tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post8939226427806973930..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Guest Blog Michelle LovricUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-78337485089950573452009-05-07T09:12:00.000+01:002009-05-07T09:12:00.000+01:00Fantastic, Michelle - I love your story about the ...Fantastic, Michelle - I love your story about the letter. I, too, have worked a lot with plagues (and most especially the 1576-77 plague in Venice). I've never come across the Disinfected Mail group - how amazing! But I do visit lazaretti and can't wait for the vecchio to open (once tried to swim to it from the Lido, but I was scared of the dogs ;-) Your husband is right, though. It is not only smallpox. Anthrax can survive for hundreds of years (the spores lie dormant) and the plague bacillus can likewise be a problem - the public record office in London was closed for months in the 1980s when they found plague bacillus in a MS. I've used plague ridden MSS in the Corer (I have a novel in progress which draws on one there and one in the Marciana). Sorry, we shd take this off ABBA!AnneRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02886295208140507100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-63618480732102192562009-05-05T20:59:00.000+01:002009-05-05T20:59:00.000+01:00A delicious post Michelle... well not exactly deli...A delicious post Michelle... well not exactly delicious... but deliciously told. (And marvellous that there can be such an esoteric society! I first read it as disinfected male) How mysterious to have that letter delivered into your hands... a twist to a plot that's enviable. You're obviously a 'keeper'.Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.com