The diary sounds fascinating! And I note that it is available both on archive.org and as a Librivox audiobook, with a reader who sounds quite pleasant to listen to. Perhaps I'll have a listen to it.
I am charmed by the spider. Interesting about the servants--I remember Mitchison writing that in Scotland the tradition of the servants eating with the family survived longer. Do the servants eat with him?
I think it's reasonable enough that his parents could have been Jacobites in 1725 (I can't see any other reason for the Sobieski name--even if there had been another connection, they would have been too aware of the impression on others to use it), but that he wouldn't have been in 1760, when Jacobitism was waning.
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Date: May. 8th, 2022 05:15 pm (UTC)I am charmed by the spider. Interesting about the servants--I remember Mitchison writing that in Scotland the tradition of the servants eating with the family survived longer. Do the servants eat with him?
I think it's reasonable enough that his parents could have been Jacobites in 1725 (I can't see any other reason for the Sobieski name--even if there had been another connection, they would have been too aware of the impression on others to use it), but that he wouldn't have been in 1760, when Jacobitism was waning.