As you all know, my medical issues were preventing progress for a lot of the past month, but I have finally been working on things again and I've done some more reading about Thomas Handasyd Perkins. I even got some time in the rare book reading room to check out some of the letters he and his brother wrote to their business partners.
They were as slimy and horrible as I had suspected they might be. Maybe worse.
I've started writing a new history of Mr. Perkins that docents will read as they decide how to structure their talks. Hannah and I have agreed that the most important quote for me to include would be one I found from a later biographer who said that "smuggling is as New England as boiled dinner."
And tomorrow you get to meet my supervisor, Hannah, in class!
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