Thread by @RoseLerner

As I listen back to my conversation with the @WckdWallflowers (available anywhere you listen to podcasts) I'm going to tweet along with as many footnotes as I can! But first the real star of the show, my Chernow book signed by members of the original Broadway cast of "Hamilton"!

@WckdWallflowers 12:41 "I was just reading an article...where there are parts inked out": blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/01/te…

@WckdWallflowers 14:06, censored letter from Hamilton to Laurens ("mind you do justice to the length of my nose"): founders.archives.gov/documents/Hami…

@WckdWallflowers 15:30, Hamilton to Laurens with "transgress" underlined: founders.archives.gov/documents/Hami…

@WckdWallflowers 18:08, article from Out dot com about Charlotte Bronte: out.com/art-books/2015…

@WckdWallflowers Oops I mispronounced "secreted" oh well judge not lest ye be judged

@WckdWallflowers 20:00 I don't have full footnotes for the Charlotte Brontë discussion but here is the censored quote I mention

source: "Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century" by Graham Robb

Google Books: books.google.com/books?id=Ra4bT…
AZ: amzn.to/2YVjsAJ

@WckdWallflowers 23:00 letter from Hamilton to Laurens, "like a jealous lover": founders.archives.gov/documents/Hami…

@WckdWallflowers 23:28 "and also I would like to find you a girlfriend" was a reference to this quote, also from Graham Robb's STRANGERS (books.google.com/books?id=Ra4bT…)

@WckdWallflowers 26:50, the burning of Byron's memoirs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%27s…

@WckdWallflowers 27:41, letter from Hamilton to Eliza with flirty references to punishment founders.archives.gov/documents/Hami…

@WckdWallflowers Not sure of the timestamp, sorry, but more on Madison doctoring his own papers:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mad…

Madison's doctored letter to Jefferson about Lafayette (see footnotes for details): founders.archives.gov/documents/Madi…

35:20, letter from Angelica to Eliza "if you will be so obliging as to permit my Brother to give me his society" (link goes to Google Books, letter is printed in Allen McLane Hamilton's "The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton"):
books.google.com/books?id=HNRR9…

(Note: "brother" and "sister" were commonly used in place of "brother-in-law" and "sister-in-law")

35:20, letter from A. Ham to Angelica, Eliza "consents to everything": founders.archives.gov/documents/Hami…

37:40 the Hays Code. There is SO MUCH on this out there and it's all fascinating but a couple links to get you started:

WP: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Pi…
Digitized selection of pre-filming script responses from the Production Office: digitalcollections.oscars.org/cdm/landingpag…

43:24, for a sample of Hays Code censorship of depictions of sex work, here's the paperwork for Gunfight at the OK Corral: digitalcollections.oscars.org/cdm/ref/collec…

Here is a screencap from p. 6 of that collection describing real brothels (as opposed to censored fictional depictions of them):

Credit for this section goes to my ex, Sonia, btw, who's done a lot of research on the Hays Code and shared it with me

43:20 Aaron Burr has a passion for certain branches of natural history: books.google.com/books?id=qH0TA…

(My free short story "Do you know anything about canals?", in which Ash and Rafe Cohen run a con on Aaron Burr, follows directly from this incident: roselerner.com/bookshelf/live…)

Kate Beaton's amazing comic about "Kiss me, Hardy" which is on my wall. Make sure you read Kate's comments at the bottom because I think about them ALL THE TIME:

harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=1…

51:00-ish "Courtesans and Fishcakes" by James N. Davidson: amzn.to/2wt6HBo

(thank you to @O_Waite for loaning me this book!!)

@O_Waite 53:08 letter from A. Ham to Eliza quoting Pope on not believing in marriage: founders.archives.gov/documents/Hami…

@O_Waite You can read the full Pope poem here, or search "How oft, when press'd to marriage" for just the relevant part: poetryfoundation.org/poems/44892/el…

55:30, "Twenty Thousand Leagues, Futhermuckers" by @MattYoungmark
amzn.to/2W1zzec

(I bought the paperback because Matt is my formatter and the way he formats his paperbacks is frankly absurdly beautiful, plus THAT COVER OMG, but the ebook is free in KU!)

58:00 Cate Blanchett--the thing she did that upset me is working with a certain abuser/Jewish comedian whose name I refuse to speak any more. Here is a link to her painfully inadequate response to criticism: theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/…

FTR: yes, Cate Blanchett is hot but I would WAY rather sleep with Tessa Thompson!! I just wouldn't want to burn down the patriarchy w/CB bc I don't trust her

That's it and that's all! Thanks for listening and please come again :)

By total coincidence today's Spoiler Wednesday (about my research for Rafe Cohen's book) is also about erasure in the historical/literary record. Join my Patreon to read: patreon.com/posts/27202805

If you don't want to become a patron but you do need a Wednesday pick-me-up, here is the closing GIF from the post:

[gif: Roman Reigns being beautiful and saying "I love you"]

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