for London t...Do you have a copy of Tubular Transit for London that you could turn into a PDF?James Dowdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11058389162481491681noreply@blogger.com