[This frustratingly undated excerpt appears to mark a more formal approach for GW. There is no claret staining, nor any scrawled notes to his editor. It is also the first known written record of his foundling grandmother, Nunzia. Although she went by many surnames, which shall be examined in later papers, efforts to uncover her true …
[The undated papers that appear to open the official GW memoirs read in a considerably confused manner. Indeed, there is some considerable doubt over whether the following was intended for public consumption or for the attention of GW’s 19th century editor; a book proposal, if you like. Stained with claret and written in a somewhat free …
The recent discovery of George Wickham’s papers in circumstances as dramatic as any novel should rightly have been a cause célèbre. Perhaps mindful of the appropriation of the gentleman’s name and likeness by other authors over the years, however, the Wickham estate chose not to publicise this important discovery. It has been my honour and …
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