Wednesday, July 2, 2008

At the Bodleian

After delivering a paper on this fellow, and before delivering a paper on this fellow, I have been doing a bit of research at the Bodleian on the latter. I have been working mostly here:

but have also been spending time here:

After reading through numerous papers and books by my subject, I took a break to go read his tombstone:

CHARLES
WALTER STANSBY
WILLIAMS
Poet
20 Sep. 1886
15 May 1945
UNDER THE MERCY

A brief, but revealing, record.