HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H9887 12/1/98 "DECEMBER 98 ANNOUNCEM ENTS" ====================================================== = From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 11:15:59 -0600 Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for December Later this afternoon, I will be posting Hardy's "The Going" (the first of the famous "Poems of 1912-13") as the TTHA Poem of the Month for December, 1998. You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm or by going directly to http://wolf.its.ilstu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/ths/a/1 Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month discussion, you will encounter a program called NetForum which will give you the opportunity to read the poem as well as any comments it may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you like, and finally submit your contribution by clicking on the button labeled Post the Message. (*Don't use the Reset Message button*; you will lose your work.) If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to guard against system crashes and other contingencies by first preparing your response in a word processing program, then copying it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of NetForum. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu. I should perhaps note that while the discussions for February, March, April, and May have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in the *Hardy Review*, I:1 (July 1998), the discussions of the three "In Tenebris" poems (June), "An August Midnight" (July), "Wessex Heights" (August), "The Souls of the Slain" and "Drummer Hodge" (September), "Reminiscences of a Dancing Man" (October), and "The Darkling Thrush" (November) are still open and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the December 1998 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 12:46:22 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Frivolities For your amusement: On TTHA "News Updates" and "Thomas Hardy Society" pages I have posted some snapshots taken at a dinner party hosted by members of The Thomas Hardy Society (UK) for members of The Thomas Hardy Association (TTHA) last July at the International Hardy conference at Dorchester. If anyone else has Conference pictures they'd like to add to this little collection do please send to me by e-attachment (JPG). With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 22:34:12 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Review Copies Today, the latest batch of HARDY REVIEW (1998) copies have been mailed to the following: Lisa Cacilia Richard Bender Sarah Dangelantonio Theresa Duphare Sumiko Inoue Phillip Holcomb Keith & Katherine Thompson Suzanne Schrader Roy Buckle ------------- If I have forgotten any applicants please let me know. ------------- The Library of Congress has now allocated an ISBN for The Hardy Review (1998) It is : 0-9669176-0-X Those of you who have the pre-IBSN Hardy Review can enter this ISBN on your copy;this is the world database volume location number;if you wish, I will send you a self-adhesive barcode and ISBN for you to affix to your copy (please e-mail me with your name and address and I'll snailmail it to you pronto). A library order form for The Hardy Review can be downloaded from the TTHA "Review" page. Thank you all for your patience. With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 21:32:34 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: Hardy's copy of Moliere for sale Dear listmates-- I have just noticed that someone in Boston is auctioning off a 4-volume set of Moliere's works published in Paris in 1813 that has Hardy's signature on the title page of volume 1; the seller assumes (reasonably enough) that this is Hardy's own copy of Moliere. The set is being auctioned over the internet. The starting bid is $500. If I was a rich man, . . . You can find the auction by going to the home page for *ebay* (www.ebay.com) and typing Thomas Hardy into their search box. (Running a Thomas Hardy search at ebay today will also turn up a couple of different editions of *Mayor* on offer.) If you buy the Moliere, let me know, would you? I'm curious about whether or not there are any marks in *Le Misanthrope*, and I wonder if there's any indication of *when* Hardy bought the books. By the way, if anybody on the list has Michael Millgate's e-mail address, you might be doing him a service by letting him know about these books for sale. Last I knew, he was working on trying to reconstruct a list of books in Hardy's library. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:49:10 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Hardy's copy of Moliere for sale Hi Bill, I have forwarded this message to Michael Millgate. Thanks for the info. Best Rosemarie ========== Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:14:24 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Cool Yule Wishing you all the best, brightest and most bountiful of holidays and a very happy New Year! And may The Thomas Hardy Association continue to prosper, as it has done since its inception in 1997, with your invaluable support and exceeding goodwill. With appreciation and blessings, Rosemarie Morgan (President) ========== Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 09:11:49 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Re: Cool Yule On this Christmas Eve a fragment of Hardyan nostalgia for past festivities comes to mind: Here we broached the Christmas barrel, Pushed up the charred log-ends; Here we sang the Christmas carol, And called in friends. . . . >From "The House of Hospitalities." Wishing you all Peace and Joy. Betty Cortus ==========