#alfredwaud

((Look, I'm really not sure how best to do this.  I wanted to make some sort of beautiful statement, but under the circumstances and how shaken up I am, I guess I'll do the best I can.

Some of you have been asking about the Edwin admin (the third, the one I've been worried about).  Well, I finally received word late last night that he - or rather, she - passed away about three weeks ago.  I don't have a lot of details, but I wanted let you guys know.

I don't think most of you knew the admin, but I did - not the way you know a friend outside of tumblr, I guess, but the best way you can via message.  And she got to be a very close friend of mine to be honest.  (To the point where I just had a horrible feeling when I hadn't heard from her in so long.  It wasn't like her not to tell me what was up.)

Her significant other already terminated the Edwin blog, and her other blog (in case you didn't realize) was Alfred Waud's.  She was also the former Lewis Powell.  (I tell you this so if you talked to any of these via message or any other way, you'll know.)  I got to know her as Alfred, and she eventually agreed to be the Edwin for me when Edwin II disappeared.

((So, I'm looking through this book that's on my comps list, about 19th century religion in America, and my eye is drawn to a full-page printing of a cover of Harper's Weekly.  For which Alfred Waud drew the illustration.  Which is the guy I'm considering doing my/part of my dissertation on (quick sketch artists for the Civil War have proven fascinating to me of late).  It's an 1867 sketch of a circuit preacher.  By A.R. Waud.