Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones, & Einstein's Brain

by Harvey Rachlin

  Vikan, Gary. “A Vase and a Chalice.” Paper delivered at the Curator’s Choice dinner on June 9, 1986, at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland.

  THE BOOK OF KELLS

  Book of Kells. Facsimile edition. New York: Abrams, 1991.

  Brown, Peter. The Book of Kells. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.

  Lewis, Paul. “Rare Manuscripts from the Public.” The New York Times, January 25, 1987.

  “The Long Room and the Book of Kells.” Pamphlet. Dublin: Trinity College Library, n.d.

  Schoeffling, Conrad. “The Book of Kells.” Pamphlet. C. W. Post College, Long Island University, Brookville, N.Y., 1990.

  Simms, G. O. “The Book of Kells.” Manuscript essay. N.d.

  Simms, G. O. The Book of Kells: A Selection of Pages Reproduced with a Description. Chester Springs, Penn.: Dufour, 1972.

  THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY AND THE DOMESDAY BOOK

  Bernstein, David J. The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

  Bertrand, Simone. The Bayeux Tapestry. English edition. Ouest France, 1978.

  Douglas, David C. William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964.

  Finn, R. Welldon. Domesday Book: A Guide. Chichester, England: Phillimore, 1973.

  Galbraith, V. H. Domesday Book: Its Place in Administrative History. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

  La Tapisserie de Bayeux. Réalisation Édition. Ville de Bayeux: Artaud Frères.

  Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England. New York: Facts on File, 1986.

  THE HOLY CHILD OF ARACOELI

  “The Holy Bambino of Aracoeli.” Pamphlet. N.p., n.d.

  “Il S. Bambino di Aracoeli.” Pamphlet. Rome: Convento Aracoeli, 1970.

  Lo Bello, Nino. “A Christ Child of Roman Lore.” Newsday, December 2, 1990.

  Rothermund, B. Traduzione Del Tedesco da “Guedeureiche Jesuleire.” 1982.

  Santa Maria in Aracoeli: Album Guide. Rome: n.p., n.d.

  COLUMBUS’S BOOKS OF PRIVILEGES

  Bradford, Ernie. Christopher Columbus. New York: Viking, 1973.

  Davenport, Frances G. “Texts of Columbus’s Privileges.” American Historical Review, vol. 14 (1909), 764-76.

  Granzotto, Giani. Christopher Columbus: The Dream and the Obsession. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985.

  “The Letters of Cristopher Columbus and the ‘Codice del Privilegi’ (Privilege Code).” Pamphlet. Genoa, Italy: Comune di Genova, 1991.

  Morison, Samuel E. Admiral of the Ocean Sea. Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.

  Pérez-Bustamante, Don Ciriaco. Libro de los Privilegios de Almirante Don Cristobal Colon (1498). Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 1951.

  Plakas, Rosemary. Information sheet on “Colombo, Cristoforo, Codice Diplomatico Columbo-Americano.” Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, n.d.

  Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, compiler and ed. Christopher Columbus: His Own Book of Privileges, 1502, Photographic Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Archives of the Foreign Office in Paris, Now for the First Time Published with Expanded Text Translation into English and an Historical Introduction. With an introduction by Henry Harrisse. London: B. F. Stevens, 1893.

  Thacher, John Boyd. Christopher Columbus: His Life, His Work, His Remains. 3 vols. New York: Putnam’s, 1903.

  Welter, H., ed. À Propos d’un Manuscript du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères. Paris, 1894.

  THE CANTINO MAP

  Frabetti, Pietro. La “Charta Del Navicare” Del Cantino. Modena: ARBE, n.d. My account is based on this pamphlet.

  Milano, Ernesto. La carta del Cantino e la rappresentazione della Terra nei codici e nei libri a stampa della Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria. Modena: Il Bulino, 1991.

  Wilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers. New York: Knopf, 1981.

  THE HOPE DIAMOND

  American Philatelist, May 1986. Source of the postage paid to mail the Hope to the Smithsonian.

  Block, Maxine, ed. Current Biography, Who’s News and Why, 1943. New York: H.W.Wilson, 1944.

  Crowningshield, Robert. “Grading the Hope Diamond.” Gems and Gemology, vol. 25, no. 2 (Summer 1989), pp. 91-94.

  Current Biography, 1947. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1948.

  Dickinson, Joan Younger. The Book of Diamonds. New York: Crown, 1965.

  James, Edward T, ed. Dictionary of American Biography (Supplement Three, 1941-1945). New York: Scribner’s, 1973.

  McLean, Evalyn Walsh, with Boyden Sparkes. Father Struck It Rich. Boston: Little, Brown, 1936. Source of the McLean quotes. Bad luck objects, p. 175; Monsignor Russell, p. 179.

  Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1971.

  Patch, Suzanne. Blue Mystery: The Story of the Hope Diamond. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976. An excellent book to read for a full story of the Hope Diamond.

  Rogers, Frances, and Alice Beard. 5,000 Years of Gems and jewelry. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1947.

  Winters, Mary. “The Hope Diamond” (G3551). Printed information of the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 1989.

  Winters, Mary, and John White. “George IV’s Blue Diamond.” Lapidary Journal, December 1991 (part 1), pp. 34-40, and January 1992 (part 2), pp. 48-52.

  EDMOND HALLEY’S ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION NOTEBOOKS

  Asimov, Isaac. Asimov’s Guide to Halley’s Comet. New York: Walker, 1985.

  Branley, Franklyn M. Halley: Comet 1986. New York: Lodestar/Dutton, 1983.

  Flaste, Richard, Holcomb Noble, Walter Sullivan, and John Noble Wilford. The New York Times Guide to the Return of Halley’s Comet. New York: Times Books, 1985.

  Langwell, W. H. The Conservation of Books and Documents. London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1957.

  THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

  Bell, Whitfield J., Jr. The Declaration of Independence, Four Versions: Jefferson’s Manuscript Copy, The First Official Printing by John Dunlap, The First Newspaper Printing, A Unique Printing on Parchment by John Dun-lap. Reprint, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1986.

  Donovan, Frank. Mr. Jefferson’s Declaration: The Story Behind the Declaration of Independence. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968.

  Fitzpatrick, John C. “The Travels of the Declaration of Independence.” Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, vol. 57, no. 7 (July 1923), pp. 389-97.

  Gustafson, Milton O. “The Empty Shrine: The Transfer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to the National Archives.” The American Archivist, vol. 39, no. 3 (July 1976), pp. 271-85.

  Hazelton, John. The Declaration of Independence, Its History. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1906.

  Maeder, Jay. “1776’s Pride Is Worth 2M.” The New York Daily News, June 14, 1991.

  Mearns, David C. “The Declaration of Independence: The Story of a Parchment.” Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1950. Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1949, 36-55. Source of the Richard Rush, Historical Magazine, and James McCabe quotes.

  Meyer, Alfred. “Daily Rise and Fall of the Nation’s Revered Documents,” Smithsonian, vol. 17 (October 1986), 134-36.

  Molotsky, Irving. “Let Us Now Celebrate the Second.” New York Times, July 2,1986.

  Wright, Chapin. “$4 ‘Declaration’ Auctioned for $2.2M.” Newsday, June 14, 1991.

  GEORGE WASHINGTON’S FALSE TEETH

  Bird, Aldine R. “Washington Smiled at Own Risk as False Teeth Stuck.” News, Baltimore, Md., February 15, 1940.

  “A George Washington Relic: A Monstrous Set of False Teeth the First President Used Is in a Museum Here.” Baltimore Sun, July 18, 1954.

  Gustaitis, Joseph. “George Washington’s False Teeth.” American History Illustrated, February 1989.

  “Historic Teeth: Those of George Washington in Baltimore Dental College Museum.” Baltimore Sun, July 10, 1904.

  Hoffmann-Axthelm,
Walter. History of Dentistry. Chicago: Quintessence, 1981.

  “It’s No Lie: George Got Teeth From Hippopotami.” Associated Press article in Providence Journal, March 22, 1980.

  Locke, Robert. “Down in the Mouth: Tale of George Washington’s Wooden Teeth May Have Been Tongue in Cheek.” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 22, 1980.

  “Maryland University to Show George Washington’s False Teeth.” The Washington Post and Times Herald, February 23, 1956.

  McCauley, H. Berton. “George Washington’s Teeth and Dentistry in 18th Century America.” Paper delivered at Fraunces Tavern in New York City on February 6, 1986. (I would like to record Dr. McCauley’s own documentation, which appears at the end of his paper: “The material from which the substance of this presentation is derived may be found in the work of Bernhard Wolf Weinberger, An Introduction to the History of Dentistry in America, 2 vols., C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1948. Also in the publication of Curt Proskauer and Fritz H. Witt: Pictorial History of Dentistry, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, Koln, 1962. Further in The Foundation of Professional Dentistry by J. Ben Robison, Waverly Press, Baltimore, 1940. And more recently in Heritage and History of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1978; and in Dentistry: An Illustrated History by Malvin E. Ring, C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1985.”)

  Rice, Howard C, Jr. Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782 by the Marquis De Chastellux. Vol. 1. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963.

  Schaden, Herman. “Admiral Brushing Up on Washington’s Teeth.” The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1967.

  Sognnaes, Reidar F. “President Washington’s Most Famous Dentures Stolen from the Smithsonian.” Journal of the American Dental Association, February 1983.

  Wienberger, Bernhard Wolf. “George Washington’s Dentures.” Reprint from February 1934 issue of Dental Survey.

  Wienberger, Bernhard Wolf. “Washington’s Missing Dentures: Solving the Mystery.” Journal of the American Dental Association, May 1960.

  Who Was Who in America: Historical Volume 1607-1896, Revised Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who, Incorporated, 1967.

  Additional sources include notes of the First District Dental Society held April 11, 1893, at the New York Academy of Medicine and The Illinois Dental Journal, 1932-1933; numerous letters of George Washington and John Greenwood located at the American Academy of the History of Dentistry, Baltimore; numerous newspaper clippings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from the New York Observer, St. Louis Republic, Virginia Gazette, New York Sun, and other publications.

  THE CRYPT OF JOHN PAUL JONES

  Malone, Dumas, ed. Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 3. New York: Scribner’s, 1935.

  Morison, Samuel Eliot. John Paul Jones: A Sailor’s Biography. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, 1959.

  Stewart, Charles W., compiler. John Paul Jones Commemoration at Annapolis April 24, 1906. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907; reprinted 1966. This book contains General Horace Porter’s detailed account of his search for Jones, on which my account is based. Other material in this book that was of use included John Paul Jones’s report of his engagement on the Bonhomme Richard with the Serapis; General Porter’s description of the battle given in his address on April 30, 1908, at the U.S. Naval Academy; and Captain John Stone’s recollection of seeing Jones’s corpse when he was in Paris in 1905.

  Walsh, John Evangelist. Night on Fire. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.

  HMS VICTORY AND VICE ADMIRAL LORD NELSON’S UNIFORM COAT

  Beatty, William, M.D. Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson. 3rd ed. London: W. Mason, 1825. Source of the Beatty quote in “Vice Admiral Lord Nelson’s Uniform Coat,” pp. 17-19.

  Bennett, Geoffrey. Nelson the Commander. New York: Scribner’s, 1972.

  Hattersley, Roy. Nelson. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1974.

  Hedges, A. A. C. Admiral Lord Nelson. Norwich, England: Jarrould Colour Publications, n.d.

  Howarth, David, and Stephen Howarth. Lord Nelson: The Immortal Memory. New York: Viking, 1988.

  Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. Vol. 7. London: H. Colburn, 1844; reprinted 1845.

  Warner, Oliver. Victory: The Life of Lord Nelson. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, 1958. Source of the Coleridge quote (from S. T. Coleridge, The Friend, essay 6).

  Wilton-Smith, Jane, ed. HMS Victory: Souvenir Guidebook. Andover, England: Pitkin Pictorials, 1988.

  THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

  Filby, P. W., and Edward G. Howard, compilers. Star-Spangled Books. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1972. Source of the advertisement of the first public singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on October 19, 1814, p. 16.

  “Fort McHenry.” Pamphlet. Washington D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1990.

  La Cour, Art. Proudly We Hail: The Story of Our National Anthem. West Orange, N.J.: Economics Press, 1965.

  Lord, Walter. The Dawn’s Early Light. New York: Norton, 1972.

  Sheads, Scott S. The Rockets’ Red Glare: The Maritime Defense of Baltimore in 1814. Centreville, MD.: Tidewater, 1986.

  “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Leaflet. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, n.d.

  NAPOLEON’S PENIS

  Castelot, André. Napoleon. Translated from the French-language edition by Guy Daniels. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.

  “Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and the Celebrated Vignali Collection of Napoleon Relics removed from Saint Helena and Other Items of Napoleonic Interest from Various Sources.” Printed by Christie, Manson & Woods for auction in London on October 29, 1969. My source for the items in the Abbé Vignali collection.

  Cronin, Vincent. Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography. New York: Morrow, 1971.

  A Description of the Vignali Collection of Relics of Napoleon. Philadelphia: Rosenbach, 1924.

  Guérard, Albert. Napoleon I: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Knopf, 1962.

  Korngold, Ralph. The Last Years of Napoleon. His Captivity on St. Helena. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959.

  Ludwig, Emil. Napoleon. N.p., n.d.

  Martineau, Gilbert. Napoleon’s St. Helena. Translated from the French-language edition by Frances Partridge. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1968.

  Saint Denis, Louis Etienne. Napoleon: From the Tuileries to St. Helena. New York: Harper, 1922.

  Wolf, Edwin II, and John F. Fleming. Rosenbach: A Biography. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1960.

  LONDON BRIDGE

  Dussault, Elrose M. “History of the London Bridge and Lake Havasu City.” Leaflet. 1987.

  Elmer, Carlos. London Bridge in Pictures. Kingman, Ariz.: Carlos H. Elmer, 1971, 1983.

  Johnson, Roger A. “New City, Old Bridge.” Booklet. Media Specialist, 1981.

  McGrath, Ron. “London Bridge Spans Time and Space to Awe Millions of Visitors at Lake Havasu.” In Visit Lake Havasu City, Arizona, Lake Havasu Area Chamber of Commerce, 1988.

  Shepherd, C. W. A Thousand Years of London Bridge. New York: Hastings House, 1971.

  JEREMY BENTHAM: A PHILOSOPHER FOR THE AGES

  Bentham, Jeremy. “Auto-Icon; or, farther uses of the dead to the living. A Fragment From the Mss. of Jeremy Bentham. [Not published].”

  Marmoy, C. F. A. “The Auto-Icon of Jeremy Bentham at University College, London.” Reprinted from Medical History, vol. 2, no. 2 (April 1958).

  Richardson, Ruth, and Brian Hurwitz. “Jeremy Bentham’s Self Image: An Exemplary Request for Dissection.” British Medical Journal (July 18, 1987), 195-98, 295.

  THE ONE-CENT MAGENTA

  “1847 Stamps Sold for $3.3M.” Reuters dispatch in Newsday, November 4, 1993.

  Ilma, Viola. Funk and Wagnalls Guide to the World of Stamp Collecting. New York: Crowell, 1978.

  India’s Stamp Journal, September 1970.

  Kernan, Michael. “The $5 Million Stampede
.” Washington Post, April 7, 1980.

  Lidman, David, and John D. Apfelbaum. The World of Stamps and Stamp Collecting. New York: Scribner’s, 1981.

  Williams, M., and L. W. Williams. Rare Stamps. New York: Putnam’s, 1967.

  JOHN BROWN’S BIBLE

  Boyer, Richard O. The Legend of John Brown. New York: Knopf, 1972.

  Chicago Historical Society materials: Letters from B. D. Gibson to F. G. Logan, dated December 21, 1892, and January 10, 1893. Notarized documents executed in the State of West Virginia, County of Jefferson, dated January 5, 1893 (Charles C. Conklyn and George W. Engle, signees; B. D. Gibson, notary public); January 5, 1893 (Lewis M. Blessing, Herbert S. Blessing, Alice V. Blessing, Laura F. Blessing, signees; B. D. Gibson, notary public); January 5, 1893 (Emily Jane Blessing, signee, B. D. Gibson, notary public); January 9, 1893 (G. F. Mason, signee, B. D. Gibson, notary public); January 9, 1893 (Daniel B. Lucas, signee, B. D. Gibson, notary public); notarized document in the District of Columbia, City of Washington, dated January 5, 1893 (John E. Hilbert, signee, George Finckel, notary public).

  Downes, Olin, and Elie Siegmeister. A Treasury of American Song. New York: Knopf, 1943.

  Oates, Stephen B. To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.

  CAPTAIN DANJOU’S WOODEN HAND

  Boca, Geoffrey. La Légion: The French Foreign Legion and the Men Who Made It Glorious. New York: Crowell, 1964.

  “The Foreign Legion.” Brochure. N.d.

  Keating, Susan Katz. “Legion Marches into the Spotlight.” Insight magazine, May 7, 1990.

  Mercer, Charles. Legion of Strangers. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

  Wellard, James. The French Foreign Legion. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

  MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL E. SICKLES’S LEG

  Brandt, Nat. The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991.

  Dowling, Tom. “The Sunday Murder at Lafayette Square—and Afterwards.” The Washington Star, September 15, 1976.

  Maclean, Don. “Shinbone Connected to the Toe-Hold.” The Washington Daily News, June 13, 1956.