An Appeal: Free M&D Resource Disappearing

[David Payne]

> Thanks! Here's a good place to begin the hunt ...> > Foreman, David. "Historical Documents Relating to> Mason & Dixon." Pynchon and Mason & Dixon.> Ed. Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin.> Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000. 143-66
 
That's a great paper! I've been working closely with it for an end-of-term paper that I am wrapping up. 
 
And thank you, Dave Monroe, for posting (and re-posting) so many links & bibliographic details to relevant articles from the Phil. Trans. Two other great sources for relevant Phil. Trans. articles are:
 
1. Cope, T. & Robinson, H.W. (1951). Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon and the Royal Society. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 9 (1), 55-78.  
 
(See for free before Dec. 1: http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/045636u7kh50hh01/fulltext.pdf ; or check JSTOR: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0035-9149%28195110%299%3A1%3C55%3ACMJDAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8)
 
2. the bibliography in Howse, D. (1989). Nevil Maskelyne, the seaman's astronomer. Cambridge University Press.
 
I'll have to compare these sources to the articles you referenced to see if I can find any more that are relevant to M&D.
 
One final thought is that I am not aware of anyone ever looking through Phil. Trans. for articles by Bradley that are relevant to M&D. Pynchon must have looked at some articles in Phil. Trans. while working on M&D (the reports in 1768 are a key source of info on Mason and Dixon's work in America) -- did Bradley write anything here that influenced him? Probably a long shot, but I would not be surprised if Pynchon browsed some of this. A longer shot: there are a few other people who are mentioned in M&D and wrote for Phil. Trans., like Bevis, Short, & Betts. Others? John Bird? These people are such bit players in M&D (I think Bevis & Betts are only mentioned once in passing), so I doubt if there are any insights to M&D to be gleaned from their writings, but who knows?
 
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