The Speckled Monster (83 page)

Vienna: Travels down the Danube and description of Vienna's buildings and furnishings, LMCL 1:259-61; Viennese gown and hairstyle, and visits with the empresses: LMCL 1:265-69; LM's witty war with Viennese ladies: LMCL 1:295, n. 1. London milk-maid sporting the May Day headdress to which LM compared her Viennese hairstyle: Laroon 120-21.

Pope's letters to LM: Pope,
Correspondence
1:352-58, 363-65, 367-70, 382-85.

To Hanover: LM's dislike of Bohemia and runaway carriage over the River Elbe: LMCL 1:280-82; the cramped Portuguese ambassador: LMCL 1:286; Hanoverian heaters and midwinter fruit: 1:289-91. Viennese fears for LM, her refusal to give up the journey, Prince Eugene as cross-dressed Hercules, the empress's dwarfs, and LM's farewell to her sister: LMCL 1:293-96. Farewell to Pope: LMCL 1:296-97.

Vienna to Adrianople: LMCL 1:297-304; Battle of Peterwaradin, travels through Turkish Balkans, Achmet Bey: LMCL 1:304-308 and 315-321. Battle of Peterwaradin: see also McKay 158-63. Baths of Sofia: LMCL 1:312-15, and Spence,
Observations
1:311-12. LM's “former sufferings and mortifications” leading her to observe inoculation: Stuart 35.

LM in Turkey: Grundy, LMWM 142-66; LMCL 1:344-415.

LM's smallpox/plague letter (including story of Maitland's arrival with the second cook, LM's amazement at his recovery): LM to Sarah Chiswell, 1 April 1717, LMCL 1:337-40; “Head of Letters” indicating “Small pox” letter sent to LM's father: LMCL 1:346; Sloane's claim that she wrote the court and her friends: Sloane 517.

LM's Turkish dress: LMCL 1:325-30; Vanmour painting reproduced in LM,
Embassy to Constantinople
38; on these portraits (and the Kneller), see Grundy, LMWM 142, 201-202, 301-303. Turkish dancing and music: LMCL 1:351; Turkish beauty: LMCL 1:327. Balm (or Balsam) of Mecca: LMCL 1:345 (letter heading to Kielmansegg), 368-69; Prescott 119-22. Eighteenth-century Constantinople, generally: Mansel; like a cabinet full of jars: LMCL 1:397.

Inoculation conversations between LM and Maitland: Maitland 4-7.

Pope's letter to LM re “Eloisa to Abelard”: Pope 1:407; LM writing verse on Boxing Day: Grundy, LMWM 159; LM's poem: “Constantinople,” LMEP 207-10; young Mary's birth: Grundy, LMWM 149.

Edward Wortley junior's inoculation: Maitland 7-8; LMCL 1:391-94.

Experiences she could not replicate in London: official visit to the Hagia Sofia, bazaar and dervishes: LMCL 1:396-403. Sneaking into the Hagia Sofia: Halsband,
Life
82-83; Grundy, LMWM 166. LM's Arabian horses: LMCL 1:341. Glimpse of the Sultan: LMCL 1:323-34; Sultan's titles: Mansel 8-9, 28. Emerald big as a turkey's egg: LMCL 1:382; mother-of-pearl and emerald room: LMCL 1:414. Murdered woman: LMCL 1: 407-08.
I am almost of the opinion
. . . : LMCL 1: 415.

Dryden's poem: “Upon the Death of Lord Hastings” (1649), in Dryden 1-3. Flowers blooming in January 1721: Grundy, LMWM 209. Wortley Montagu home in Covent Garden: Grundy, LMWM 182, 185-86.

Rift in the royal family, and the king's love for his grandchildren: Hatton 206-10, 213-16; Van der Kiste,
King George II
62-75. Princess Anne's illness, and the king and the Princess of Wales meeting outside her sickchamber: Cowper 139-49; Sloane 517.

LM's part in the South Sea bubble: Grundy, LMWM 203-209.

London's smallpox epidemics of 1719-21, and the deaths of LM's friends: Grundy, LMWM 209-210, Creighton 2:461-63; Social life ceasing:
Applebee's
no. 1996, Saturday, March 4, 1721. Smallpox house in Swallow Street: Rose 18; Amyand, “List,” folio 3 (under Lord Bathurst's servant). Young Mary's nurse having previously refused inoculation: LMCL 1:392; Grundy, LMWM 162; Mary's inoculation: Maitland 8-10; Grundy, LMWM 209-210.

ZB's early years: Mager; Peter Thacher; Winslow. Genealogies: Wyman; William Gray Brooks;
The Booke of the Boylstones
. Thomas Boylston as soldier: Bodge. Lack of Oxford degree: Foster. ZB nearly dying of smallpox in 1702: ZBHA 1; Sydenham's protégé (Dr. Thomas Dover): Creighton 2:446, note 1; Dover 119-20. ZB's shop: Mager 7-10; ZBHA 46-48. ZB's interest in rattlesnake-bite remedies: Mager 184-86;
Some Account
9. For the widespread British and colonial fascination with rattlesnakes and their bites, see Stearns,
Science
. ZB's interest in ambergris: ZB, “Ambergris”; Mager 173-74.

Minots: Shattuck; Minot;
Boston Marriages
7.

Onesimus: CMD Dec. 16, 1706, 1: 579-80; March 20, 1716, 2:342; and July 31, 1716, 2:363 (slightly anachronistic). See also CMD 2:139, 222, 271-72, 282, 446, 456; and CMSL 213-14. “Dying like rotten sheep”: CMA 1-2.

The Middle Passage: Mannix, Huggins. Black slaves in New England: Greene, McManus, Wright. Olaudah Equiano: Equiano. Garamantes in classical literature:
Lemprière's Classical Dictionary
.

CM's life and character: Silverman. Letter to Dr. John Woodward, July 12, 1716: CMSL 213-14; further excerpts in Kittredge, “Some Lost Works” 422. (CM's draft of this letter is in the Massachusetts Historical Society; a transcription of the fair copy sent to Woodward exists in BL, Sloane MS 3340.) Doing Good: Silverman 227-37; CMSL 87-92. Stutter: Silverman 15-17, 33-38, 48-49, 172-73. CM's youthful study of medicine: CMAB iv; Beall and Shyrock 8-10; Silverman 21-22. CM's family and domestic life, including relations with Onesimus: Silverman 261-75, 279-94. Katy Mather: Silverman 267-68, 269, 291-92.

Curiosa Americana and the Royal Society: Silverman 247-54, 260; CMSL 107-22; Stearns,
Science
403-26. Articles in
Philosophical Transactions:
PTRS 29, no. 339 (April-June, 1714): 62-71 (CM), 72-82 (Timonius).

Captain John Gore: Cooper,
Sermon;
obituary in BNL no. 876, Dec. 19-26, 1720; and
Acts and Resolves
10:28; Thwing RCN 21801.

HMS
Seahorse:
documents in Britain's Public Record Office: paybook: ADM 33/316; master's log: ADM 52/482; Durell's letters: ADM 1/1694; Durell's passing certificate for lieutenant: ADM 107/2. Ship description and specifications: Lyon. Life in the eighteenth-century British navy, including health and medicine: Rodger, Marcus. Durell and trumpets: SSD 2:1018, (Aug. 1, 1724 and note). Durell biography: Fergusson.

Names of ships and their captains arriving in the convoy: BNL no. 896, May 1-8, 1721.

Captain Paxton's letters to the Admiralty: PRO MS ADM 1/2277. Charles Paxton:
Seahorse
paybook, PRO MS ADM 33/316, no. 206. Deeds and possessions: Thwing RCN 48823 (Wentworth Paxton), 32739 (Faith Gillam or Gillum), and (22152) Benjamin Gillam.

Hector Bruce:
Seahorse
paybook, PRO MS ADM 33/316, no. 207; BG no. 97, Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 1721. Richard Kent:
Seahorse
paybook, PRO MS ADM 33/316, no. 208; Thwing RCN 41536.

Selectmen's meeting and John Clark's inspection of
Seahorse:
SM 81-82, and BTR 153-54. Spectacle Island and Boston's quarantine laws: Blake 34-36.

ZB's early career and family: Mager 1-27; Wyman. Sharp's advertisement: BG no. 43, Oct. 3-7, 1720; no. 44, Oct. 10-17, 1720; no. 46, Oct. 24-31, 1720; no. 47, Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 1720, and no. 48, Nov. 7-14, 1720; BNL no. 865, Oct. 3-10, 1720, and no. 866, Oct. 10-17, 1720. Winslow's advertisement, dated Oct. 14, 1720: BNL no. 873, Nov 28-Dec 5, 1720 (edited for ease of reading); with slight alterations (including a surgery date of July 28): BG no. 50, Nov 21-28, 1720, and no. 51, Nov. 28-Dec. 5, 1720. Sharp's later whereabouts: BG no. 65, March 6-13, 1721. Winslow genealogy: Paige 71. Black slaves as physicians' assistants: Greene 118-19. Jack as ZB's slave: BG no. 85, July 10-17, 1721.

Boston history, politics, and topography: Bridenbaugh; Hutchinson, vol. 2; Perry Miller; Thwing,
Crooked and Narrow Streets;
Whitehill and Kennedy.

Town meeting, May 12, 1721: BTR 153-54. Payments to Captain Clark and his men: JHRM 3:75, 107-108,
Acts and Resolves
10:105.

Selectmen's meeting, May 12, 1721: SM 82. William Hutchinson: Thwing RCN 39747; Thomas Hutchinson 2:188. Lion in the South End: BG no. 70, April 10-17, 1721; no. 83, June 27-July 3, 1721. The Bunch of Grapes tavern and billiards: Bridenbaugh 265-66, 428-29, 436-37; Samuel Adams Drake, Elisha Cooke, and John Clark versus the governor: Thomas Hutchinson 2:174-96.

Seahorse:
Discharged and dead sailors: paybook, PRO MS ADM 33/316; Ship's movements and Boston weather: master's log, PRO MS ADM 52/482; two sailors warned out of town: SM 86.

Door-to-door search of town: BNL, no. 898, May 15-22, 1721; street cleaning: SM 82-83; Smallpox aboard the captured pirate ship: Captain Durell's letter to the Admiralty from Boston, June 27, 1721, PRO MS ADM 1/1694.

CM, Lydia, Lizzy, Creasy, smallpox, and the angels: Silverman 127-28, 173-86, 292-94, 307-40; CMD May 26 and 28, 1721, 2:620-21.

Thomas Newton obituary and report of eight people ill: BG no. 77, May 22-29, 1721.

Unnamed black man's description of African inoculation: CMAB 107; CM's “army of Africans”: “Sentiments on the Small Pox Inoculated,” printed anonymously at the end of Increase Mather,
Several Reasons
. WD's “half a dozen or half a score Africans, by others called Negroe Slaves”: WD,
Inoculation
6-7. Colman's interview with a slave: Colman,
Some Observations
15-16.

General Court adjourning to Cambridge: Hutchinson 2:189; Selectmen moving the school: SM 83; CM's further dithering: CMD May 30, June 2 and 5, 1721, 2:622-24; Obadiah's terror of smallpox: CMD June 6, 1721, 2:624; CM's first letter to the physicians, June 6, 1721: excerpt quoted in
Vindication
7-8 and Greenwood 5-6.

WD's personality and attitudes: BNL no. 912, July 17-24, 1721; Bullock; “Douglass, William” in DAB; WDD throughout, especially 2, 5, 7-8; WDCC 164-71; “Douglass, William, M.D.” in James Thacher; Thwing RCN 24444; Stearns,
Science
480-84; Kittredge, “Some Lost Works” 423-27. I have not been able to look at Muse. Eighteen days: WDCC 168; WDPE 9. Mockery of ZB on horseback: NEC no. 2, Aug. 7-14, 1721; Locking the books away:
Some Account
10; ZBHA 3; CMA 9; Greenwood 9. Scottish accent (and a mocking view of WD in general): Greenwood. Smallpox studies: WDPE (management of smallpox cases, with special attention to cases of hemorrhagic smallpox in 1721 epidemic), WDD (mostly a rant against early inoculators); WDS (statistical reviews of 1721, 1730, and 1752 epidemics).

CM's library: Silverman 262-63 (an earlier house), 289.

Boylston girls in Roxbury: ZBHA 16-17. Rebecca Abbot and Mary Lane: William Gray Brooks 3, 9. Failing to get to Cambridge, due to Boston-Roxbury travel: ZBHA 23-24. Boys at home: ZBHA ii (where he refers to plural children), 1-3 (Tommy), 6-7 (John); Colman,
Some Observations
3 (also referring to plural children). Indian attack on the Minot home: NEHGR 15 (1861): 267. This story's truth has been questioned; whether or not it was true, it was certainly a widely told tale. The pirate Roberts: BNL no. 897, May 8-15, 1721.

CM's smallpox treatise and second letter to the physicians: CMD June 22-23, 1721, 2:627-28. Copy sent to WD:
Some Account
10.

Dr. John Perkins: CMD Aug. 7, 1711, 2:93; March 22, 1721, 2:609; April 5, 1721, 2:611; May 24, 1721, 2:620; June 21, 1721, 2:627; Mager 78; Silverman 246.

ZB's horses: ZB, letter to Benjamin Colman, Feb. 26, 1724/5; Hollis 533, 551; “Boylston, Dr. Zabdiel, FRS.” in James Thacher 1:191. The countryside he rides through: Thwing,
Crooked and Narrow Streets;
Whitehill and Kennedy. Hanging of Joseph Hanno or Hono: BG no. 74, May 1-8, 1721, and no. 77, May 22-29, 1721; BNL no. 899, May 22-29, 1721; CMD May 13, 1721, 2:618; May 25, 1721, 2:620; May 31, 1721, 2:623.

CM's letter to ZB/the physicians: Peter Thacher 778. No copy of the original appears to have survived. CM's treatise: CMAB. WD as “complete snarler”: Alexander Hamilton 116-17. Death “terrible in all its shapes”: ZBHA iii, 38.

Enslaved blacks in colonial Boston: Greene. ZB quoting black man on inoculation:
Some Account
9; smallpox in Africa, and African inoculation practices: Herbert; Hopkins 164-80; WHO 233-35.

The sick woman in the shop:
Vindication
8-9.

“Make hay while the sun shines”: WDCC July 28, 1721, 166-67.
Seahorse
firing her guns: master's log, PRO MS ADM 52/482. Boston's “crooked and narrow streets”: Thwing,
Crooked and Narrow Streets
7-8. WD's claim that ZB had not seen one case of natural small-pox: BNL no. 912, July 17-24, 1721. Colman's defense of ZB: “Letter to the Reverend Mr.———of Boston,” July 25, 1721 (MS draft of letter to unnamed minister), printed in Fitz 327. A much-cut version of this letter was printed in BG no. 88, July 27-31, 1721.

Descriptions of inoculation and clamor in the streets: ZBHA Preface, 1-3, 42-50; BG no. 85, July 10-27, 1721; CMA 9-10, 15-18; CMD June 30, 1721, 2:628, and July 16, 1721, 2:632; Hutchinson 2:206; “Boylston, Dr. Zabdiel, FRS” in James Thacher 1:187-90 (incorporating Ward Nicholas Boylston's account of the noose-bearing crowds). More of ZB's thoughts:
Some Account
8-17.

Tommy at the pump: Colman,
Some Observations
3. Hamilton's slave named Cotton Mather: HMS
Seahorse
paybook, PRO MS ADM 33/316, no. 266; CMD Dec. 10, 1721, 2:663.

ZB's treatment of his son: ZBHA 2, 44-47. Tommy's course through smallpox: Ricketts 1: 26-28, 43-50, and 64 (chart of a case of discrete smallpox without secondary fever).