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d on to the mylar bags fortunately no damage had been done to the books and it was simply a matter of removing the moth trap and then replacing the sticky bags with new ones the dates are significant just before the pandemic when everything was locked down and importantly a lot of voluntary organisations saw a significant turn over with people simply not coming back after the lockdowns were over and other people taking their place this of course meant that any handover of duties was patchy at best and some things simply got missed the solution is simple a search and destroy mission for any other outdated moth traps as well as checking for damage and putting in place a task calendar to ensure that the traps are checked regularly in the future and why am i airing our dirty linen in public like this well we re not the only volunteer run organisation in the world and i m sure other organisations must have had a breakdown in procedure like we did and i d like to emphasise that no one did the wrong thing it s just that in a period of churn things get lost in this case we got away with it another time we might not be so lucky posted by dgm at 14 31 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 26 june 2026 it s been a wilkie collins sort of a day as usual i had my morning cataloguing up at the athenaeum and this morning it was wilkie collins one of my favourite nineteenth century authors strangely unless it s been misclassified and i m yet to find it we don t appear to have a copy of the woman in white which is perhaps his best known novel today this isn t terribly unusual the woman in white was incredibly popular when it first appeared and it s possible that the book simply wore out and was not replaced as i ve said before the accession registers and other paperwork relating to the early days of the athenaeum s library have disappeared the woman in white made wilkie collin s reputation even inspiring a cartoon by his friend john leech depicting a housholder engrossed in his novel being ordered to come to bed by his wife what we do have is a second edition of the moonstone unfortunately volume three is missing which was clearly sourced second hand from mullen s as the books have remnant mullen s circulating library labels a copy of poor miss finch that dates from 1872 that was probably bought new by the athenaeum copies of his early novels antonina and basil that have been professionally rebound suggesting that they were reasonably popular and even a yellowback edition of miss or mrs from the end of the nineteenth century suggesting wilkie collins remained popular throughout his lifetime and beyond other than that it was the usual mix of late victorian and edwardian adventure novels interwar mysteries and 1950s romance novels posted by dgm at 14 52 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 19 june 2026 bottles documented and a few books well after last week s unplanned cancellation it was back to cataloguing the bottles as promised as well as a few more books in the historic book collection the job itself was fairly straightforward and as i d carefully packed up a box with my little linux documentation laptop some weights to hold the background down right angled rulers etc it seemed to be really quick actually it took me about an hour due to being out of practice in assembling a documentation package but i got there i m happy that the procedure derived from my work with both lake view and dow s is robust my only real worry is the use of excel format for the spreadsheet its use is only part of my procedure because originally the national trust had a workflow where they converted the excel spreadsheets automagically to csv for ingest to their archive management system it could be argued that instead of xlsx i should have used ods or indeed generated a csv format file to ensure the long term accessibility of the data in this case i don t think it matters over much but just for fun i added an ods and csv subdirectory with the supplementary spreadsheets and replaced the manifest txt file with an updated version to reflect this change other than that it was simply a case of yet more documentation of the historic book collection no spectacular finds just mid century romance and mystery novels which perhaps reflects a post war desire for a touch of colour and escapism but i did find one book that had previously belonged to a circulating library in melbourne operated by myer s posted by dgm at 15 37 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 13 june 2026 not a lot of progress well the bottles i planned to document yesterday are still undocumented and i didn t catalogue any of the historic book collection either i d had to cancel my morning working up at the athenaeum due to unforeseen circumstances as i alluded to elsewhere j was due to have a minor medical procedure as day surgery earlier this week and it turned into one of these things where the wheels come off because she ended up having to stay overnight and wasn t discharged when we thought she would be our whole carefully planned schedule fell apart we were late home missed picking the cat up from the cat motel etc etc etc well these things happen and when they do you just have to roll with it and sometimes things have to cancelled or reorganised and one of these things was my morning at the athenaeum however i did do a fair part of the preparation before hand checking camera batteries were charged firing up the documentation computer to do any necessary updates and making up a base recording spreadsheet it s a fairly specific job so i don t need all of my documentation kit just a couple of scales a micrometer and a set of glass weights to hold the backdrop down which will all fit in a simple plastic carry box and of course my trusty digital slr to take high resolution images and certainly easier than taking the whole documentation kit which fills a couple plastic boxes these days once the bottles are documented i ll make up a little documentation package one copy of which i ll save to onedrive and the other i ll write to a usb stick to be squirreled away and archived posted by dgm at 12 42 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 5 june 2026 bottles again up at the athenaeum one of my colleagues brought in three glass bottles found while digging in her garden and asked me to take a look at them the bottles all look to be from the first half of the twentieth century and are fairly generic examples of medicine bottles this first one is a fairly generic clear glass bottle of the sort used to package aspirin and similar over the counter medicines the second one is a little more interesting made from brown glass which has become slightly crazed over the years it has faulding embossed on one of the narrower faces of the bottle faulding is a long established australian manufacturer of over the counter remedies the bottle is not ribbed or dimpled suggesting it orginally contained a non prescription medicine the final bottle is potentially more interesting consisting of a narrow clear glass cylinder close examination showed that it still had a label in white paint on the bottle albeit faded and worn playing about with the image using microsoft photo editor brought up the words nyal cold sore like faulding nyal is a long established australian brand of off the shelf pharmaceutical products experience documenting nyal products at dow s pharmacy in chiltern suggests that the form of the logo used with its distinctive lower case y means that the bottle dates to the late 1950s or early 1960s the plan is to document them fully next week using the folksonomy i developed for the dow s documentation project the items are fairly generic and we are not a collecting institution so once documented we will offer them to a local museum unlike many bottles these ones most definitely have a provenance posted by dgm at 15 52 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 2 june 2026 finding louisa following on from finding that one of louisa crow s stories was republished in the new york times i thought i d do a very simple search of trove papers past nz and welsh newspapers online to see if her stories were also being republished elsewhere as i said it s strange how someone who while a popular hack novelist of her time seems to have completely dropped out of the canon of nineteenth century novelists there s nothing particularly remarkable in her writing serial stories for magazines quite a few of her peers did the same thing only to have their serials republished as a three decker dickens did the same as did wilkie collins and mary elizabeth braddon and newspapers especially the weekly papers and papers in rural areas liked to have a serialised novel if only to attract repeat purchases of the paper the social historian david kerr cameron has recorded the importance of the friday or saturday paper in rural scotland in the nineteenth century where often the weekly newspaper was the only reading matter in a croft other than a bible the literary historian katherine bode has investigated a similar phenomenon in rural australia and has uncovered lost novels which only appear to have been published as newspaper serials so to the search trove and paperspast nz differentiate between newspapers and magazines in both cases i searched for the occurrences of the string louisa crow this reliably brought up mentions of her searching for mrs l crow did not improve the results suggesting that she was principally known as louisa crow a search of welsh newspapers online shows frequent mentions in book reviews and in advertising for new books and issues of the quiver suggesting some popularity she does not appear to be credited for any serialised novels i m not sure why it could be that she simply wasn t particularly popular in english speaking wales as a sanity check i later reran the search on the slv s copy of gale newvault and both her stories and poems seem to have been syndicated to a wide range of english scottish and irish newspapers which suggests that perhaps the results from welsh newspapers online are an anomaly on the other hand a search of trove shows that her stories were reprinted in various country newspapers of the time in australia and she was thought worthy of mention in various booksellers adverts and strangely one of her stories was reprinted in the presbyterian calendar of 1893 a church annual magazine as in wales she seems to have been less popular in new zealand with very few hits in papers past as in the case of wales i can only wave my hands i don t know enough about nineteenth century newspaper publishing in new zealand to speculate meaningfully so where does this leave us well louisa crow was well enough known to be mentioned in the times of london of 01 january 1896 in their list of significant personages who had died in the previous year as well as earning a couple of obituaries in literary periodicals of the time however as i ve said she seems to have almost completely dropped out of the literary canon since her death which i guess simply shows just how fleeting fame can be posted by dgm at 11 10 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 30 may 2026 mrs crow continues to confuse yesterday up at the athenaeum i had some fun tracing louisa crow a nineteenth century female novelist we hold a copy of one of her novels yet the novel is not listed in either the british library or national library of scotland catalogues normally i use google to search but given the paucity of information about mrs crow i thought to rerun the search using both bing and yandex to see if they turned up anything else as is sometimes the case yandex produced some search results that surprised me firstly a link to the new york times of august 12 1866 which features a short story hazeley mill by louisa crow it also features a poem by algernon charles swinburne exalted company indeed for someone usually considered a victorian hack novelist secondly a link to an 1866 illustration held by aberystwyth university for a story hazeley mill in once a week magazine a magazine louisa crow published in but was it really louisa crow well the hathi trust archive of once a week from 1866 includes louisa crow s story so i am guessing that in the way of nineteenth century newspapers the times republished the story and indeed it does credit it as coming from once a week the dates fit meaning i think we can be confident that the story is by our louisa crow even if it does not appear in the usual lists of her short stories on victorian literature and victorian studies sites it s interesting how someone who obviously had some sort of reputation can almost totally disappear from 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