{"id":435,"date":"2016-06-28T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=435"},"modified":"2016-06-28T12:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:42:31","slug":"team-macintosh-gets-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Team Macintosh gets to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_436\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160628_121122123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\"size-large wp-image-436\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160628_121122123-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"Ophelia and Lauren engaged in transcription.\" width=\"625\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160628_121122123-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160628_121122123-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160628_121122123-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20160628_121122123-624x375.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ophelia and Lauren engaged in transcription.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The work of <a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=428\">Team Macintosh<\/a> is now officially underway! \u00a0On Monday of this week, Lauren Muir and Ophelia King began their three-week stint as\u00a0Placement Research Assistants in the Department of Geography. Much of the first day was devoted to discussing the <a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Workflow-Guide.pdf\">workflow process<\/a>: Lauren and Ophelia each take a first pass at transcribing an image of manuscript material, before swapping over for a phase\u00a0of verification. The verified\u00a0transcript is then passed to me for final checking and approval.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the challenges of reading eighteenth-century handwriting, Lauren and Ophelia have already made great inroads into the correspondence relating to Macintosh&#8217;s time in India in the late 1770s and early 1780s. One of Macintosh&#8217;s principal correspondents during this time was the Madras civil servant Thomas Lewin (1753\u20131843), whose gossipy, occasionally poetic letters offer much interest and insight.\u00a0The portrait below\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/artsalesindex.artinfo.com\/auctions\/Johann-Heinrich-Hurter-5525353\/Portrait-de-Thomas-Lewin-Esq.-(1753---1843)-1783\">sold at auction in 2014<\/a>) shows Lewin at age 30.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_441\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lewin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-441\" class=\"size-full wp-image-441\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lewin.jpg\" alt=\"Enamel portrait of Thomas Lewin by Johann Heinrich Hurter, 1783. \" width=\"350\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lewin.jpg 350w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lewin-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enamel portrait of Thomas Lewin by Johann Heinrich Hurter, 1783.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work of Team Macintosh is now officially underway! \u00a0On Monday of this week, Lauren Muir and Ophelia King began their three-week stint as\u00a0Placement Research Assistants in the Department of Geography. 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