{"id":126,"date":"2010-08-30T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jugglingarchives.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2010-08-30T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T12:00:20","slug":"bank-holiday-bonus-iii-a-printers-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/bank-holiday-bonus-iii-a-printers-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Holiday Bonus III – A printer’s warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that not all jugglers can be trusted. In 1972 Robert Wood wrote a book entitled “The Victorian Provincial Printer and the Stage; an essay based on information gleaned from the papers left by John Procter and his son”. It has a section describing the letters that printers sent to each other to warn their colleagues about dodgy characters. Here’s one of them:<\/p>\n

\"Letter<\/a>
From Wood (1972)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Middlesbrough
\nDear Procter,<\/p>\n

A person named Shaw, ‘recreative philosopher’ or ‘Juggler’, left this part six years ago, owing me 21\/-. He is now in the neighbourhood and tells me a ‘cock and bull story’ about giving someone the money to pay me and that this somebody gave him a receipt, purporting to be mine, and he is going to prosecute the individual.<\/p>\n

He promises to pay me this week, whether or no, so you had better look out for some tin should you do him any work.<\/p>\n

Yours truly,<\/p>\n

J. JORDISON<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that not all jugglers can be trusted. In 1972 Robert Wood wrote a book entitled “The Victorian Provincial Printer and the Stage; an essay based on information gleaned from the papers left by John Procter and his son”. It has a section describing the letters that printers sent to each other to warn their colleagues about dodgy characters. Here’s one of them: Middlesbrough Dear Procter, A person named Shaw, ‘recreative philosopher’ or ‘Juggler’, left this part six years ago, owing me 21\/-. He is now in the neighbourhood and tells me a ‘cock and bull story’ about giving Continue reading Bank Holiday Bonus III – A printer’s warning<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1850s","category-west-hartlepool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}