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How to ask a reference question
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How to ask a reference question

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Abbie Weinberg
“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: February 2023
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: February 2023

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Twill tape, plus toggles, plus toggler, equals quick-ties
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Twill tape, plus toggles, plus toggler, equals quick-ties

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Erin Blake
“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: December 2022
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: December 2022

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An Italian Naturalist in England
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An Italian Naturalist in England

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish
“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: November 2022
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: November 2022

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This month crocodile mystery comes from John Ward’s diary, V.a. 291, volume 8, leaf 18v.   Can you decipher the highlighted text especially the first and last words of the sentence? Leave your attempts in the comments below and we’ll…

“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: October 2022
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: October 2022

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There are many correct aspects to the answer to the question, “What manner of crocodile is this?” The more details you get, the higher your score! So see what you can piece together and we’ll be back next week to…

Frederick William MacMonnies, Shakespeare, circa 1895
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Frederick William MacMonnies, Shakespeare, circa 1895

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Erin Blake

Thanks for the great guesses about the object shown in the September Crocodile Mystery! Dawn Kiilani Hoffmann got it right. The photo shows the bottom of the bronze Shakespeare sculpture at the foot of the stairs from the Reading Room.…

“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: September 2022
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: September 2022

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What manner o’ thing is this? Useless hint: like Antony’s eponymous crocodile, “It is shaped… like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth.” It does not, however, move “with it own organs.” Have a guess? Leave a…

Stealing Signs
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Stealing Signs

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Rachel B. Dankert

Thanks to everyone who shared their guesses on last week’s post and congratulations to those of you who guessed correctly! Sermo mirabilis: or the silent language by Charles de La Fin, London, 1693. Folger call number: L174 The mystery image…

“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: August 2022
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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: August 2022

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In this month’s Crocodile Mystery, the question is simple, but the image and its utility are not. What is the purpose of this picture? Come back next week when all will be revealed!

Caught Inky Handed: Fingerprints of Practitioners
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Caught Inky Handed: Fingerprints of Practitioners

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Thank you for your suggestions regarding these fingerprints. They are, indeed, the marks of two different fingers with different patterns. I tend to think, like Elizabeth, that they are the marks of a middle finger and an index or a…

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