HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO3009 2/6/03 "TTHA EARLY HARDY CRITICISM COLLECTIONS"
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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:15:58 -0600
From: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu>
Subject: A New Initiative: The TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Dear Fellow Hardy Enthusiasts,
The TTHA Board of Directors has just this week given its approval to an ambitious new long-term project to be undertaken by the Association and its friends. The project is to be called the
TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
This Collection, to be made up of books about Hardy published between the approximate dates of 1890 and 1975, will be housed in the Special Collections Department at Milner Library, Illinois State University. The goal of the Collection is, ultimately, to gather and preserve desirable and representative copies of all editions of all Hardy-related critical and scholarly books (including those in languages other than English) up to 1975 and to make them available to visiting scholars. It will have, therefore, both a curatorial or "museum" value and a scholarly value.
The professional staff at Milner have been enthusiastic about the project. They have agreed to acknowledge by letter all gifts of books to the Collection, to purchase (within budgetary constraints) items for it, to create a distinctive bookmark for TTHA Collection books, and at some point in the future to maintain an accessible and current on-line list of the contents of the Collection. Although TTHA's name will be associated with the Collection as its principal sponsor, Milner Library will own the books and will have all professional responsibility for caring for, cataloguing, and if necessary (as in the case of duplicates) disposing of the books.
Our responsibility as TTHA members and friends is to donate the books.
Do you have a spare copy of some early Hardy critical title sitting around that you would like to donate to this project? Have you seen an early Hardy critical book in a bookshop or a recent bookseller's catalogue that you would care to nominate for purchase (or perhaps one that you might purchase yourself with a view to contributing it to the Collection)? Would you care to donate books as a gift or bequest to the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism? The TTHA Board of Directors hope so. Please send your donated books, your nominations for books to be purchased, or your questions about arranging gifts and bequests to:
Steve Meckstroth, Head
Department of Special Collections
Milner Library
Illinois State University
Normal IL 61790-8900
Or, if you prefer, you may certainly send donations, nominations, and questions to either me or Rosemarie and we will see that they are passed on to the staff at Milner:
Bill Morgan Rosemarie Morgan
603 N. School Street 124 Bishop Street
Normal, IL 61761 New Haven, CT 06511
The Collection will be formally launched in late April, and Rosemarie will soon set up a TTHA Collection page at the TTHA main website. But it is not too early to send books or nominations.
I'm pleased and excited about this new initiative, and I look forward to continuing to assist with it over the years to come. I hope our members and friends will help us make it a success.
Sincerely,
Bill Morgan
Executive Vice-President
The Thomas Hardy Association
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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 01:21:59 -0500
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: A New Initiative: The TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Greetings All!
Just to follow up Bill's posting about this exciting new project, here is the
*TTHA Early Hardy Criticism* Booklist:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm
If by any chance you come across other titles (circa 1890-1975) do let me know
and I'll pop them on the List. Better still, send us a copy of the book itself
(and have your name immortalised in the hallowed halls of Hardy fame at Milner
Library.)
I'd also like to acknowledge our entrepeneur, David Cosgrove, without whom
none
of this might have happened. David wrote to me many moons ago asking if he
could donate his copy of Brennecke's *Life and Art* to TTHA. The prospect of a
serious donation threw me into a tizz but Bill, in his quiet and steady way,
wasn't in the least bit phased: "How about starting a Collection?" says he.
And
so we did. David, by the way, will be making a formal presentation of the
Brennecke book here at Yale in a week or two. But the official inauguration of
TTHACEHC will take place in April at Illinois State University. All and any
are
welcome -- the more the merrier!
I should remind you perhaps that this is a first: there is no other Collection
of Early Hardy Criticism in existence. Most major university libraries hold
many of the out-of-print books featured on TTHA's list but not one boasts a
collection of this kind -- housed in one place and preserved for all time from
deterioration and loss, a legacy indeed for future generations to be able to
rely upon, to study and enjoy.
So with such venerable names, among the early writers on Hardy, as Lord David
Cecil and the poets Edmund Blunden, Donald Davie, and Tom Paulin -- to name
but
some -- I give you my leave and hope to hear from you very, very soon.
We will keep you posted,
Cheers,
Rosemarie Morgan
President
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:00:34 -0500
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: A New Initiative: The TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism--Follow-up Note
Just to say, thank you, everyone, for your generous responses to the new
TTHA endeavour: the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism.
Bill tells me he has had a bunch of donations and I've just returned from a
blissful day skiing with friends in Massachusetts to find that Michael
Millgate will be donating his early work, *Thomas Hardy: His Career as a
Novelist * (1971) and that Dale Kramer is hunting out all his oldies for
donation (how marvellous) plus his own book, *Thomas Hardy: The Forms of
Tragedy* (1975).
Isn't this wonderful?
Thank you all--
Happily,
Rosemarie
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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:26:11 -0500
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Greetings all:
Today the first book donation to The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of
Early Hardy Criticism arrived on my desk.
Wonderful! I'll mark up the contribution on the TTHACEHC page on *News
Updates* a.s.a.p.
Professor Dale Kramer is the generous donor and his books will travel with
me to the inaugural session next month at Milner Library, Illinois.
Many grateful thanks to Dale --
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:45:26 -0500
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Correction to my last message concerning The Thomas Hardy Association
Collection of Early Hardy Criticism. I SHOULD have said that I would mark
up Dale' Kramer's contribution on:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm
TTHACEHC lives at TTHA's "Special Host Services" (I'd completely forgotten
I'd set up a new page for this resource).
Dizzily . .
Rosemarie
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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:49:25 -0500
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy Criticism :
Hot in the wake of Dale Kramer comes Richard Nemesvari (today) with 3 more
books for TTHA's Collection! All the way from Nova Scotia -- This is great!
I'll mark the titles on:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm
Thanks so very much, Richard!
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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