Authors: Neil McKenna
231 ‘dancing with a gentleman from the City’ –
ibid.
231 ‘During the evening’ –
ibid.
231 ‘Lord Arthur and Boulton’ –
ibid.
232 ‘at once knelt down’ –
ibid.
232 ‘soon brought to light’ –
ibid.
232 ‘How excited I became’ –
ibid.
232 ‘postillioned her bottomhole’ –
ibid.
233 ‘Opening her drawers’ –
ibid.
22 The Wheels of Justice
235 ‘We hope and believe’
– Pall Mall Gazette
, 8 June 1870.
235 ‘I am rather sorry’ – Louis Hurt to Ernest Boulton, 17 April 1870, Letters.
236 ‘I suppose’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 29 May 1870, Trial.
236 ‘My darling Ernie’ – Louis Hurt to Ernest Boulton, 8 April 1870, Letters.
237 ‘Do you advise’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 29 May 1870, Trial.
238 ‘heartily glad’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 18 May 1870, Trial.
238 ‘I was in Court’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 29 May 1870, Trial.
238 ‘My dear John’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, 18 May 1870, Trial.
239 ‘
un ange
’ – John Safford Fiske to Ernest Boulton, 18 April 1870, Letters.
239 ‘I have just seen’ – Louis Hurt to John Safford Fiske, May 1870, Trial.
241 ‘Mr Fiske called’ – Confidential Memorandum No 353: John Lothrop Motley to Hamilton Fisk, Secretary of State, London, 11 June 1870, in ‘Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Great Britain, 1791–1906’, US National Archives and Records Administration.
243 ‘I asked Mr Fiske’ – Trial testimony of Detective Officer Gollan.
244 ‘Mr Fiske – Facts’ – Confidential Memorandum No 357.
23 Dead or Disappeared
246 ‘We have it on the authority’
– Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 26 June 1870.
247 ‘Peers’ –
ibid
.
247 ‘resolution’ –
Pall Mall Gazette
, 8 June 1870.
248 ‘I took up my fare’ –
Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 12 June 1870.
249 ‘We understand’ –
Weekly Times
, 12 June 1870.
249 ‘there are people’ –
Observer
, 26 June 1870.
249 ‘The rumour’ –
Daily Telegraph
, 20 June 1870.
250 ‘We are in a position’ –
Lancet
, 25 June 1870.
250 ‘utter prostration’ –
Evening Standard
, 20 June 1870.
250 ‘bed of sickness’ –
ibid
.
250 ‘Nothing’ –
ibid
.
251 ‘sad and wasted’ –
Daily Telegraph
, 21 June 1870.
251 ‘A MIS-SPENT LIFE’ –
Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 26 June 1870.
251 ‘Lord Arthur’s’ –
Porcupine
, 25 June 1870.
251 ‘Verily’ –
ibid
.
251 ‘The funeral’ –
Weekly Times
, 26 June 1870.
252 ‘He hath borne’ –
Echo
, 24 June 1870.
252 ‘persons’ –
Nottingham Daily Guardian
, 22 June 1870.
252 ‘Is Lord Arthur’ –
Porcupine
, 25 June 1870.
253 ‘It is understood’ –
Daily Telegraph
, 10 May 1871.
256 ‘nothing’ – Mr Ouvry to William Gladstone, 29 June 1870, folio 3011, Glynne Gladstone MSS.
256 ‘It is impossible’ –
ibid
.
24 This Slippery Sod
257 ‘The management’
– Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 29 May 1870.
261 ‘a rather effeminate’ –
Illustrated Police News
, 30 July 1870.
261 ‘I walked’ –
The Times
, 2 April 1870.
261 ‘Oh! pray don’t’ –
ibid
.
262 ‘Come with me’ –
The Times
, 26 July 1870.
262 ‘I am ashamed’ –
ibid
.
264 ‘Dear Stella’ – Harry Park to Stella Boulton, early 1871, Letters.
266 ‘Mr Edward Henry Park?’ –
Illustrated Police News
, 30 July 1870.
267 ‘a tall, stylishly-dressed’ –
ibid
.
267 ‘The bench and court’ –
ibid
.
268 ‘I am here’ –
The Times
, 26 July 1870.
25 ‘Pestiferous and Pestilential’
269 ‘What words can paint’ –
Extraordinary Revelations
.
271 ‘venereal disease’ – ‘Evidence of William Henry Sloggett, 30 January 1871’,
Analysis of the Evidence Given Before the Contagious Diseases Commission
.
271 ‘a grand movement’ –
London Entr’acte
, 23 January 1871.
272 ‘
contra
’
– Sir Edward Coke,
Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
(London, 1797).
272 ‘things fearful’ – William Bradford,
Of Plymouth Plantation
, written between 1620 and 1647, in Jonathan Katz,
Gay American History
(New York, 1978).
273 ‘pestiferous’ – in Richard Davenport-Hines,
Sex, Death and Punishment: Attitudes to Sex and Sexuality in Britain since the Renaissance
(London, 1991).
273 ‘abominations’ – in Alan Bray,
Homosexuality in Renaissance England
(London, 1982).
273 ‘Henceforth, Borastus’ – John Wilmot,
Sodom, or The Quintessence of Debauchery
(Paris, 1957).
273 ‘hugger-mugger’ –
ibid
.
274 ‘The unnatural Lewdness’ – Thomas Sherlock,
A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; on Occasion of the Late Earthquakes
(London, 1750).
275 ‘great hulking ruffians’ – James Greenwood, ‘A Night in the Workhouse’,
Pall Mall Gazette
, 13 January 1866.
275 ‘Facts’ – Charles Dickens,
Hard Times
(London, 1854).
275 ‘classification’ – George Roberts,
An Etymological and Explanatory Dictionary of the Terms and Language of Geology
(London, 1839).
275 ‘peripheral excitement’ – Isaac Baker Brown,
On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females
(London, 1866).
277 ‘Androgynism’ –
Medical Times and Gazette
, 9 February 1868.
277 ‘the slightest doubt’ – Cunnington,
Feminine Attitudes
.
277 ‘unsexed’ –
Pall Mall Gazette
, 29 June 1870.
278 ‘respectable young men’ –
The Times
, 25 September 1857.
278 ‘Smirking’ –
ibid
.
278 ‘unnatural’ – in Michael Mason,
The Making of Victorian Sexuality
(Oxford, 1995).
278 ‘The increase’ – ‘H. Smith’,
Yokel’s Preceptor
c.1850
279 ‘who is known’
– Daily Telegraph
, 31 May 1870.
279 ‘It is certain’ –
Saturday Review
, 20 May 1871.
279 ‘A certain form of iniquity’ –
Daily Telegraph
, 31 May 1870.
279 ‘a doubtful fellowship’ –
Daily Telegraph
, 31 May 1870.
279 ‘clique’ –
Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 5 June 1870.
279 ‘Vice’ –
Daily Telegraph
, 31 May 1870.
279 ‘There is no saying how far things might go’ –
The Times
, 31 May 1870.
279 ‘This London of ours’ –
Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 5 June 1870.
280 ‘organisation and concert’ –
The Pall Mall Gazette
, 8 June 1870.
26 The Ship of State
282 ‘Herald, read the accusation!’ – Lewis Carroll,
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
(1865).
282 ‘To judge’ –
Daily Telegraph
, 10 May 1871.
283 ‘the public’ –
Porcupine
, 9 July 1870.
283 ‘It is thought’ –
Penny Illustrated
, 11 December 1870.
284 ‘a bouquet’ –
Illustrated Police News
, 13 May 1871.
284 ‘tastily’ –
Daily Telegraph
, 10 May 1871.
284 ‘scarcely altered’ –
ibid
.
285 ‘campish’ – Frederick Park to Lord Arthur Clinton, 21 November 1868, Letters.
286 ‘a spider’s web’ – in John Juxon,
Lewis and Lewis: The Life and Times of a Victorian Solicitor
(London, 1983).
286 ‘conspiracy to solicit’ – 9 May 1871, DPP 4/6, The National Archives.
288 ‘unlawfully’ –
ibid
.
288 ‘openly and publicly’ –
ibid
.
291 ‘This is a prosecution’ – Opening speech of the Attorney-General, Trial.
291 ‘his bounden duty’ –
ibid
.
293 ‘Perhaps I am not going’ –
ibid
.
293 ‘But’ –
ibid
.
27 The Most Sensational Event
295 ‘By sometimes dressing’ – Opening speech of the Attorney-General, Trial.
296 ‘irregular affections’ – Solomon to Swinburne, 1862, in Jean Overton Fuller,
Swinburne: A Critical Biography
(London, 1968).
296 ‘Dolomite’ – Solomon to Swinburne, 10 May 1871, in John Y. LeBourgeois, ‘Swinburne and Simeon Solomon’,
Notes and Queries
, March 1973.
296 ‘Boulton is very remarkable’ – Solomon to Swinburne, 15 May 1871, in LeBourgeois, ‘Swinburne and Simeon Solomon’.
296 ‘a very revolting’ –
Illustrated Police News
, 4 June 1870.
297 ‘Dear Stella’ – Harry Park to Stella Boulton, Letters.
298 ‘Dearest Stella’ – Willy Somerville to Stella Boulton, Letters.
300 ‘My cawfish’ – Opening speech of Sir John Karslake, Trial.
300 ‘It is cawfish’ –
ibid
.
301 ‘Whatever it may mean’ –
ibid
.
301 ‘painting their faces’ – Opening speech of the Attorney-General, Trial.
302 ‘If every
roué
’ –
Extraordinary Revelations
.
303 ‘crush and spoil’ – Opening speech of Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
303 ‘thoroughly’ – Trial testimony of William Kay.
304 ‘A thrill’ –
Daily Telegraph
, 13 May 1871.