Breakfast Links: Week of February 20, 2017

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
•  Library hand,  the fastidiously neat penmanship style made for library card catalogues.
• And so to bed: 18thc  night attire .
• Born in 1790, President  John Tyler  still has two grandsons alive today.
• "I always made an awkward bow": the final letter of poet  John Keats .
• The  ghost ships  of San Francisco: dozens of wrecked ships lie beneath the city streets.
• Image: Anne Boleyn handed this miniature  book of psalms , which contains a portrait of Henry VIII, to one of her maids of honor on the scaffold in 1536.
• Caught out, or why  expense fiddling  is not a modern phenomenon.
•  Pennygown : the ruined chapel and medieval effigies of a Hebridean burial ground.
• Help transcribe Word War One  love letters.
• Image: Photo of sixteen-year-old future author  Agatha Christie  on a visit to Paris in 1906.
• Discovering  Citoyen Coiffier , an 18thc artists' supplier in Paris.
• What about the fathers?  Men and childbirth  in 19thc Ulster.
• Walt Whitman's brain, Napoleon's penis, and other famous  body parts  plundered from the grave.
• Those glorious  wedding gowns  of the 1980s, often inspired by Princess Diana.
• Who were " the servants "? Piecing together the lives of two 18thc enslaved men owned by the Schuyler family of Albany, NY.
• Image: The absolutely essential  Oxford comma .
• This little street in Manhattan holds a story of  two murders  - and money.
• Mystery over 14thc male  Black Death victims  found buried together hand in hand.
•  Nylon , the fiber that changed America, turns eighty.
• The lowdown on  pantaloons : what Regency men wore on their legs.
• An abandoned  hobbit castle  built for sheep?
• Image: Just for fun: Best.  Footnote . Ever.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection