Dear Diary, Jesse : About 25 years ago, in the age of paper books, I read a story about a famous woman and her boy doll. I was totally taken with the story and I never forgot it. In fact, it was to have a huge influence on my doll play and collecting. A couple of years ago, I was thinking about the story and I wanted to find it again. As advancing age and retreating memory does, I couldn't remember any names and I had many of the details mixed up and incorrect. I remembered the basic story, however, so armed with sparse information, I began the current age Google Search. It was a hard slog, going down many dead-ends because of my incorrect remembrance of facts and the scarcity of factual information. I refused to give up and I kept trying all kinds of combinations of information until, at last I found what I was looking for. Eureka! This is an abbreviate story about Joe Corsairs and Lord Tod Wadley. (The information i...
