Awesome post, as usual. You might also know that modern science is proposing, based on the historical accounts of very similar genetic impairments across most of Henry's stillborn children, that he was at fault for the lack of healthy offspring, let alone healthy male heirs. Not that he'd know - that thinking back then was the fault was with the womb, not the seed ...
O. Henry?
Awesome post, as usual. You might also know that modern science is proposing, based on the historical accounts of very similar genetic impairments across most of Henry's stillborn children, that he was at fault for the lack of healthy offspring, let alone healthy male heirs. Not that he'd know - that thinking back then was the fault was with the womb, not the seed ...