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Edward Carpenter was an influential campaigner for sexual freedom, especially in same-sex relationships. Strongly influenced by Walt Whitman (who he visited in 1877) he pursued a utopian socialism, setting up his own working community near Sheffield. He worked with John Addington Symonds, who was preparing a major study of homosexuality with Havelock Ellis, supplying case studies from his private circle of friends. ‘In the course of 1894–5 the Labour Press, Manchester, published four of Carpenter’s pamphlets on sex: Sex-Love, and its Place in a Free Society; Woman, and her Place in a Free Society; Marriage in Free Society; Homogenic Love, and its Place in a Free Society... Among those who were influenced by his works were Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence’ (Chushichi Tsuzuki in ODNB). see full details...
While General Hoche’s fleet had been defeated by the weather in January 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte took up the cause later that year, writing to Talleyrand that France ‘must destroy the English monarchy, or expect itself to be destroyed by these intriguing and enterprising islanders... Let us concentrate all our efforts on the navy and annihilate England. That done, Europe is at our feet.’ Frightened gossip and hearsay dominated conversation throughout the South East and created a ready market for scaremongering broadsides such as this. It was widely believed that the French were constructing some form of barge to bring troops to England, and several contemporary broadsides exist claiming to depict it. This vast, if entirely improbable, wind-powered platform thought to be lurking somewhere in the Channel is described in the letterpress text beneath: ‘This Machine is flat; 2,100 Feet long, and 1,500 Feet broad; has 500 Cannon round it, of 36 and 48 pounders; at each end is two Wind Mills, which turns Wheels in the Water at every point of the Wind to Navigate; in the middle is a Fort enclosing Mortars, Perriers, &c. It carries 60,000 Men, Cavalry, Infantry, and Artillery.’ see full details...
The minute book covers six years and includes the record of the club’s foundation. After an initial section of club rules and procedures the entries alternate between monthly meetings and the records of club runs. The runs began at the club’s headquarters at the Rechabites Hall in the city centre and took members to local towns and beauty spots, including Prestbury, Latchford, Budworth, Knutsford and Buxton, most at a distance of around 30 miles, making the customary round trip around 60 miles. The club run records are brief but informative, describing the weather, the riders, the state of the roads, accidents and something of the destinations. On a run to Prestbury (near Macclesfield) in May 1898, 8 members turned out ‘owing to the unfavourable look of the weather’ to cover the 30 miles to Prestbury where the church was visited and ‘a call was made to a friends house when we had a musical half hour with a dash of ginger beer’, followed by a return journey to Manchester during which members spent ‘about half an hour at Ms H. Jackson’s where we regaled ourselves with herb beer & more music. There were no casualties on the road.’ A run to Marton in early June 1899 was hot, dusty and beset with punctures so ‘the club pump was in great demand’, while a a midnight run to Chester at Midsummer a few days later seems to have been a highlight; in July 1900 the clerk was ‘sorry to say that one of our lady members met with an accident, but fortunately however sustained no personal injury.’ Another midnight run in August 1900 took four members to Chester: ‘The return journey commenced about 12.15 a.m. & with nothing to impede their progress but cats and policemen the club rattled home in fine style & arrived in Manchester again about 4 a.m. Despite the serious distances covered on the road, the Walla Walla was evidently also a social club. Among the striking items in the manuscript are the tipped in formal invitations for meetings and social events which were printed on behalf of the Walla Walla. These include a Dinner and Social Evening at the Grotto Cafe in Stevenson Square in Manchester in November 1899, complete with an award of medals recorded in the attached minutes, and a full printed programme of entertainment for a social evening in 1900, with half tone photograph of the club members dressed as Napoleonic soldiers which had been first published in Cyclers News. The latter years’ minutes document the dissent within the club’s membership, concern over falling numbers, and the club’s diversification into rambling and swimming. see full details...
![HUES, Robert. D[enis] HENRION, translator.](/photos/551/main/551.jpg "HUES, Robert. D[enis] HENRION, translator.")
Hues had studied at Oxford where he became acquainted with Richard Hakluyt and later, Walter Raleigh and Thomas Harriot, before taking part in a voyage to Newfoundland. In five parts, the book describes the practical uses of the globes designed by Molyneux and, especially, how mariners could find the sun’s position, latitude, course and distance, amplitudes and azimuths, and time and declination. The fifth part describes the use of rhumb lines in navigation. The translation is by Denis Henrion, the Paris mathematician remembered for his edition of the works of Viète and for the introduction of the calculating device known as the proportional compass to France. Henrion’s is a faithful translation with numerous interpolations of his own (indicated by italics). In these, Henrion adds several practical details to the methods of calculation but also takes the opportunity to advertise his Cosmographie, which was not to appear until two years later. At several points he affirms Hues’ text while stating ‘comme nous avons enseigné en nostre Cosmographie.’ The notes on the operation of the proportional compass promised by the title are confined to very sparse remarks on how a lengthy calculation, for example, could be achieved simply with the compass. They would appear to be an attempt to advertise another of Henrion’s works, Usage du compas de proportion (also 1618) and perhaps the instruments themselves. see full details...
It had first appeared as a preface to Les crimes de l’amour (1799) and sought to trace the origins and development of the modern or psychological novel from classical literature to the eighteenth-century works of Rousseau, Voltaire, De Graffigny, Marivaux and Crébillon fils and in de Sade’s own Aline et Valcourt. De Sade identifies Richardson and Fielding as the masters of the genre (‘C’est Richardson, c’est Fielding qui nous ont appris que l’étude profonde du coeur de l’homme, véritable dédale de la nature, peut seul inspirer le romancier...’) and he prefers Lewis to Radcliffe among gothic novelists. He also denies his authorship of Justine, attributed to him by contemporaries, writing ‘jamais je n’ai fait de tels ouvrages, et je n’en ferai sûrement jamais.’ Uzanne adds a bio-bibliographical preface, the latter portion providing a checklist of de Sade’s works and a critical overview of nineteenth-century studies. see full details...
![BO[UCHER], [Juste Nathan] F[rançois].](/photos/561/main/561.jpg "BO[UCHER], [Juste Nathan] F[rançois].")
![‘STELLI, L.’ [pseudonym of Hippolyte MAGEN.]](/photos/559/main/559.jpg "‘STELLI, L.’ [pseudonym of Hippolyte MAGEN.]")
![(SADE, Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de). [BRUNET, Pierre Gustave.]](/photos/549/main/549.jpg "(SADE, Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de). [BRUNET, Pierre Gustave.]")
