HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO2043 6/02/02 "JUNE 2002 NOTES AND QUERIES" =============================================================== Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:03:40 -0700 From: Betty John Cortus Subject: TH's Birthday Happy Birthday to Thomas Hardy wherever you are--162 years later. Betty Cortus hardycor@owl.csusm.edu ========== From: "Gary Alderson" Subject: Re: TH's Birthday Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:20:26 +0100 And thanks to quick-witted midwife, too.... ========== Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 23:20:37 -0400 From: Robert Schweik Subject: Adams Auction Details For anyone interested in the particulars (lots, descriptions, prices, etc) of the Sotheby's sale of the Frederick Adams collection (short of consulting the very expensive auction catalogue), a detailed account of the auction, with extensive quotation from the catalogue may be found in Cox, G. Stevens, ed. *Thomas Hardy Yearbook*. No. 32. Guernsey: Toucan Press, 2002. This issue is devoted entirely to the sale on Wednesday, November 7, 2001, of the Frederick B. Adams collection of Hardyana. It includes the following articles: "Sotheby's press release, 7 Nov 2001." Pp. 5-6. [Reproduces the press release.] "the Thomas Hardy Collection of Frederick B. Adams jnr. by Nicola Harris: extracts from Sotheby's catalogue." Pp. 7-77. [Extensive quotation from the sale catalogue, with many illustrations.] "Hammer prices in pounds sterling." P. 78. [Listed by lot number; "hammer price" does not include the premium payable to Sothebys which ranges between 17.5 and 10 percent.] John Collins. "The Fred Adams Sale: A Bookseller's View." Pp. 37-55 [An rare book dealer's commentary on portions of the sale.] "Letter from the Dorset County Museum." P. 84 [Letter to J. Stevens Cox on the Adams library sale.] The details on pp. 7-77 are those which provide information about the catalogue entries themselves. Bob Schweik schweik@fredonia.edu schweikr@localnet.com ========== From: "harrybatt" Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:07:44 -0500 Jonathan: I'm a new and silent member also--a month on the subscription. If you find out the answer, would you please send the information to me. /s/ John Bridell, Minneapolis as harrybatt@mn.rr.com milles mercis ----- Original Message ----- From: rushmere To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 11:03 AM Please can anybody send me any info on this years meeting in Dorchester I am often a silent member but would be very keen to attend Cheers Jonathan ========== From: "Gary Alderson" Subject: Vamping horns Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:36:19 +0100 This came from a query raised by a friend of mine ( a professional historian) about the use of "vamping horns". As far as I can make out, the thing he's referring to sounds just like the tube used by the curate in "Old Mrs Chundle". They would apparently have been used by west-gallery bands to enable the congregation to follow a specific member of the band more clearly. Is there any evidence as to their use in the Dorset/West Country area? The only place I'm aware of one still in existence is in Market Harborough museum, which is quite a way from Wessex. ========== From: "Rarebks" Subject: Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:16:58 +0100 Hello-- While perusing a 1905 Harpers edition of Tess, I found inserted (at the chapter "Maiden No More") an employment application for the "Spirella Corset Factory." Anyone find anything interesting in an old rare book?--that is, something that was not supposed to be there. ========== Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:06:06 -0500 From: David Havird X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu Subject: Hardy and Gibbon Status: Is it okay to send a link? This little piece from salon.com may interest list-members. http://salon.com/books/today/2002/06/27/june27/index.html DH -- David Havird Associate Dean of the College Department of English Centenary College of Louisiana Shreveport, LA 71134-1188 http://personal.centenary.edu/~dhavird/ ==========