{"id":609,"date":"2017-11-24T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=609"},"modified":"2017-11-24T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:28:39","slug":"footnotes-on-footnotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Footnotes on footnotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=593\">blog post<\/a> I discussed the identification of one of the titles in Macintosh&#8217;s library:\u00a0<em>The history of\u00a0Tom Jones, a foundling<\/em> (1749). Today, in reading through part of Macintosoh&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa<\/em>\u00a0(1782) in preparation for a book chapter I am writing, I found evidence of Macintosh&#8217;s familiarity with the book.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated 5 January 1779, Macintosh details his experience aboard the French ship\u00a0<em>Favori<\/em>, on which he had departed from the island of R\u00e9union (then \u00cele Bourbon) on 10 December 1778:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am now placed in a society not unlike that of the stage-coach in Tom Jones; a jumble of figures, constitutions, complexions, disposition, professions, and sexes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And thus the project progresses, footnote on footnote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog post I discussed the identification of one of the titles in Macintosh&#8217;s library:\u00a0The history of\u00a0Tom Jones, a foundling (1749). Today, in reading through part of Macintosoh&#8217;s\u00a0Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa\u00a0(1782) in preparation for a book chapter I am writing, I found evidence of Macintosh&#8217;s familiarity with the book. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}