THE VOSS PAPERS

The Private Papers of the Voss Family

Letters, sketches, misfiled receipts, and two centuries of argument, catalogued room by room. Begin at a place, not a date: the house keeps its own order.

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Begin Your Visit

Voss Court's Palladian south façade above the lake.

Voss Court

Hampshire. The family seat since 1820: galleries, a library built around a desk from Monticello, and three generations of baronets who never quite agreed on what to hang where.

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New Orleans seen from across the Mississippi before the fire of 1788: church spires and a windmill on the skyline, sailing ships on the river, townspeople gathered on the levee.

New Orleans

Rue Royale and beyond. Club Marseilles, Théodorville, and the smaller addresses the family keeps turning up.

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The Alte Brücke and the Marienberg fortress above the Main.

Würzburg

Franconia, 1815. A fortress, a bridge, three inns, and a woman who is at the center of a secret network.

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From Voss Court Press

Cover of Remember Them.
Volume One · Nearly Here

Remember Them

A frigate. A freedwoman. A traitor. A spy. A war. Read the opening pages →
Cover of Sarrat's Glare.
Volume Two · In Progress

Sarrat's Glare

A marshal's eyes and ears, a decade before Würzburg. Read the opening pages →

From the Archive

A pencil sketch of a man in a doorway, initialed M.S., June 1816.
Found in the Jefferson Library

The M.S. Sketch

A pencil drawing falls out of a copy of Frankenstein in October 1948, and a researcher spends the rest of her career working out what it proves.
A tall ship under full sail, driving through heavy seas.
Grand Banks, 1812

HMS Falcon

A thirty-two-gun frigate meets an American one, and a captain learns what an honest report can cost. Why there is a Voss at all.
An older nun in a white wimple and crucifix stands in a moonlit orchard holding a burning stick.
Told by Ox, Voss Court, 1829

The Last Hexenkommissar of Würzburg

A ghost story with no ghost in it, only a town that agreed on one answer, and a girl who kept a curse for forty-seven years.
A stylized portrait of a dark-haired woman in a sheer lace blouse playing cards at a green baize table, a glass of wine beside her.
1937

The King

Sir Reginald commissions a society painter fresh off the triumph of his career, and rejects the first sample without a flicker of guilt.

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