Hi Jed, I've been away and sorry it has taken me so long to reply....Yes I would be happy for you to use a picture of Don. If you send me your email (I'm going to look you up at YouTube, I'll send you a high quality copy to reproduce. Best Wishes Henry

Hi Chrissy ~ I think it is because they accept life and bathe in it. Love Henry

Hi Liara ~ Liz was very impressed. She asked me to read it to her twice...There's nothing more to add."Everything happens now (which was/is also then. You are the answer. This is always the case." xh

Hi Angie ~ I knew that Emma was 90 when I took the shots, so I worked out that she was born in 1837...then I found out that it was the year Queen Victoria acceded to the throne and then I Googled it and came up with the following: Jan 22nd - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands Jan 26th - Michigan admitted as 26th US state Feb 8th - 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin) Feb 11th - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston Feb 13th - Riot in NY over high price of flour Feb 25th - 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport Mar 3rd - Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9 Mar 3rd - US president Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas Mar 4th - City of Chicago incorporates Mar 4th - Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president Mar 4th - Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American Mar 4th - Chicago becomes incorporated as a city. Mar 24th - Canada gives blacks the right to vote Mar 28th - Felix Mendelssohn marries Cécile Jeanrenaud Apr 19th - Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth May 3rd - The University of Athens is founded. May 9th - "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies May 10th - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels. May 17th - Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly) May 25th - The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom. May 31st - Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria Jun 11th - The Broad Street Riot occurres in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans. Jun 13th - 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio Jun 17th - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent Jun 18th - Spain gets new Constitution Jun 20th - England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria Jun 20th - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 Jul 4th - Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool. Jul 13th - Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace Jul 25th - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. Jul 27th - US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC Aug 5th - 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY Aug 28th - Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce Sep 6th - Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men) Sep 21st - Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores Oct 1st - "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico) Oct 1st - Treaty with Winnebago Indians Oct 9th - Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100 Oct 9th - Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute. Oct 31st - Collision of river boat Monmouth & Trement on Miss; 300 die Nov 7th - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time. Nov 8th - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women Nov 15th - Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system Nov 19th - Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens Nov 21st - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times Dec 5th - Hector Berlioz' "Requiem," premieres Dec 5th - Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada Dec 25th - Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians Dec 29th - Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo Dec 29th - Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine Elementary my dear Watson Sherlock

Hi Tami ~ Have you visited Marty 'Aphorisms' He has a blog readership that makes my eyes water. xhenry

Hi Marty ~ I found these rules Victorian Servants had to follow. It makes interesting, if forbidding reading...there's lots more information if you google 'rules Victorian Servants'...and yet, within the restriction, there could be gained a freedom. It's strange but true..and thanks for your comment: 1. When you're spoken to, keep your hands still and always look at the person addressing you. 2. Never let your voice be heard by the ladies and gentlemen of the household, unless they have asked you a question. Even then, always speak as little as possible. 4. Never talk to a lady or a gentleman, unless to deliver a message or to ask a necessary question. 7. Never offer your opinion to your employer. 8. If you meet a higher-ranking servant in the house or on the stairs, you are to make yourself invisible as possible. Turn yourself towards the wall and look away. 9. Never say "good morning" or "good night" to your employer, except in reply to a greeting. 10. If you are required to walk with a lady or gentleman, always keep a few steps behind. I think I could have coped with most of the 'rules', but rule 8 would have really tested me xhenry

Hi Tami ~ So happy you called in again...Liz was touched that you and the others had showed such interest in Miss Brown...Liz visited her in hospital just before she passed away. Emma really was attached to Liz...and to me I guess. She was a bit of a chaperone/fairy godmother to us both. We miss her. (and she always looked like she does in the photographs) Happy love Henry

Hi Nick ~ Thanks for your visit and comment. Miss Brown was the maiden aunt of Liz's landlady in the 60's. She never wasted anything and a pan of stew, in which she threw everying was always bubbling away on the stove. She was one of the happiest and contented people Liz and I have ever met. xhenry

Hi Tami and thanks for your comment. I agree with you...today young people (I sound older than God) squander opportunities because so many of them have not found a path with a heart...or the discipline to make something out of a situation, and so they discard it and continue looking around for something they cannot identify. Maybe 'choice' requires a maturity that is lacking. It is perhaps easier to take the one path available, no matter how rocky or uphill, then muscles will be strengthened, than to also have the choice of freewheeling along a downhill gradient...and that's why so many go downhill...and never see the view from the mountain top. Oh dear, I've waxed a bit poetic here...I sound like an old Vicar delivering a sermon :) xhenry

Yes BK ~ I was blinded by the sun, but I can see that clearly now. xh

Hi Janet ~ I do it because it allows me to go back to that time and place and live it again xhenry (I'd love to go back there again...really...and live it all again)

I can see that in your photographs, which are stunning. xhenry ps: I can remember her tinkling little giggle as the plaster of paris set :) It just seems like yesterday, and I remember walking along the Embankment before I went into the artist's studio

I remember it like it was yesterday Lilly and the photo helps. xhenry

Hi Liara ~ My old photographs provide me with a doorway to my past, where I can visit myself and my loved ones. When I return, I can feel the echo of my visit and the changes that I made. xhenry

Hi Marty ~ Yes it's good to have a bit of free time, which I'm using to do my Income Tax. It's due in tomorrow and I swear they'll lock me up and throw away the key if I don't submit it (I'm very behind with it all) I can believe what you say about aphorisms...I get really stunned at the thought behind each one you publish....a thought..why aphorisms only? I'd love to read a story from you..I guess it would be quite an experience. I look forward to your next set xhenry

Hi Bird ~ I'm just a stubborn old codger xhenry

Yes it is wonderful... xh

Good to see you Bird...and your 'un-birthday' wishes will be relayed :) As I'm writing this, the sunlight is streaming through my window. xhenry

Hi Robin ~ Thanks, I'll pass your birthday wishes on to Liz...I can't help but agree with your comments about her :) xhenry

Thanks Lilly ~ Although I think 'wonderful writing' goes a bit far. I'm up to my eyes at the moment, doing my Income Tax (Aaaarrrrgh!) I'm sure they have padded rooms down at the Inland Revenue, where they can't hear you scream. :( xhenry

Thanks nothingprofound - I've had this image for a while and I never thought of publishing it before. I'm glad I did. Thanks for the birthday wishes for Liz xh

Thanks Eric...and I's really good to see you. I'll give your best wishes to Liz when I see her at the end of the week. xh