Amazing photo. Thanks for the info too, Will!

Thanks Justin! Haven’t read Davis in ages— will look back at it. My student wanted something to cover the whole decade more or less, so McCartin no quite the ticket.

Oy. Yes that would make sense. thanks!

Oh yes, that hadn't occurred to me but I could see it. Thank you!

"But what can the dark womb of the future hide away? The man must be a rock in the ocean." (The End. Thanks for any thoughts!)

I have a bride, the youngest daughter of the local Oberconsistorialrat Creuzer, who has such a harmonious, more deeply permeating, tender and nevertheless strong, vegetatively powerful [“vegetativ kraeftig”] nature, that I will probably never experience such a fate." (continued....)

"And if not this, if the breast, the active germ of life and death, resists, so is terrible hysteria often the lot of these ethereal beings." (continued.....)

The letter: "I know many a case, where the tender and majestic development of the female body and spirit bears inside of the life a germ of death, which often, in marriage, steps back in the face of the new direction of organic activity, and often achieves actuality first.

I wasn’t thinking that but, hmmm, good point!

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Thanks Tim, you made my day. Your article is terrific and I loved working with you— hope we can do it again sometime!