by Neil McKenna
162 ‘We were very drunk’ – Ernest Boulton to Lord Arthur Clinton, late 1868, letters read in evidence, Trial.
162 ‘tired and seedy’ – ibid.
162 ‘How can you’ – ibid.
162 ‘I must of course trust’ – ibid.
162 ‘Now no promises’ – ibid.
162 ‘A game pie’ – ibid.
162 ‘If you have any coin’ – ibid.
162 ‘Send me some money’ – Ernest Boulton to Lord Arthur Clinton, 4 December 1868, Letters.
162 ‘I wanted the money’ – Ernest Boulton to Lord Arthur Clinton, late 1868, letters read in evidence, Trial.
162 ‘I shall leave here’ – ibid.
162 ‘Why cannot you’ – ibid.
162 ‘It is now five o’clock’ – ibid.
162 ‘When you write’ – ibid.
162 ‘I have waited’ – ibid.
162 ‘I do not like’ – ibid.
163 ‘I am quite tired’ – ibid.
163 ‘We cannot go on’ – ibid.
163 ‘I am most annoyed’ – ibid.
163 ‘I am consoling’ – ibid.
163 ‘And now, dear’ – ibid.
163 ‘My Dearest Arthur’ – Frederick Park to Lord Arthur Clinton, 22 November 1868, Letters.
164 ‘How very kind’ – Frederick Park to Lord Arthur Clinton, 21 November 1868, Letters.
165 ‘Is the handle’ – Frederick Park to Lord Arthur Clinton, late 1868, Letters.
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167 ‘Ann Empson’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 5 June 1870.
169 ‘Are you married?’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 5 June 1870.
170 ‘Have you been drinking’ – The Times, 30 May 1870.
171 ‘a mutton chop’ – Deposition of Ann Empson.
171 ‘I was surprised’ – ibid.
171 ‘I saw Lord Arthur’ – Deposition of Ann Empson/The Times, 30 May 1870.
171 ‘I complained’ – Deposition of Ann Empson.
172 ‘as an abuse’ – ibid.
172 ‘I said to them’ – ibid.
173 ‘lady’s wearing apparel’ – Trial Testimony of Ann Empson.
173 ‘The prisoner nearest’ – ibid.
17 ‘Come Love’
175 ‘Love is a pretty pedlar’ – Robert Jones, ‘The Muses Gardin for Delights’, 1610.
175 ‘Mr Ernest Boulton’ – John Safford Fiske to Ernest Boulton, March/April 1870, Letters.
176 ‘having indecently’ – Illustrated Police News, 16 July 1870.
177 ‘arse-quim’ – Letters from Laura and Eveline.
180 ‘playing weekday tunes’ – Trial testimony of Agnes Dickson
180 ‘Nothing like him’ – Trial testimony of John Doig.
180 ‘by drinking’ – John Jameson Jim to Ernest Boulton, February or March 1870, Letters.
181 ‘Have you the same love’ – John Jameson Jim to Ernest Boulton, 8 April 1870, Letters.
181 ‘Will you stay’ – ‘Jack’, to Ernest Boulton, 4 April 1870, Letters.
182 ‘of unblemished character’ – Joseph Mullin to William H. Seward, 26 August 1867, ‘Letters of Application and Recommendation During the Administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson, 1861 to 1869’, Microfilm M650, US National Archives and Records Administration.
184 ‘After we were married’ – John Safford Fiske to Ernest Boulton, 20 April 1870, Letters.
184 ‘adventures’ – John Safford Fiske to Ernest Boulton, 18 April 1870, Letters.
185 ‘his smiling face’ – ibid.
185 ‘Laïs and Antinous’ – ibid.
185 ‘ravishing’ – ibid.
185 ‘Come love’ – John Safford Fiske to Ernest Boulton, March/April 1870, Letters.
18 Un Souvenir d’Amour
187 ‘All Cracks are so full of Ails’ – John Dunton, The He-Strumpets: A Satyr on the Sodomite Club, 1707, in Rictor Norton, Mother Clap’s Molly House (London, 2006).
188 ‘In France’ – William Allingham, Fistula, Haemorrhoids, Painful Ulcers, Stricture, Prolapsus, and Other Painful Diseases of the Rectum (London, 1871).
188 ‘immense prevalence’ – William Acton, A Complete Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Urinary and Generative Organs, (London, 1860).
189 ‘running down’ – ibid.
189 ‘frequently to be seen’ – George Drysdale, The Elements of Social Science; or, Physical, Sexual and Natural Religion (London, 1867).
190 ‘infected’ – attributed to Lord Byron, ‘Don Leon’, c.1830.
190 ‘abomination’ – Extraordinary Revelations.
190 ‘G—’ – Philippe Ricord, Illustrations of Syphilitic Disease, translated by T. F. Belton (Philadelphia, 1851).
190 ‘sodomy’ – Drysdale, Elements.
191 ‘I saw one case’ – Trial testimony of Dr Henry James Johnson.
192 ‘principally dowagers’ – Deposition of Amos Westropp Gibbings.
193 ‘shabby plaid trousers’ – Deposition of Dr Richard Barwell.
193 ‘He was walking’ – Trial testimony of George Layton.
194 ‘He confessed’ – Trial testimony of Dr Richard Barwell.
195 ‘a gonorrhoeal discharge’ – ibid.
195 ‘rather common clothing’ – ibid.
196 ‘I examined him’ – ibid.
197 ‘insisted’ – Lancet, 28 May 1870.
197 ‘And so’ – Lancet, 28 May 1870.
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198 ‘An Awkward Question’ – The Pearl, 1880.
199 ‘in close prison’ – Opening address by Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
199 ‘We are of the opinion’ – Report From the Departmental Committee on Prisons, Prisons Committee (London, 1895).
200 ‘eminent medical gentlemen’ – Daily Telegraph, 15 May 1871.
200 ‘by the direction’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 19 June 1870.
202 ‘vaginal spasms’ – Evidence of Dr David McLoughlin to the Skey Committee on Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Disease, 6 December 1864.
205 ‘a feeling’ – Lancet, 25 June 1870.
205 ‘The two things’ – D— S— , Eighteen Months’ Imprisonment (London, 1883).
206 ‘dignified courtesy’ – Obituary notice of Dr Frederick Le Gros Clark, British Medical Journal, 6 August 1892.
207 ‘characteristic signs’ –Tardieu, Étude médico-légale.
207 ‘noticed by all present’ – Taylor, Medical Jurisprudence (1873 edition).
208 ‘Beware’ – Tardieu, Étude médico-légale.
208 ‘a small varix’ – Trial testimony of Dr Johnson.
209 ‘It may be relied upon’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 19 June 1870.
20 He, She or It
210 ‘There is not the slightest doubt’ – The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, 1871.
211 ‘the smallness of the anus’ – Trial Testimony of Dr Johnson.
212 ‘the Hermaphrodite Clique’ – Reynolds's Newspaper, 5 June 1870.
212 ‘the Hermaphrodite Gang’ – Reynolds's Newspaper, 12 June 1870.
212 ‘By special request’ – Extraordinary Revelations.
212 ‘During the piece’ – Essex Herald, 2 January 1869, in Daily Telegraph, 9 May 1870.
213 ‘Listening’ – anonymous newspaper report in Extraordinary Revelations.
213 ‘We agreed’ – Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1871.
213 ‘We may add’ – Extraordinary Revelations.
214 ‘On one evening’ – Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1871.
214 ‘My darling Ernie’ – Louis Hurt to Ernest Boulton, 4 April 1870, read in evidence, Trial.
215 ‘rustics’ – Louis Hurt to Lord Arthur Clinton, 9 October 1868, read in evidence, Trial.
215 ‘I really thought’ – Daily Telegraph, 21 May 1870.
216 ‘I pretended to resist’ – Saul, Sins of the Cities.
217 ‘I resigned’ – Daily Telegraph, 21 May 1870.
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8 ‘It was from the manner’ – Deposition of Francis Kegan Cox.
218 ‘Oh you City birds’ – Daily Telegraph, 21 May 1870.
219 ‘I treated Boulton’ – ibid.
220 ‘I afterwards heard’ – ibid.
222 ‘a letter from Captain Cox’ – ‘657 – December 1870’, Treasury Solicitor’s Account Books, TS 40 14, The National Archives.
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223 ‘a bitches’ ball’ – Statement of Malcolm Johnston, Dublin Commission Court.
225 ‘the slang term “drag”’ – Deposition of Amos Westropp Gibbings.
226 ‘chanced to see’ – Arthur Munby’s diary entry for 13 April 1864, in Derek Hudson, Munby: Man of Two Worlds (London, 1974).
227 ‘dressed in the pastoral garb’ – The Times, 1 August 1854.
227 ‘a hundred persons’ – ibid.
227 ‘a sort of dance’ – Illustrated Police News, 2 October 1880, in H. G. Cocks, Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the Nineteenth Century (London, 2003).
228 ‘Sister’ – ibid.
228 ‘They changed partners’ – Deposition of Edward Nelson Haxell.
229 ‘the best amateur actress’ – ibid.
229 ‘I heard Boulton sing’ – ibid.
230 ‘There seems to be’ – Jack Saul, Sins of the Cities.
230 ‘No doubt the proprietor’ – ibid.
231 ‘I sat for a while’ – ibid.
231 ‘dancing with a gentleman from the City’ – ibid.
231 ‘During the evening’ – ibid.
231 ‘Lord Arthur and Boulton’ – ibid.
232 ‘at once knelt down’ – ibid.
232 ‘soon brought to light’ – ibid.
232 ‘How excited I became’ – ibid.
232 ‘postillioned her bottomhole’ – ibid.
233 ‘Opening her drawers’ – ibid.
22 The Wheels of Justice
235 ‘We hope and believe’ – Pall Mall Gazette, 8 June 1870.
235 ‘I am rather sorry’ – Louis Hurt to Ernest Boulton, 17 April 1870, Letters.
236 ‘I suppose’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 29 May 1870, Trial.
236 ‘My darling Ernie’ – Louis Hurt to Ernest Boulton, 8 April 1870, Letters.
237 ‘Do you advise’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 29 May 1870, Trial.
238 ‘heartily glad’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 18 May 1870, Trial.
238 ‘I was in Court’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 29 May 1870, Trial.
238 ‘My dear John’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 18 May 1870, Trial.
239 ‘un ange’ – John Safford Fiske to Ernest Boulton, 18 April 1870, Letters.
239 ‘I have just seen’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, May 1870, Trial.
241 ‘Mr Fiske called’ – Confidential Memorandum No 353: John Lothrop Motley to Hamilton Fisk, Secretary of State, London, 11 June 1870, in ‘Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Great Britain, 1791–1906’, US National Archives and Records Administration.
243 ‘I asked Mr Fiske’ – Trial testimony of Detective Officer Gollan.
244 ‘Mr Fiske – Facts’ – Confidential Memorandum No 357.
23 Dead or Disappeared
246 ‘We have it on the authority’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 26 June 1870.
247 ‘Peers’ – ibid.
247 ‘resolution’ – Pall Mall Gazette, 8 June 1870.
248 ‘I took up my fare’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 12 June 1870.
249 ‘We understand’ – Weekly Times, 12 June 1870.
249 ‘there are people’ – Observer, 26 June 1870.
249 ‘The rumour’ – Daily Telegraph, 20 June 1870.
250 ‘We are in a position’ – Lancet, 25 June 1870.
250 ‘utter prostration’ – Evening Standard, 20 June 1870.
250 ‘bed of sickness’ – ibid.
250 ‘Nothing’ – ibid.
251 ‘sad and wasted’ – Daily Telegraph, 21 June 1870.
251 ‘A MIS-SPENT LIFE’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 26 June 1870.
251 ‘Lord Arthur’s’ – Porcupine, 25 June 1870.
251 ‘Verily’ – ibid.
251 ‘The funeral’ – Weekly Times, 26 June 1870.
252 ‘He hath borne’ – Echo, 24 June 1870.
252 ‘persons’ – Nottingham Daily Guardian, 22 June 1870.
252 ‘Is Lord Arthur’ – Porcupine, 25 June 1870.
253 ‘It is understood’ – Daily Telegraph, 10 May 1871.
256 ‘nothing’ – Mr Ouvry to William Gladstone, 29 June 1870, folio 3011, Glynne Gladstone MSS.
256 ‘It is impossible’ – ibid.
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257 ‘The management’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 29 May 1870.
261 ‘a rather effeminate’ – Illustrated Police News, 30 July 1870.
261 ‘I walked’ – The Times, 2 April 1870.
261 ‘Oh! pray don’t’ – ibid.
262 ‘Come with me’ – The Times, 26 July 1870.
262 ‘I am ashamed’ – ibid.
264 ‘Dear Stella’ – Harry Park to Stella Boulton, early 1871, Letters.
266 ‘Mr Edward Henry Park?’ – Illustrated Police News, 30 July 1870.
267 ‘a tall, stylishly-dressed’ – ibid.
267 ‘The bench and court’ – ibid.
268 ‘I am here’ – The Times, 26 July 1870.
25 ‘Pestiferous and Pestilential’
269 ‘What words can paint’ – Extraordinary Revelations.
271 ‘venereal disease’ – ‘Evidence of William Henry Sloggett, 30 January 1871’, Analysis of the Evidence Given Before the Contagious Diseases Commission.
271 ‘a grand movement’ – London Entr’acte, 23 January 1871.
272 ‘contra’ – Sir Edward Coke, Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (London, 1797).
272 ‘things fearful’ – William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, written between 1620 and 1647, in Jonathan Katz, Gay American History (New York, 1978).
273 ‘pestiferous’ – in Richard Davenport-Hines, Sex, Death and Punishment: Attitudes to Sex and Sexuality in Britain since the Renaissance (London, 1991).
273 ‘abominations’ – in Alan Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England (London, 1982).
273 ‘Henceforth, Borastus’ – John Wilmot, Sodom, or The Quintessence of Debauchery (Paris, 1957).
273 ‘hugger-mugger’ – ibid.
274 ‘The unnatural Lewdness’ – Thomas Sherlock, A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; on Occasion of the Late Earthquakes (London, 1750).
275 ‘great hulking ruffians’ – James Greenwood, ‘A Night in the Workhouse’, Pall Mall Gazette, 13 January 1866.
275 ‘Facts’ – Charles Dickens, Hard Times (London, 1854).
275 ‘classification’ – George Roberts, An Etymological and Explanatory Dictionary of the Terms and Language of Geology (London, 1839).
275 ‘peripheral excitement’ – Isaac Baker Brown, On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females (London, 1866).
277 ‘Androgynism’ – Medical Times and Gazette, 9 February 1868.
277 ‘the slightest doubt’ – Cunnington, Feminine Attitudes.
277 ‘unsexed’ – Pall Mall Gazette, 29 June 1870.
278 ‘respectable young men’ – The Times, 25 September 1857.
278 ‘Smirking’ – ibid.
278 ‘unnatural’ – in Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality (Oxford, 1995).
278 ‘The increase’ – ‘H. Smith’, Yokel’s Preceptor c.1850
279 ‘who is known’ – Daily Telegraph, 31 May 1870.
279 ‘It is certain’ – Saturday Review, 20 May 1871.
279 ‘A certain form of iniquity’ – Daily Telegraph, 31 May 1870.
279 ‘a doubtful fellowship’ – Daily Telegraph, 3
1 May 1870.
279 ‘clique’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 5 June 1870.
279 ‘Vice’ – Daily Telegraph, 31 May 1870.
279 ‘There is no saying how far things might go’ – The Times, 31 May 1870.
279 ‘This London of ours’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 5 June 1870.
280 ‘organisation and concert’ – The Pall Mall Gazette, 8 June 1870.
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282 ‘Herald, read the accusation!’ – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
282 ‘To judge’ – Daily Telegraph, 10 May 1871.
283 ‘the public’ – Porcupine, 9 July 1870.
283 ‘It is thought’ – Penny Illustrated, 11 December 1870.
284 ‘a bouquet’ – Illustrated Police News, 13 May 1871.
284 ‘tastily’ – Daily Telegraph, 10 May 1871.
284 ‘scarcely altered’ – ibid.
285 ‘campish’ – Frederick Park to Lord Arthur Clinton, 21 November 1868, Letters.
286 ‘a spider’s web’ – in John Juxon, Lewis and Lewis: The Life and Times of a Victorian Solicitor (London, 1983).
286 ‘conspiracy to solicit’ – 9 May 1871, DPP 4/6, The National Archives.
288 ‘unlawfully’ – ibid.
288 ‘openly and publicly’ – ibid.
291 ‘This is a prosecution’ – Opening speech of the Attorney-General, Trial.
291 ‘his bounden duty’ – ibid.
293 ‘Perhaps I am not going’ – ibid.
293 ‘But’ – ibid.
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295 ‘By sometimes dressing’ – Opening speech of the Attorney-General, Trial.
296 ‘irregular affections’ – Solomon to Swinburne, 1862, in Jean Overton Fuller, Swinburne: A Critical Biography (London, 1968).
296 ‘Dolomite’ – Solomon to Swinburne, 10 May 1871, in John Y. LeBourgeois, ‘Swinburne and Simeon Solomon’, Notes and Queries, March 1973.
296 ‘Boulton is very remarkable’ – Solomon to Swinburne, 15 May 1871, in LeBourgeois, ‘Swinburne and Simeon Solomon’.
296 ‘a very revolting’ – Illustrated Police News, 4 June 1870.
297 ‘Dear Stella’ – Harry Park to Stella Boulton, Letters.
298 ‘Dearest Stella’ – Willy Somerville to Stella Boulton, Letters.
300 ‘My cawfish’ – Opening speech of Sir John Karslake, Trial.
300 ‘It is cawfish’ – ibid.
301 ‘Whatever it may mean’ – ibid.
301 ‘painting their faces’ – Opening speech of the Attorney-General, Trial.