Recollections of a Full Life by Mrs. William Howard Taft

“My husband had written me that Philippine horses and Philippine cockroaches were just about the same size.” page 94

My favorite among the maps I found at the Map Division, New York Public Library, May 2014

Made by the US War Department, 1898. Click on it to see entire map.

Now I know where this title came from.

Ten Months Captive among Filipinos

Research for The Unintended, a novel in progress about the Philippine American War

A lovely and astonishing book about Filipinos in Malolos, Bulacan, during the time of war with the Americans in 1899—from the recollections of an American prisoner, who’s actually quite an amusing writer

We landed in February, 1899, and Tondo was burning.

One more stunning line in Affairs in the Philippine Islands 1902.

click on the above to get to the page in Affairs in the Philippine Islands

Another look: photo for The Unintended

Haunting.

“Sacrifice to Aguinaldo’s ambition”: caption on 1899 stereo card

I bought this stereo card by bidding on it. It went quite high—up to forty-five bucks—but look at it. It is haunting.

The chief with Company C

Valeriano Abanador, hero of Balangiga, in August 1901 with American soldiers of Company C. In September he masterminded the plan to kill them.

Jacob “Howling Wilderness” Smith at Balangiga

Jacob Smith inspecting Balangiga, 1901

Tarsiers, the only ultrasonic primates

Here’s the story.