Sunday, October 12, 2025

10/11 Ball

 We are loving the breakfast and lunch in our room.  This morning there were muffins and coffee outside of the room with the speaker.  We packed up ours to augment our lunch.

Our speaker this morning was Dr. Juliette Wells, from Goucher College.  She talked about an alumnus who had a very extensive collection of Jane's works.  First editions, translations, etc.  Pretty much anything she could get her hands on that was worth while.  She donated it all to the Morgan Library and Goucher.  Dr. Wells recently co-curated a JA exhibit at the Morgan and her talk was about all of these things.

The fearless leader of the Southern California chapter in one of her many dresses and the hat she wore to celebrate Jane's 250th.


A young woman wore an homage to Edgar Allen Poe. (From Baltimore)
Banquet was ordinary.  Janet had chicken and I had salmon.  Mine was better but not great.  The birthday cupcakes were pretty good.


We took our pictures in front of Chawton House and went to the ball.



We managed to dance the 1st and 3rd with a rest between.  These dances went on for a long time.  We were only doing short versions of them.
Off to bed.



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