HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0021 3/1/00 "MARCH 2000 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ===================================================== From: wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 14:39:47 -0600 To: HARDY-L@coyote.csusm.edu Earlier this morning, I posted Hardy's "The Subalterns" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for February, 2000. This month's poem is the third in a series of Hardy pieces about the meaning of the natural world. 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://netforum.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. While the discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1 (July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)], the discussions of "The Going" (December), "Channel Firing" (January), "The Voice" (February), "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses" (March), "The Phantom Horsewoman" (April), "After the Visit" and "To Meet, or Otherwise" (May), "Under the Waterfall (June), "A Singer Asleep" (July), "The Shadow on the Stone" (August), "During Wind and Rain" (September), "Beeny Cliff" (October), and "The Haunter," "His Visitor," "The Spell of the Rose" (November), "Where the Picnic Was" and "If You Had Known" (December), "Nature's Questioning" (January), and "The Mother Mourns" (February) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the March 2000 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:20:45 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Fund-Raising Appeal Congratulations, Bill! This is very heartwarming! Cheers, Rosemarie At 01:09 PM 3/20/00 -0600, you wrote: >Hear Hardy list-mates, > > This is the second of my occasional updates on the Moments of Vision >Appeal, an attempt to raise funds to purchase Florence Hardy's copy of Hardy's >*Moments of Vision* for presentation to the Hardy Memorial Collection in the >Dorset County Museum. As of today, the fund has raised $1756.50, about 23% of >the $7500 we need by July 1. > > I reproduce below my original announcement to the list. > > thanks, > > Bill Morgan > >____________________________________________________ > > > >Dear Hardy Forum members, > > The Thomas Hardy Association has been presented with a remarkable >opportunity to make a significant contribution to the Hardy Memorial Collection >at the Dorset County Museum: the owners of Florence Hardy's copy of *Moments of >Vision*, beautifully inscribed to her in Hardy's hand, have agreed to sell it >to TTHA for presentation to the Hardy Memorial Collection if we can raise $7500 >by July 1, 2000. If we do not raise the money, they will probably put the book >up for auction. > > The staff at the Dorset County Museum, the Board of Directors of the >TTHA, and many other Hardy enthusiasts with whom I have spoken agree with me >that this book belongs in public view at the DCM alongside its many other >pieces of Hardy memorabilia. For that reason, I have been pleased to become >the TTHA project manager for this fund-raising appeal. Below is the flyer >which will go out to all members of the Thomas Hardy Society (UK) along with >their copies of the February *Thomas Hardy Journal*. Please read the flyer, >feel free to print and redistribute it as you see fit, and if you can, please >contribute. > > And feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. I will >write to the Forum with regular updates on the progress of the appeal. > > Sincerely, > > Bill Morgan > ========== Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:14:37 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Hardy Conference in Australia : Greetings all! Tim Dolin has just sent the following message. I have also posted it & hyperlinked it on TTHA News Update. Cheers, RM ____________________________________ Dear all, I have posted the program for 'Hardy and the 1890s' on the internet, to keep you up to date with what's happening. As firm titles or other details come in I will add them. The address is: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/el/pages/symposium1.html Cheers Tim Dr Tim Dolin The Department of English The University of Newcastle ========== Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 07:14:32 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: HARDY-L News Flash Dear Hardyans, This month, March 2000, marks an important milestone in the history of the HARDY-L Forum. It has now received its one-thousandth message since its inception in October of 1997. A thousand thanks to all of you, who through your contributions, have made this list as entertaining as it is educational. Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu ========== Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:55:14 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: HARDY-L News Flash Congratulations Betty on doing a grand job! Cheers, Rosemarie ========== From: JWWhipple@aol.com> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:49:07 EST Subject: Re: HARDY-L News Flash Dear Betty, A happy milestone! We are all grateful for your efforts and wish you all the best in starting on the next thousand. See you in Dorset! Julian ========== Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:31:46 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: New Division at Hardy Poetry Page Dear Hardy list-mates, I’m very pleased to announce the opening of a new division of the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page, called Collecting Thomas Hardy’s Poetry
and hosted by Mark Simons. The page features basic information about First Editions, Collected Editions, Notable Later Editions, and Resources for the Hardy Collector. There are photographs of most of the important collectable editions Mark has two degrees in English and another in film. He is also a Hardy collector (as well as a law student and businessman). He studied Hardy with me in Dorset during the summer of 1986--but don’t hold that against him. Perhaps best of all, Mark is willing to answer queries about collectable Hardy books (the poetry in particular, but not exclusively). You may approach the new Collecting Page by going to the main Hardy Poetry Welcome page at "http://wolf.its.ilstu.edu/hardysoc/" and following the link from there, or by going directly to "http://pages.ripco.net/~mws/collect/Collect.html" Congratulations to Mark and welcome to this latest addition to the Thomas Hardy Poetry. I hope you enjoy using it. Bill Morgan ========== Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:06:31 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: A Few Reminders Dear All I have been thoroughly enjoying the current discussion on Hardy's Beliefs. Thanks to all who have taken the time to contribute such well-considered and informative observations. As most of you know sustained, educational threads such as this one are likely to be chosen to be printed in one of TTHA's publications. There are several things you can do to make the work of the editor, the archivist, and myself a great deal easier: 1. Please print your full name, academic affiliation, or some form of identification if possible at the end of your message. You will be contacted for your permission if your work is chosen for publication. 2. When responding to a prior message using the reply option, please do not include the whole of the message to which you are responding, especially if it is a long one. This causes an unwelcome clutter filling up the mail boxes of busy people. If necessary simply select the pertinent parts of the message to which you are replying. 3. If at all possible do not send your messages using HTML, because on copying the html based message for archiving, this format includes all the instructions, and removing them is not only time consuming, but also leaves the message in a real mess. And, by the way, for publication purposes we only use WORD so that would be the ideal format for that purpose as well. Many Thanks for Your Cooperation, Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu ==========