It would be nioe to write a dignified and profound preface in regard t o the Lower Norfolk records* No. We will have to leave that to the historians if they ever fal l that low. Oftentimes what they have to say is quite true . Of course they are not all liars, prostitutes s and fools as my old friend Morgan Robinson, and the "Englishman, Horace Rounds, used to casually remark. It would be entertaining to hear what these "deceased gentlemen ( not~so gentle ) would have t o say concerning Toynbee, the prevailing fashion in history. Our good friends the historians love to talk C or write ) for the pleasure of hearing themselves talk , A most charming diversion from the dull facts of history.
Ronald Drysdale
It was your suggestion, I just did the leg work (willingly).
Regards
Jul 31
William Douglas
I do like this extract from the extracts...
It would be nioe to write a dignified and profound preface in regard
t o the Lower Norfolk records* No. We will have to leave that to the
historians if they ever fal l that low. Oftentimes what they have to say
is quite true . Of course they are not all liars, prostitutes s and fools
as my old friend Morgan Robinson, and the "Englishman, Horace Rounds, used to casually remark. It would be entertaining to hear what these "deceased gentlemen ( not~so gentle ) would have t o say concerning Toynbee, the prevailing fashion in history. Our good friends the historians love to talk C or write ) for the pleasure of hearing themselves talk , A most
charming diversion from the dull facts of history.
Jul 31
Ronald Drysdale
"The Brown-Lafferty Drysdale-Chamberlain ancestry"
- An interesting book which gives some details of a Drysdale family who emigrated from Scotland to America via Canada in the mid 1800s - .
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/?navigation=&...
Best regards
on Friday