HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H14/97 12/31/97 PHOTOS ON THE WEB ===================================================== Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 23:17:43 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Photos on the web Well now, Mr Fawkes-Manque (can't be bothered with the accent-acute -- sorry), which is it to be? First we had you lined-up for joining the THSNA team as the "Images-Online-Freak". Now you have switched to the "Short-Stories-Buff" -- please DO make up your mind! I believe the original GF missed the mark ( of demolishing the Westminster Houses of Parliament) because he got through the wrong door at the wrong moment. So. Beware the squibs! (we have Your Number!!!!). Signed, Mrs Light-Brown ********** At 11:13 AM 11/2/97 +0000, you wrote: >Would we want to have a separate link on our Welcome page >to Short Stories (which at present are subsumed under >novels)? > >Since I'm suggesting it, I suppose I should also volunteer >to organise it. > >Remember, remember the Fifth of November (start of >_Return_), so get your bonfires ready, folks. > >Martin > >---------------------- >Dr Martin Ray >University of Aberdeen >m.ray@abdn.ac.uk > ********** Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 07:14:30 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Photos on the web Martin, perhaps you could "Manage" both Photos and Stories (I would set up different pages for them of course). But first I need more feedback from other THSNA VPs not to mention Eugene Davis who has been invited to "Manage " a MEDIA page for the THSNA website. Could be that the photos will be incorporated into that project. I've compiled quite a substantial amount of the Purdy stuff and hope to put it into THSNA RESOURCES at some point (as yet, haven't had the time). Also Michael Millgate is bringing out a book on the uncollected stuff at Yale. So one way or another it's all in the pipeline. (Rosemarie Morgan) ********** From: Martin Ray Subject: Re: Photos on the web Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 11:39:20 +0000 (GMT) Oh dear, so I have to make up my mind? This is always a bleak moment. My memoirs, incidentally, are going to be called 'And here's what you could have won'. Right, on to Hardy things. Yes, I floated the idea of the web site hosting a kind of online Lea, which I envisaged as a co-operative venture. We must all have photographs of suitable sites, which could be co-ordinated and indexed by someone. I wouldn't see this as having the highest scholarly priority, but it might be of some interest. Also, I would especially like to see a Short Stories link which could contain a bibliography, chronology, etc. As it is, the stories always seem to be marginalized. One or two other things which we might like to think of doing: There are dozens of Uncollected Contributions listed at the back of Purdy, and most of them have never been reprinted. I'm sure I'm not the only person who has been in the middle of writing something, realized that I needed to consult one of these and then had to wait a month or two for it to arrive on Inter-Library Loan. The web site is a great opportunity to publish these items and get them properly edited and annotated. Finally, there are hundreds of interviews and recollections of Hardy which have never been reprinted, and we could have a link to a site at which the more interesting of these could be presented. Of course, the timing and nature of this should be at the discretion of Jim Gibson, since one would not want to pre-empt his edition of the Interviews etc. (due next year). Forgive me for going on at such length, but I just wanted to throw a few ideas into the ring. All best wishes Martin Dr Martin Ray University of Aberdeen m.ray@abdn.ac.uk ********** From: Dennis Taylor Subject: Re: Short stories Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 15:53:17 -0500 Martin Ray's project sounds very good to me. Dennis Taylor On Thu, 06 Nov 1997 07:14:30 -0500 Rosemarie Morgan wrote: > Martin, perhaps you could "Manage" both Photos and Stories (I would set up Dennis Taylor taylor@bc.edu Boston College ********** Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 10:00:23 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Photographs on the Web >Dear Martin, > in the process of clearing my backlog of e-mail I came across this message (below)from BOB and can't remember whether I did ever forward it to you as he asked me to do. So here it is, just in case I omitted it. Next thing is, re photos or any other future THSNA page, I can't take on any more at this end. Up until THSNA set up Forum I had everything originating here at Yale, but when the idea of future projects came (ie Forum)I decided upon devolution. Betty seemed just right for Forum (and later I found Seth), so we invited them both to join the team and to inaugurate the Forum from Betty's base in Calif. (When I set this whole THSNA thing up back in April Bob and I agreed (with other VPs) that all decisions be passed through at least 2 THSNA VPS-- this was duly done with the FORUM-BETTY decision). > I don't think any of us anticipated quite how fast this THSNA thing wd take off (overwhelming) or quite how potentially vast it wd become! > Hence, in future this will be general practice (devolution), first because the server at Yale (not at Pantheon but at Elsinore) sets a limit on space and mine is pretty full (I could BUY more space but I don't want MORE expenses.) Next, and far more important, is that I am already overloaded with THSNA jobs. Luckily (for my sanity) John Cortus is going to take over the membership/accounting task (as of next Jan), but I still have to do all the designing, hyperlinking, uploading etc., on Links and Journal and every other (original) THSNA page online. > So o OO O O O, if the PHOTOS project or the Short Story project is to happen we have to find someone who is prepared to operate it (under THSNA auspices and protocols -- of which more anon) from their home server (to which I will provide hyperlinks from the Elsinore site here). That person has (according to THSNA protocols) to be a scholar (or, in Seth's exceptional case, a VIRTUAL scholar-- I have yet to design his VP page so at the moment I'm afraid he's invisible)-- for reasons of ensuring certain integrities and scholarly responsibilities. > That then, is the picture. If you feel you'd like to take on either one or both (Short Stories and Photos) please let me know and we'll get started. As you can see from Bob's letter (below) the idea has passed muster vis a vis yourself. > Phew! that is enough for now (we could always meet up and talk when I'm in Scotland in 2 weeks time) > all best, > Rosemarie > >>From: "Robert C. Schweik Dr" >>Organization: State University of New York - College at Fredonia >>To: en1090@abdn.ac.uk >>cc: RM82@pantheon.yale.edu >>Subject: Photographs on the Web >> >>Dear Martin, >> >>When you mentioned in your last message that you were thinking >>of constructing an index to photographs on the web and were >>planning to put some of your own photographs on, with an index >>of them, a thought of obvious simplicity crossed my mind. >>Could the THSNA web site become involved in that? What I have in >>mind is this. The "Links" index I'm doing is (Venus knows!) >>complicated enough without attempting to include in it pictures, >>except to indicate what sites contain them. Why couldn't we >>construct another sub-page on our site, equivalent with "Links" >>and all the other sub-pages, headed "Pictures," and both publish >>on that sub-page both pictures (e.g., yours) originating from >>our site, and, also, an index to pictures available on other sites >>on the web. I begin to see, too, possibilities for such indexing. >>One thought I had was to list the pictures (to the extent possible) >>by the name of the actual subject (e.g., "Dorchester, viewed from >>the North, 1995") with fictional names (e.g., "Casterbridge") >>cross referenced to them. >> >>But, as you know better than I, the problems are difficult and the >>solutions will require more ingenuity than I have to solve them. >> >>The main thing I want to communicate is my enthusiasm for such a >>project. And I do hope you would be interested. >> >>As you'll see, I've sent a copy of this letter to Rosemarie >>Morgan, who, I think, will be as enthusiastic as I am about such >>a valuable addition such a page would be to the THSNA web site. >> >>I'll write to her asking that she get in touch with you directly. >> >>With all best wishes, >> >>Bob >> >> Robert Schweik >> Department of English >> State University College >> Fredonia, NY 14063 >> schweik@fredonia.edu ********** Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 16:29:06 +0000 From: Martin Ray Organization: Aberdeen University I thought some members might like to see the granite building which Hardy was describing in his poem, 'Aberdeen', where he records his impressions of the city. The photograph can be found at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/central/vcampus/college.hti Hardy said somewhere that the 'Queen' of the poem was Knowledge and Wisdom, but I wouldn't know about that. Hardy visited Aberdeen only once (in 1905) and he came to receive his first honorary degree. This was conferred in the Mitchell Hall, so he would have entered Marischal (one of the two colleges which constitute the university) by the gate on the left and walked straight ahead to the Mitchell Hall, whose entrance is the tower shown in the background. He stayed in Old Aberdeen, which is where I work. Needless to say, it is much prettier and older than Marischal! Apologies for being so parochial. Martin ********** Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 18:40:43 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: "Aberdeen" You, Martin, are scarcely "parochial" but I am frivolous.... and at this very moment of having just returned to Connecticut after ten days at Stirling University in Scotland (as you know, of course), to find -- with many grateful thanks -- your goodly piece of Aberdonian granite online -- I am prompted to offer a heartfelt Thanksgiving that Caledonian architecture just about saves its climate! (JUST about).. Rosemarie Morgan **********