Light Housekeeping

September 12, 2010 at 11:17 am (research) (augusta smith, augusta wilder, coolhurst, drummond smith, elizabeth christie, emma smith, glyndebourne, kinwarton, lady elizabeth compton, margaret elizabeth christie, preston deanery, rev. richard seymour, rome, sir michael seymour, sulham, suttons, the proms)

Do take a moment to check out a few new *pages*. I’ve created one page about various “missing” parts of this research, as well as acknowledged those that have come to light in private hands (special thank you to people who have contacted me; and to Alan, who continues to send scans as he finds new letters).

Readers will find all the page links under CAN YOU HELP (see PAGES, to the right), but the most important is the one entitled Where are these items?

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NB: I worked on these pages while listening to the LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS, on Vermont Public Radio. Oh, to be in London again…

The Smiths & Goslings would have been EXACTLY the type to subscribe to such concerts year after year after year (lucky people, no?). One thought: the London Season in their day would NOT have been the hot summer months, but the winter months of January/February through spring (depending on when Easter fell); the plays, parties and operas continued for the Smiths & Goslings into the month of June.