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Photo Request: Zaragoza Museo de Tapices
Hi Yodin! Yes, I'm from Zaragoza although living now in Germany (I didn't update the Photographers table for years :-S). Anyway, I usually travel to Zaragoza three or four times a year, next time will be probably at the end of May/beginning of June. If waiting is not a problem for you, I can for sure go then to the museum and take some photos of the tapestry, it shouldn't be any problem :-) Regards! -- Willtron ( ? )  07:42, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Yep, that would be great thanks! And yeah, no rush! &#8209;&#8209; Yodin T 21:55, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Yodin! As promised I was yesterday in the museum taking some photos of the tapestry. I tried to take some general views and also some details of the three main characters. You can find them all here. Enjoy them and best regards! :-) -- Willtron ( ? ) [[Image:LinkFA-star Aragon.svg|15px]] 08:53, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much, hugely appreciate it! Will add them to the articles now 👍👍👍 &#8209;&#8209; Yodin T 12:34, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

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Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations
You're welcome. I'd never heard of this book before, and I'm intrigued. You need not have read it, of course, but if you have should I be reading it as well? Does it bear comparison with Carlyle's German Romance for example? --Antiquary (talk) 09:02, 27 October 2022 (UTC)


 * The translations are very hit and miss, definitely not as good as Carlyle, but there are some interesting stories in there. I haven't read all of them yet (I'm slowly working my way through adding them on Wikisource), but though some of these translations seem to have been quite influential (e.g. for Stevenson's "Bottle Imp", Poe's "Ligeia", and for including the first Nibelungenlied story to be translated into English), I think the works they inspired tend to be much better. I was drawn to the book as it had a complete translation of one of the Fantasmagoriana stories (the same one as Carlyle's German Romance; I find it interesting that he chose to translate three others from Popular Tales too), but finally decided to start the article when I came across some quite obscure sources that give some of the possible translators (De Quincey seemed to be the only one identified in recent academic mentions of the book). The article's very much still in progress though – I think there's a bound to be a better way to write the Translators section, there are more contemporary reviews, which all need to be summarised more concisely than the ones there now, and there is some academic coverage of De Quincey's involvement with the book too (he worked closely with the publisher Bohte, who probably deserves his own article too). Would also be great to find a reliable source that identifies the original version of "The Magic Dollar" (the only theory I can find is ISFDB claiming the author is la Motte Fouqué, probably assuming it's just a variant of "The Bottle-Imp"). Looking through the articles you've written, any advice on improving the article that occurs to you would be much appreciated! &#8209;&#8209; Yodin T 17:10, 27 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes, I suppose it always was going to be unlikely that they were up to the Carlyle standard, but my curiosity remains. I'll try them.  I wouldn't, by the way, read too much into Carlyle's having chosen four stories from Fantasmagoriana: his letters make it clear that he was having a hard job finding much German fiction up there in 1820s Scotland, so he wouldn't have had much scope for rejecting stories.  I find it difficult to give anyone advice on the composition of their WP articles since my own method is just to write up every data point I can find and then heap them together in such order as might give the illusion there was some sort of reasoned thought at work.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  I tend to concentrate on the literary-biographical and bibliographical aspects of my subject and often fight shy of summarising modern criticism, since I'm not sure that opinion, even expert opinion, really has a place here.  But I may be wrong.  "The Magic Dollar" is ascribed to La Motte Fouqué by the Ashley and Contento Supernatural Index, which is perhaps ISFDb's source, but is either of them reliable enough to use?  I suppose you've tried feeding sample phrases from each of the stories into Google Books to see if they turn up in some collection by De Quincey or whoever else?  In some ways GB allows you to be a better bibliographer than the greatest experts in the 20th century were. --Antiquary (talk) 18:28, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you! And I couldn't agree more about Google Books etc. making so much possible that would have taken a lifetime or more to find otherwise – will try as you suggest. &#8209;&#8209; Yodin T 19:27, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * thank you very much! 😁 &#8209;&#8209; Yodin T 19:29, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

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Mrs Henry Rolls (Mary Hillary)
Yodin - great to see your work on this lady - my 3rd g-grandmother. My wife and i visited All Saints Church Aldwinckle last year and were surprised to find that her remains are under the altar in that place. I'll try to edit the entry (my first time at doing so!) to update IBW54 (talk) 23:43, 21 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the edit, and welcome to Wikipedia :) I've added the standard welcome template to your talk page (though it looks like you've already worked out how to edit, and add links, etc.), and have looked over the Mary Rolls article again. I started the article when I was researching The Literary Magnet, which had published some of her poems, and thought I would make an article for her at the same time, so it's currently just a brief outline of her life; please add to the article if you'd like! And let me know if I can help or you have any questions. -- Yodin T 07:17, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks - my wife and I travelled from Brisbane to the UK last year to dig up some dead relatives so I have a little bit on her and her more famous brother Sir William - who founded the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Over the years I've found a lot of her poems in the Magnet and its like - including one published on the front page of a Sydney newspaper in 1840 - "The Deluge". The British Library has published some of her works in the last decade or so. Once I can figure out how to navigate the maze of copyright stuff I'll try to attach the photo of her plaque which I expect was paid for by brother William as he gives himself billing too! John Dryden was also born in the All Saints Rectory. 27.99.27.14 (talk) 02:10, 23 May 2024 (UTC)