HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01022 2/15/01 "HARDY'S JUVENILIA QUESTION" ======================================================= From: "Aimee Chan" Subject: Hardy Juvenilia Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:07:02 -0000 Hello All, I am a PhD student at the University of New South Wales in Australia. I am considering doing a thesis in Victorian period juvenilia and am most interested to discover whether Thomas Hardy has any such works remaining. I was advised by the President of the Thomas Hardy Association that this would be the best place to ask. Does anyone know of whether there still exists any Hardy juvenilia (was there actually any in first place) and how do I get access to it. Any information on this subject would be greatly appreciated. My email address is aimeec10@hotmail.com Thanks to everyone for your time. Aimee Chan. ========== Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:33:16 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Hardy Juvenilia I apologise to Aimee for recommending this posting to which she has had no replies. Please let me know, privately, Aimee, if it's in order for me to pop your query in Michael Millgate's mailbox? Cheers, Rosemarie ========== Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:14:13 -0500 From: Michael Millgate Subject: Hardy's juvenilia Aimee Chan has recently asked whether any Hardy juvenilia survives, and I'm afraid that the answer is essentially no.  We do have the poem "Domicilium", said to have been written between 1857 and 1860 (Purdy, p. 177)--although it's impossible to be certain that the poem as published is identical with the poem as originally written--a few watercolour sketches (DCM), and a couple of school exercise books devoted to mathematical exercises (DCM), but I can't think off-hand of anything else prior to 1860 apart from a newspaper item about the town clocks that has not been definitely identified (Purdy, pp. 291-2, has one suggestion, and Millgate, Biography, p. 54, offers another that he at least persists in thinking somewhat more convincing).   Hardy surely wrote other poems besides "Domicilium" in these early years, and he specifically mentions essays on Lamb and Tennyson, but none of this material survives.  Nor, indeed, do we have much direct documentary evidence--beyond the "Studies, Specimens &c." notebook (published in 1994) and the draft MS of "Retty's Phases" (Purdy, facing p. 242)--of what he wrote or tried to write in his twenties. Michael Millgate ========== From: WWKerrigan@aol.com Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:29:40 EST Subject: Re: Hardy's juvenilia In your biography, Michael, you recount the story of Hardy copying out some verses, signing it, and pasting it to the door of the family clock. Does the clock survive? Best, Wally Kerrigan ========== Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:58:51 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Millgate Questions Dear List Members, Michael millgate is not a subscriber to the HARDY-L Forum, so he will not receive mail sent to this list. Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu ========== Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:22:06 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: MORE NOTES Greetings All: Michael Millgate has preferred to ask me to post his latest research note on TTHA *Resource* page and (via) "News Updates* rather than on the FORUM Listerve. Accordingly, and With Every Good Wish, Your Most Obedient, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:52:00 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Hardy's juvenilia Go-Between Here: (Michael Millgate apologises & says that simple self-preservation forbids him to sign up on Listserves): The message is: "....perhaps you could somehow convey to him [Wally K] that I have an idea that the clock is in the DCM, possibly with the Charles Swain poem still inside it, but that he would need to visit or write to the DCM in order to get a more definite answer." Signing Off. RM ==========