Ménage à Trois : David Peck Todd,Mabel Loomis Todd,Austin Dickinson,and the 1882 Transit of Venus

New York Times , 8 December 1882.

Thomas Hardy , Two on a tower (Oxford, 1993), 192.

Polly Longsworth , Austin and Mabel: The Amherst affair and love letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd (Amherst, 1999), 39.

David Todd , “Professor Todd's own story of the Mars Expedition”, The cosmopolitan , January 1908, 343–51.

Richard Baum William Sheehan , In search of planet Vulcan: The ghost in Newton's clockwork universe (New York, 1997).

Longsworth , Austin and Mabel (ref. 3), 44.

Peter Gay , Education of the senses: The bourgeois experience. Victoria to Freud (New York, 1984), 78.

Longsworth , Austin and Mabel (ref. 3), 49 n.

Ibid. , 5.

Ibid. , 64.

6 September 1882, ibid. , 63.

6 December 1882, a.m., ibid. , 137.

6 December 1882, p.m., ibid. , 137.

Helen Wright , James Lick's monument: The saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the building of the Lick Observatory (Cambridge, 1987), 102.

Ibid. , 101.

Sewall Richard B. , preface to Longsworth, Austin and Mabel (ref. 3), p. xiii.

Todd Peck David , “On the observations of the transit of Venus, 1882, December 5–6, made at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California”, Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , xliii (1883), 273–6.

Wright , op. cit. (ref. 14), 101.

Todd Peck David Floyd Richard Captain , 15 March 1883, Mary Lea Shane archives of the Lick Observatory.

Todd Peck David Floyd Richard Captain , 5 April 1883, Mary Lea Shane archives of the Lick Observatory.

Dick Steven J. , The biological universe (Cambridge, 1996), 406–8.

Todd Peck David , “Observations of the transit of Venus, 1882”, Publications of the Lick Observatory , i (1887), 50–54.

Ibid. , 53.

Emily Dickinson , “Before I got my eye put out”, in Oscar Williams (ed.), A pocket book of modern verse (New York, 1959), 80.