In other news, my streak of consecutive days blogging hit 1776 days while I was in Philadelphia this weekend! See here.

P.S.: I also overheard this beautiful ballad for the first time — fittingly enough — somewhere in the City of Brotherly Love, where I have been attending a joint meeting of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS) and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS).