M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's Magazine

[David Payne]

Found it! I've transcribed it here: http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Greenwich_Hoy%21
 
 



> From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net> To: pynchon-l at waste.org> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:41:37 +0000> Subject: Re: M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's Magazine> > ohmy these are so great. If there were a coach> with not just more space, but more time on the inside > I would buy a ticket to Dorking-on-the-Thames or> someplace, and read the whole thing en route.> > -----Original Message-----> From: David Payne [mailto:dpayne1912 at hotmail.com]> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 08:48 PM> To: 'Pynchon-l'> Subject: RE: M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's Magazine> > Well, I managed to find the 1765 Gentleman's Magazine on Google Books (linked below), but as best as I can tell, Google hasn't scanned the 1764 volume (XXXIV). (If anyone here has a copy, please lemme know.)> > Google did, however, scan "A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine" (1811) which contains a letter by Dr. Bevis (!) from the 1764 volume (!!) that was written in response to some glub query of astro-historical yore (not unlike my own questions). Bevis' letter opens with this funny disclaimer: "I am so little versed in matters of antiquity, that I do not know to whom you could have applied less qualified to give you satisfaction than myself."> > This collection also contains such wonderfully entitled articles as: "An Hour-glass found in a Coffin"; "On the Custom of Swearing in Discourse"'; and "A Saint whose Emblems are naked Boys in a Tub."> > Here are links for the curious.> > > 1765: http://books.google.com/books?id=Y0sDAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:0LSUTDjZwMW9PlZDam#PRA1-PA544,M1> > > > 1811 Collection: http://books.google.com/books?id=xj8lAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=curiou+intitle:Gentleman%27s+intitle:Magazine#PPR10,M1> > > > Other volumes:> > http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:0LSUTDjZwMW9PlZDam&lr=&id=_UEdXMCpZ6wC&sa=N&start=430> > > > > > 
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