MDMD(11): The Jenkin's Ear Museum

[Dave Monroe]

And note as well, the "obscure English clergyman"
William Cole, the Revd. Wicks Cherrycoke, W.C. ... 

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> From Odell Shepard and Willard Shepard, Jenkins'
> Ear: A Narrative Attributed to Horace Walpole, Esq.
> (New York: Macmillan, 1951), "To Whom it May
> Concern," pp. v-xiv ...
> 
> "I, William Cole, an obscure English clergyman, am
> writing these words in mid-November of the year of
> Our Lord 1782 and the sixty-eighth year of my age.
> They are meant to go with and to vouch for a strange
> narrative, herein called 'Jenkins' Ear,' a true copy
> of which I am now handing on to those readers as yet
> unborn for whom it was mainly intended.  I believe
> it to be the work of the Honorable Horace Walpole,
> youngest son of England's first Prime Minister ...."
> (v)

And note as well ...

"Yet I think it is mainly upon his correspondence that
Mr. Walpole depends for the survival of his name--and
this with good reason, because it is in his letters
that the best of the man shines forth ...." (xiv)

And, not quite having time these days to sandwich a
474 page novel into the reading of a 773 page one, I
at least skipped ahead to the ending ...

   "'Now, children,' said I, 'don't quarrel.  You are
both right.  We have lost a king and won an Ear.'"
(474)

Cf. not only ...

   "'"Ear"?'
   "'Oh?  What would you call her?  "Nose"?'" (M&D,
Ch. 17, p. 178)

But also ...

   "Mary would return to England with the younger
Children,-- William and Dr. Isaac, Rebekah's Sons,
would stay, and be American...."  (M&D, Ch.78, pp.
773f.)

The capitalized "Ear," the "quarreling" children
ending ...

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