Talk:Henry Tracey Coxwell

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1862 balloon riot

The BBC published a short article on Henry Coxwell's unfortuante experience at the hands of a mob in Leicester in 1862 here: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28674654. -84user (talk) 00:56, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Was the balloon really called the Mammoth?

I can't find a primary source for the name of the balloon Cox built that was used on 5 Sept 1862 as the "Mammoth." I have a hunch this is wrong. An article from the Huff Post website makes this claim back in 2013: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-book-balloon_b_4174834

But the name of the balloon is not mentioned in Glashier's book "Travels in the Air," which I find suspicious. Nysus (talk) 18:54, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OK, found this in the paper I mentioned:

CoxwellquotedinhisLife(cit.n. 1),Vol.II,p.99.TheMammothisdiscussedonp.94.Their correspondencein 1862 is at the RoyalAstronomicalSociety Library;see, for example,the letters from Coxwell to Glaisher,9 April and 6 June 1862, in RAS MSS Glaisher2. Theircorrespondencecontinuedthroughouthe ascents;Coxwell, a rivalof Green,once warnedGlaisheragainst"enemies"whoclaimedthatCriswickandGreenwouldteamupand"surpassthatfoulCoxwellandGlaisher" aftertheirhigh ascent.Coxwell to Glaisher,27 July 1862, RAS MSS Glaisher2. Nysus (talk) 19:05, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a good source, but all the spaces between words are missing for some reason. JezGrove (talk) 19:44, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OK, here is a more reputable source, at least: https://web.archive.org/web/20180721203749id_/https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1025&context=div2facpubs — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nysus (talk • contribs) 19:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]