User talk:Amity150

Isaac Watts & Lady Mary Abney
I have not written for a while but logged in this week and saw you'd left me a note in October and an alert. For soem reason when I read it a couple of days ago I remember you asking for a source concerning my comment that Dr Watts' poems and hymns were inspired by the grounds at Abney Park, and wondering how this was given the dates of his residence; but now I can't find these questions ! Possibly they were in an ephemeral comment that has disappeared now I have logged in again ? I am not sure if this helps but I can offer the following. Dr Watts moved from Southampton to Stoke Newington on October 15th 1696 to become tutor to the son of John Hartopp/Sir John Hartopp. This mansion was Fleetwood House a large rambling structure behnid which lay a c60acre enclave of Copyhold fields in the manorial Demesne that lay north of Church Street (the main village thoroughfare). The eastern parts of the copyholds were used by Fleetwood House and ornamental or landscaped gardens were laid out in a fashion on parts close to the mansion. The adjoining copyhold was shortly chosen as teh site for the 'set piece design' or rather more grand Church Street mansion of Abney House. This was built in the late 1690s by Lady Abney's brother, Thomas Gunston. Lady Mary Abney inherited this mansion and its grounds following her brother's untimely death just after he had all but completed it. The completed Abney House, the Manor House, was able to take in about half of the copyhold that lay north of Church Street including parts formerly associated with Fleetwood House, as its own parkland estate; albeit much remained as fields, probably with sheep, and the lower parts remained a 'wilderness' down to the Hackney Brook and its island Heronry which formed a natural park boundary. Whilst Watts was living at Fletwood House and Thomas Gunston began building Abney House 'next door' and assembling the estate parklands around it, the two became great friends. Here, during the 1690s, from the very first when he came to live with the Hartopp's, Watts was therefore already invited to walk in, and compose in, the estate grounds that were soon to be Abney Park. This appears to have become something he greatly enjoyed, particularly in the company of Mary Abney's brother Thomas Gunston. The best primary source I can suggest would be Dr Watts 'Horae Lyricae' ('poems chiefly of a Lyric kind') which he compiled into three books, first published as a collection, I believe, in May 1709 - but then reprinted in countless editions over the centuries that followed. The second book of 'Horae Lyricae' contains Watts' lyrical poems to/for his friends and members of his congregation at Mark Lane, including verses to John Hartopp and to Mary Abney's late brother Thomas Gunston (written for Mary Abney). The latter contains his most detailed descriptions of the Abney Park gounds and expresses his deep emotional attachments to Thomas Gunston, to the fledgling Abney House (and in particular its unusual roof turret built to survey/overlook the whole of Abney Park), and to the grounds of Abney Park. The fairly long poem describes extensively, in several separate parts, Watt's fond memories of his walks with Thomas Gunston in the park grounds, and their enjoyment of roof turret overlooking the park. Secondary sources each have their own perspective. Arthur Paul Davis (p22) puts Watts' 'Logic' (1724) and sections of 'Improvement of the Mind' (1741) in the context of having been written during his teaching experience with the Hartopps. David Fountain (p39) refers to how 'Watts and Gunston loved to walk and unbend to each other under a row of 'reverend elms' that were the glory of Mr Gunston's grounds'. Paul Jouce (p23) refers to how 'watts was willingly cought up in the great house-building project next door, while the two neighbouring estates, freely explored by this oddly complementary pair, became transfigured by their minds' eye into a splendid stately park". The island heronry so beloved of Watts, and reputed to be a spot associated with his writings, was enclosed into the much later Congregationalist non-denominational garden cemetery (1840-c1880 / & then a general cemetery co. until 1978) who commissioned it to be laid out as a memorial landscape feature ( 'Dr Watts' Mound' with a dedication stone and chestnut tree). Aha ! i have to go now - my wife just called and I am meetng her. But if this raises any further questions, do please contact me. I may have made mistakes etc and if you wish to improve the piece or make it clearer, change or amend, please do of course. Or any questions if I can help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Isaacwatts (talk • contribs) 22:38, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Huntington vs huntingtin
The gene is called huntingtin, and it causes Huntington disease. Weird science, eh? TedTalk/Contributions 02:48, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I got your message, but it was left on my User page. They actually belong on the "Talk" page (discussion tab).  I didn't notice the capitalization, just the letter "o".  The gene is capitalized.  The protein is lower case.TedTalk/Contributions 03:17, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

American music (you aren't the spammer)
Our edits were nearly simultaneous, so I didn't even see what you'd written by the time I reverted. Note the time stamps. My revert deleted the "Hipinion" section, see, e.g., Articles for deletion/Hipinion. Calbaer 01:19, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I see, okay, very sorry to think the worst!! Thank you for answering me so quickly. Amity150 01:21, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

William Hammond
Hi, you didn't seem too sure how to handle this, so I helped out. I reverted your edit, moved the ship article to William Hammond (ship), and created a placeholder at William Hammond. You should now be able to commence your person article at William Hammond. Hesperian 00:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Category Listing
Hey thanks for contributing however it is unnecessary to make a heading titled Category Listing for each article you edit, and is actually probobly better off if you didn't, since it doesn't really mesh well with the encyclapedic style: Think of it this way at the botom of a page in a print encyclapedia you don't see a section that says Page Number: 90 you just see a 90. same goes for categorys. Deathawk 06:44, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Socianism → Psilanthropism
This debate went on for 16 days without resolution in Redirects for discussion/Log/2006 December 5. Some suggested it must be re-targeted, one said it must be deleted. What do you think? --Gh87 06:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the vocabulary fix on Operation Auca... seems like I learn something new every day! --Spangineerws (háblame)  03:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

New Sacred Harp articles -- requesting critique
Hello Amity,

I've recently produced Leading Sacred Harp music and Pitching Sacred Harp music. I assume you would know a lot about these topics, so if you're willing to take a look and identify possible errors/gaps/etc. I'd be very appreciative.

Yours truly, Opus33 (talk) 20:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

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