Madam Mayo: Meanwhile, Over at My Other Blog, Maximilian~Carlota

I am still (whew) working on the next podcast, the 21st of a projected 24, for the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project, which is apropos of my book in-progress on Far West Texas. (And by the way, as of today, when I finally posted the first one, all the transcripts are now available on-line.) It looks like podcast 21 will be a long one. In the meantime, I invite you-- most especially if you happen to be a Mexican history aficionado--to visit my other blog, Maximilian~Carlota, where I post about the research behind my novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire-- plus tidbits ex-post.

I don't post as frequently there as I do here at "Madam Mayo," but I've been at it for a few years now so researchers of Mexico's Second Empire and the French Intervention will find heaps of both useful and exotically crunchy items in the archives. Herewith a list of the top crunchiest posts to date:

+ A Conversation with M.M. McAllen about her book, Maximilian and Carlota

+ "A Court Ball at the Palace of Mexico" by William Wells

+ José Luis Blasio, author of Maximiliano íntimo: A few Notes and Reflections

+ Dr. J. Marion Sims

+ Confederates in Mexico: A Brief Bibliography

+ Kaiser Maximilian von Mexiko Archive in the Library of Congress

+ The Memoirs of Charles Blanchot, General Bazaine's Aide-de-Camp

+ Reglamento y ceremonial de la corte (Maximilian and Carlota's Book of Court Etiquette)

+ Countess Paula von Kollonitz's Eine Reise Nach Mexiko im Jahre 1864

+ How Mad Was Carlota?

+ Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Sara Yorke Stevenson

+ Doña Cordelia (Otilia) Jordan de Degollado

+ The Memoir of Maximilian's Gardener, Wilhelm Knechtel