M&D Source Thomas D. Cope

[Becky Lindroos]

> Is that Cope on the bottom of page 7?

Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America
 By Edwin Danson

Far more about Cope starting on page 444. 

Thomas Darlington Cope was an imminent physicist and historian of Mason & Dixon journals. 
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/cope_td_guide.pdf

Cope tends to focus on the scientific importance of the Mason-Dixon survey as an accomplishment of Enlightenment ingenuity applied to a geographically and politically difficult problem. Cope’s research is thought to serve as a *** significant source for the historical basis of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Mason & Dixon.[1]*** 

Was TRP using the name of Cope to point toward the official history?  ???

Bek

> On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:11 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is that Cope on the bottom of page 7? Tricky Mr. Pynchon. Worth
> following this little mention of Cope with the others who departed,
> one way of another with dearly departed Mason. He's duly noted in the
> M&D Wiki.
> 
> A tremendous job was done in the previous reads on Cope & Company. In any event,
> 
> 
> http://www.mdlpp.org/?page=library
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> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:07 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Cope
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