an old book

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I sent it to the Thoresby Society.They were glad to have it

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The subject gets even more interesting than this.  A year ago I attended a Thoresby Society meeting as the guest of Professor Peter Meredith their libarian. Six months before I donated an archive of letters from Lucy Thursby to a Rev TD Whittaker. The part I did not know was that TD Whittaker wrote the other part of the history. The book Thursby wrote has 2 parts.  I donated the diary/journal to them then.  It gets even better now     Because the journal mentions a cousin  Joseph Green and is of course in part about Lisbon earthquake in 1755, Peter Meredith has been able to identify the author as being Ralph Thoresby's son. That is because the society has a letter in archive  to Thoresby's son, from Joseph Green enquiring about his trip to Portugal.  Lucy did of course marry TDW and my letters were a subject of PM's evening society meeting in Feb 2008.  PM hopes that the letters will be published as a society book in due course.  I am of course descended from TDW and LT as well.  Amazing. I have given them two items, (the letters count as one) of historical importance to Leeds