The new edition of Bond Hill: Origin and Transformation…<\/i> contains a few new findings. Robert Wimberg corrected an error of mine, where I had confused the Old Mens and Womens Home (aka the Old Folks Home) with the Altenheim (aka the German Old Mens Home). I really appreciate it when readers take the time to critique this work and help reconstruct this history with me. Dr. Kinji Tanaka of the Lafcadio Hearn Society brought to my attention some new archival material he uncovered from the Iowa State University archives where the papers of Hearn biographer, Dorothea McClelland are kept. I learned that Watkin emigrated to America in 1848 (not 1845 as suggested in a letter from Watkin’s niece). This would have put Watkin in London at the same time as Henry L. Fry, Watkin’s father-in-law. (I hypothesize that they may have met each other in radical circles in England, before Watkin married Fry’s daughter, Laura Ann, in Cincinnati in 1853.) I also learned the name of the Scottish printer who helped bring Hearn into Watkin’s print shop and bookstore in 1869: J.M. McDermott. These and other updates are included in the latest edition (no. 10. I update the edition number whenever I’ve done a printing and made a change, even if I’ve only printed one or two copies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"