TY - JOUR EP - 58 JF - The Musical Times AV - public ID - discovery19076 SN - 0027-4666 A1 - Chrissochoidis, I. VL - 148 Y1 - 2007/// N2 - This essay offers a scholarly meditation on a biographical oddity first reported in my doctoral thesis 'Early reception of Handel's oratorios, IJ3Z?IJ84: narrative?studies-documents' (Ann Arbor: UMI, 2004). It also forms a case study of applying surgical focus on a minimal documentary surface. The result IS organic scholarship of open ends, wide implications and joyful inquisitiveness; qualities presently undervalued in academia yet indispensable for genuine humanistic research. I am thankful to Ellen T. Harris for her encouragement and support, and to Karol Berger and Thomas S. Grey for easing my transition to postdoctoral life. IS - 1898 TI - A Handel relative in Britain? SP - 49 UR - http://themusicaltimes.blogspot.com/p/index-2007.html ER -