Dear all
In response to this post on Kew Gardens' Library art and Archive Blog https://www.kew.org/blogs/library-art-and-archives/censors-in-the-archive-redaction-in-joseph-dalton-hookers, (regarding redacted letters amongst Joseph Hooker's correspondence) I have had a request from a writer for the website Atlas Obscura who would like to turn the blog into a larger article.
Cara has asked if there are any other examples of this kind of historic redaction or indeed use of code or other mechanisms that may make records difficult for archivists to interpret. If you would be happy to share such examples from the archives you work in and for them to potentially be used in Cara's article please get in touch with her: [log in to unmask]
Below is the relevant part of Cara's original message:
"It got me wondering about how archivists deal with censored, coded, or indecipherable pages—(I have run into only two other cases, one having to do with risqué penguins, and the other with a teenage Beatrix Potter)—and, pending my editor's approval, I would love to write about it for our website. "
Link to Atlas Obscura: https://www.atlasobscura.com/
best wishes,
Ginny
Virginia Mills
Project Officer, Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project
Library, Art & Archives
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE
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