M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's Magazin

[Tara Brady]

Oh my. How fabulous.

Great find, David.

On 08/09/2007, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Found it! I've transcribed it here:
> http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Greenwich_Hoy%21
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> > 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
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> >
> > 1811 Collection:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=xj8lAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=curiou+intitle:Gentleman%27s+intitle:Magazine#PPR10,M1
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> > Other volumes:
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> >
> http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:0LSUTDjZwMW9PlZDam&lr=&id=_UEdXMCpZ6wC&sa=N&start=430
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