HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01067 7/26/01 "NEW MATERIAL AT THE DORCHESTER COUNTY MUSEUM" =================================================================================== Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:44:00 +0100 (BST) From: ronald knight Subject: Thomas Hardy and T.E.Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) Most TTHA members are doubtless aware of the friendship between these two during the last few years of Hardy's life, and subsequently carried on with the widowed Florence - detailed in my book 'T.E.LAWRENCE AND THE MAX GATE CIRCLE'. A couple of years ago I donated 23 ring-binders of Lawrence material chronicling his whole life, (which includes of course the Hardy period), plus other TEL related material to the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester, UK. This is now being slowly catalogued onto the museum's database, and will take at least a couple of years or more to complete. In the meantime the now extensive Lawrence collection may be inspected by appointment, or non-complicated postal enquiries dealt with. One of the 'other' items is my unpublished profusely illustrated typescript file titled 'THE T.E.LAWRENCE & THOMAS HARDY CONNECTION WITH BOARS HILL, OXFORD' - copies of which may also be found at (1) Berkshire Record Office, Reading, (2) Local Studies Library, Oxford Central Library, (3) T.E.Lawrence Society Library, c/o Oxford Central Library. Ronald Knight. rdknight@bushinternet.com ========== Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:39:31 +0100 (BST) From: ronald knight Subject: The KNIGHT ancestry of Thomas Hardy : Although not in any way related, a few years ago I did some research into the Knight family into which the Hardys married in the late 1700s. The result was another profusely illustrated unpublished typescript manuscript, with copies deposited in (1) Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, UK, and (2) Dorset County Record Office, Dorchester. Ronald Knight rdknight@bushinternet.com ========== Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:45:00 +0100 (BST) From: ronald knight Subject: Lois Deacon The Dorset County Museum at Dorchester, UK, also has the correspondence I had with the late Lois Deacon concerning her theories set out in her 'PROVIDENCE AND MR HARDY'. Ronald Knight rdknight@bushinternet.com ========== Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:56:22 -0700 From: Betty and/or John Cortus Subject: Re: Welcome Dear Ronald Knight, Welcome to the HARDY-L Forum, and thank you for letting us know about those interesting additions to the DCM. Best Wishes, Betty Cortus, hardycor@mailhost2,csusm.edu ========== Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:40:10 +0100 (BST) From: ronald knight Subject: Hardy and Sir Edmund Gosse Yet further Hardy material in the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, UK. Another donation of mine are two 78 rpm gramophone records of Gosse giving what is tantamount to being a eulogy for Hardy, being recorded very shortly after his death. I transcribed and annotated it for a monograph on the subject, with the late Lois Deacon generously providing an Introduction. James Gibson has kindly made a cassette tape recording of it, for easier listening. Ronald Knight rdknight@bushinternet.com ==========