Tragic

[anteros_lmc]

Remember the Collingwood diary I posted about last week, which Charles Miller are auctioning? Unsurprisingly it caught the attention of the Navy Records Society too and on Saturday they tweeted:




It seems that the NRS approached the seller to request permission to transcribe the journal before it's sold. Their answer? No.


Tragic. Just tragic. I can only hope the new owner will be a bit more generous with this unique journal.

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

How mean! Why on earth would they say no? People make no sense sometimes.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I asked exactly the same question. NRS suggested it could be because the seller may think that allowing transcription will lower the value. How sad.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Very sad-- and greedy too.

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

It's always galling to see such items go to private collectors and not the nation. Bartholomew suggests an act where such things are handed over, like treasure trove. Lord H blames such an attitude on the summer there were Chartists in the park who kept feeding Bartholomew sausage.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

If items like this are going to be sold into proviate collections, then at least they should be transcribed first.

there were Chartists in the park who kept feeding Bartholomew sausage.
Chartists? Sausages? WTF are you on about?!

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Surely you know who the Chartists were!!!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Course I do. They were the people that made sea charts!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I approve of Bartholomew and his Chartist sympathies, even if they were acquired with sausage.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I suspect Bartholomew is not the first to have his political sympathies swayed by a sausage!

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

As usual, Bartie has the right idea. Lord H should give him a sausage for being a clever boy.

(Maybe Lord H could use a nice sausage too, and stop being a grump. I am sure Mr K can find one somewhere...)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Hehe! I read this during a dull moment at work this afternoon and I've been sniggering ever since XD

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I thought we fed him thistles when he got grouchy, as they were Eeyore's favorite food?

Oh. THAT kind of sausage. ;-) :-P

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Well yes, indeed.

[joyful-molly.livejournal.com]

No transcript = higher value. Simples but stupid.

I'm still rallying around like a blue-arsed fly to free the funds I need to bid. I have a snowball's chance in hell, but SHOULD the impossible happen, be assured there will be a) transcripts and b) access by the public.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

*praying for the snowball*

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

You need a Person of Means to buy it, and then donate it back to the nation.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

We live in hope!