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This is fabulous stuff, thank you all!

John, I have searched the BL Manuscript Catalogue as well, and turned up nothing promising. Also, I know exactly the games you mention in the OECG. There is something that feels... different about them, compared to the other games from that era in the OECG. They all are noted as coming from the Murr...

I've just received a reply from the Archivist at the Linnean Society. They've searched up and down, and found no sign of the notebooks. Anything we can do next?

Hello John, and thank you. I'm pleased to make your acquaintance! For a while now, I've been trying to decide whether to inquire at the Linnean Society. It does have a library, archive, and a very good online catalogue. For Woods, the only really interesting result is his botanical notebooks. There ...

Along the lines of John Townsend's recent post about Cecil de Vere.. I've come across the following passage about botanist and architect Joseph Woods: "Painstaking and laborious even in his amusements, he kept a record, forming three thick octavo volumes, of many games played, about the years 1808-1...