[C18-L] vampires and the press

[Joel S. Berson]

[Cross-posted from C18-L]

The article in the Boston Weekly Rehearsal (June 5, 1732) was
discovered, and reported here, by me, not by Fred Shapiro.

And as I noted:
>(I'm forced to concede that this must have appeared in the London
>press a couple of months earlier, but since little of the 18th
>century newspaper files is in text-searchable data bases, my find
>may survive for a while.)

So Michael has fulfilled my prophecy, but much sooner than I would
have liked!  :-)  Although only by 16 days -- unless the London
Journal files for January 1732 exist somewhere.

As I reported in my OED submission (but not on the list), the
dateline in the Weekly Rehearsal article is unclear (1721 or the more
likely 1732); but it and the Craftsman article both have January 7.

Joel

At 5/17/2007 11:21 PM, Michael Caldwell wrote:
>Actually, the Craftsman of Saturday, May 20, 1732 reported the word.
>It picked up a story it claimed was reported in the London Journal on
>March 11, which printed an extract of a private letter from Vienna.
>That letter is dated (in the Craftsman's redaction) January 7, 1732.
>That letter is the same one that Fred Shapiro describes, from
>Medreyga, Hungary.
>
>Michael Caldwell
>University of California, San Diego
>
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