Notable letters from the past.

[blindly_fumblin]

Rev. Thomas Sheridan to Jonathon Swift, 15 July, 1735

Dear Mister Dean,
You writ me some time ago, and I am ready to answer it thus. Alack-a-day, my ill ink, deuce is in it, is not a bit fit for a Dean; it is more fit for a puppy. I'll use it to Tighe. I writ a Tory pamphlet, and Dick Tighe tore all, every bit. Dick is a beast. Dick is a serpent, I

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[dodgethis]

Well, the Tories are the British conservative party aren't they? I Googled Dick Tighe and your LJ was the fifth result. Maybe he only exists in your imagination? My guess is that he's some bloody poofter liberal who wants to make violent rape illegal or some such. The Michael Moore of his day!

[blindly_fumblin]

Searching for it in quotation marks with the addition of "1735" makes my lj the first result! Is that fame?

So the only results for '"Dick Tighe" 1735' on the internet are references in a selection of letters by the above mentioned Jonathon Swift to a lady Stella, and in the footnote of some poems by him (which are actually also excerpts form the above letters). He wasn't a big fan of Tighey! Anyway, he seems to be described as a stiffling, horrible little man, who beats his wife.

"Dick Tighe and his wife lodged over against us; and he has been seen, out of our upper windows, beating her two or three times; ... I am told she is the most urging, provoking devil that ever was born; and he a hot whiffling puppy, very apt to resent."

[blindly_fumblin]

Ah! And of course Jonathon Swift (also known as Dean Swift), is the original author of Gulliver's Travels, the writer Reverend Thomas Sheridan being his bestest buddy, or something like that.

History Is Interesting.

[the_horseshoe]

Emily is right about the Torys(?) Tories(?)

[rhythmicsilence]

I might send this letter to my head of department at uni and just change the names. I think that would sum up my opinion of her nicely.