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At Dover Cliffs


By Blue Revolution, 2010-02-17
News from the Republic of Letters Volume 1, Letter 2

Fellows of the Royal Society at Crane Court,
Fleet Street, London.

My Dearest Fellows:

My journey to Dover was without incident. Ive spent the last few days exploring the coast and pathways above and below these remarkable White Cliffs. Please find samples of the cliff chippings along with descriptive notes about time and location of each sample.


This evening as I returned from my sample taking, I made the acquaintance of a learned gentleman, Mr. Bowles. He shared with me a sonnet hed just completed that evening and I pass along to My Dear Fellows to give you a sense of this area.

At Dover Cliffs
On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood
Uplift their shadowing heads, and, at their feet,
Scarce hear the surge that has for ages beat,
Sure many a lonely wanderer has stood;
And whilst the lifted murmur met his ear,
And o'er the distant billows the still eve
Sailed slow, has thought of all his heart must leave
Tomorrow; of the friends he loved most dear;
Of social scenes, from which he wept to part;
But if, like me, he knew how fruitless all
The thoughts that would full fain the past recall,
Soon would he quell the risings of his heart,
And brave the wild winds and unhearing tide,
The world his country, and his God his guide.
~ William Lisle Bowles
(Sonnet: At Dover Cliffs, July 20th 1787)

On the morrow I shall take leave of England and will travel in a much more conventional mode than Monsieur Blanchard who hopes to cross the Channel by balloon! All of Dover is abuzz with M. Blanchards preparations and he plans to depart by weeks end. Consequently, I have altered my travel arrangements to stay in coastal France in order to view the landing of his amazing journey.

With much anticipation I bid adieu,
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A Journey Begins


By Blue Revolution, 2010-02-15

News from the Republic of Letters Volume 1, Letter 1

Fellows of the Royal Society at Crane Court,
Fleet Street, London.

My Dearest Fellows:

Please forgive my inability to travel to London to report directly to The Fellows on my current plans to visit the new Optiks Laboratory in the Duche de Coeur. As you can see from this small self-potrait I have included, my packing is almost complete.

At your direction, I have included copies of numerous books from my publishing house and hope to see a brisk business to recoup some of the expenses of my continental travel. One of the newer portable printing presses has also been crated and all of these items shall make their own way to the Duche, separate from me.

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I continue to be much frustrated by my inability to discern the director of this new experimental laboratory. All of my letters of inquiry continue to be returned by a Madame Alchemi. I can only assume that it is her husband who is dictating these responses and she is inadvertently signing them with her own name instead of his.
This is but one discovery I hope to make on this journey.

The time draws near for me to be in Dover to sail across the Channel to Calais.

With much haste, I bid Adieu

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