My dear Foster I have not had any news of the Pendel myograph as yet. I have no doubt you picked the best!! I am off on Wednesday next July 2. Tuesday July 1. is the wife’s birthday & it would be jolly if you could come & dine & have a yarn. Will Mrs Foster be coming up with you? If so, her coming would make it jollier. Formal invitation on the largest sized note paper sent if required. I have ...

The authors have analyzed the content of a selection of letters written by Dom Pedro II, the Emperor of Brazil, and sent to Doctor Charles Brown-Séquard, the famous neurologist, between 1876 and 1885. The content of those letters focuses mainly on his wife's, Princess Thereza Cristina, health issues and Dom Pedro's personal desire to foster the research into the physiological study of the nervo...

Of course I have my growlingest of archangels, why should I expatriate myself to the howling wildnesses around Arthur’s Seat otherwise? But beside the mercenary motives, without which as Père de familia I do nothing – I am really glad to be of use to the University which has been civil to me and by no means sorry to have the opportunity of indoctrinating two or three hundred students with ortho...

Driven by the continuously increasing number of digitized and transcribed historic documents, natural language processing (NLP) and text analysis tasks are now frequently applied to historic texts to extract useful information and thus to enrich this cultural heritage. These tasks face several challenges, such as dealing with spelling variations, lack of orthography, and, oftentimes, missing re...