The Personal Revolution of Seymore Wainscott

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Genius and endurance are themes throughout the fictional story of Seymore Wainscott. His personal revolution is the adventure of genius striving to make its way in the world. Set against the background of Colonial America, the amazing story is presented in facsimiles and transcriptions of documents and works of art originating with the characters themselves. Throughout the narrative it is important to keep in mind that Seymore Wainscott is a mouse.
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The Wainscott Collection

A Story of Creative Genius

Installments of this writing project appear in numbers of The Storybook Home Journal™ as installments of The Writer’s Garret. This part of the web site presents a brief overview of the project.

The first installment of this fictional story appears in Vol. 6 No. 1 of The Storybook Home Journal™, and describes the manner in which the manuscripts, drawings, and artifacts constituting The Wainscott Collection "came into the author’s possession".

Seymore Wainscott, born in 1737 at Lanham Hall in Virginia’s Piedmont, is the central character in this fictional story of creative genius; nevertheless, The Wainscott Collection contains numerous materials from Seymore’s contemporaries. For example, Seymore wrote a biography of his father, Bevel Wainscott, and that biography appeared as serialized installments of the Writer’s Garret from Vol. 6 No. 2 of The Storybook Home Journal™ through Vol. 6 No. 6.

Another document in The Wainscott Collection is a diary kept by Seymore’s father-in-law, Leornian Feldham. Typical of the era in which it was published, the diary is entitled The First Voyage, Being A Diary Of Botanical and Horticultural Explorations To South Carolina And The Caribee Islands From the 22nd Day of May 1737 Until the 2nd Day of May 1739 . The first installment of this diary was published in The Storybook Home Journal™ in Vol. 7 No. 1. Other installments of Leornian’s diary are scheduled to appear in The Storybook Home Journal™ throughout 2008.

The story is an intensely personal narrative of family and community, endeavor, genius, and endurance. Except for the annotation accompanying the documents in the collection, the story is told by the characters who lived it and wrote about it. It also reaches back far beyond the characters themselves to the origins of their own families and cultures, and so is set not only in the Old Dominion and the colonies of the New World, but against a backdrop of the lands from whence the families came.

The characters not only wrote, but drew in pen and ink, painted, printed, designed, and engaged in the full range of expression one would expect from an enlightened and active society. Consequently, The Wainscott Collection also includes a rich fund of images.

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A Web Of Connections	New Friends And Broad Horizons	Aboard The Reliant	Taking Leave Of Magnolia
The Shadow Of Scandal	Governors, Guests, And Secrecy	An Invitation From Master Gardener Spurge	Beneath The Charles Town Docks
Aboard The Onslow	To The End Of His Days	The Crisis	Williamsburg Years
Bevel Wainscott And The Courier Mice	The Great Fire	To See To The Heart Of Things	Provenance
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