HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO2041 6/25/02 "MAPS OF WESSEX QUESTION"
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:08:39 -0500
From: John Farrell <farrell@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: maps of Wessex
 

I wonder if any list members can clarify one or two points about the 3 
Wessex maps that appear at the map link on TTHA's web site.  Map #4 (as I 
understand) is done in Hardy's own hand and was made by him in 1895 and is 
now kept at the DCM.  Map #2 is the map that appears in the Osgood/M 
edition of 1895.  This map does not conform very well to Map #4. Does 
anyone know if Hardy actively or only passively accepted the engraving of 
Map #2 as a suitable rendition of his drawing? Or was the drawing, perhaps, 
made after the edition was published?  TTHA also carries Map#1 which did 
not appear, as given on the web site, until the 1920 impression of 
Macmillan's Wessex Edition.  This map is closer to Hardy's own map than any 
of the others but I don't find any documents relating to the decision to 
use this version in 1920.
         I have my own notions about the considerations that affected these 
different versions, especially as regards the problematic appendage that 
Hardy calls "Off-Wessex" but these are not my concern at the moment. I'm 
much more interested here in any documentation I may have missed in which 
Hardy records or reflects his decisions about the various maps. I'll be in 
Dorchester next month and want to use my time as efficiently as I 
can.  Thus my concern to clear up beforehand what I can.
         Thanks in advance for your help on this arcane matter.

Prof. John P. Farrell
Department of English
University of Texas
Austin (78712)
jackfar@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-8755
512-471-4909 (fax)

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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:47:30 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: maps of Wessex

John-- in creating TTHA's *MAPS* page I was relying on the information I
had to hand at the time and I'm sorry to say that I don't have any further
information on them. The only exception is Hardy's own original map of *The
Return of the Native* which is not the one listed on the *MAPS* page. The
map listed is the publisher's copy with some of the relief markings
emphasised according to Hardy's instructions. I do have a copy of the
original RN map as sketched by Hardy and have been meaning to put this on
the *MAPS* page for a while but haven't yet gotten around to it. If you'd
like a copy of the original I'd be happy to send to you privately (or
perhaps this will jolt me into FINALLY creating a page for it on MAPS).

 Sorry to be of little help. If and when you do find any further
information in your research I'd be glad to hear of it.

Good luck!

Rosemarie

PS To the earlier enquirer on the Forum about "Eggardon" -- this is also
"Haggardon" in Hardy and relates to a site near Bridport. Hermann Lea says:
"In *Eggar* we recognise Eggardon, another fine example of British
earth-castles with an almost impregnable position, and commanding a wide
outlook over the surrounding country" (*The Hardy Guides: A Guide to the
West Country, Vol 1,* edited by G.S.Cox: Penguin Books, 1986, 45)

At 10:08 AM 6/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I wonder if any list members can clarify one or two points about the 3 
>Wessex maps that appear at the map link on TTHA's web site.  Map #4 (as I 
>

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