Links for 23 November 2003

23 Nov 2003 in Writing

Statement of a Photographic Man

An excerpt from Henry Mayhew’s 19th century ‘London Labour and the London Poor’, in which a photographer describes one of the many scams he pulls on people with this new technology.

On this day I was reading

• The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1660 v. 1 by Robert Latham (Editor), William Matthews (Editor), Samuel Pepys (Author)