HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO3038 5/22/03 "HARDY'S FUNERAL ARTICLE QUESTION"
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Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:04:47 +0100
From: Birgit Plietzsch <bp10@st-andrews.ac.uk>
Subject: Newspaper article


Hello

One of my colleagues came across part of a newspaper article on Hardy's
funeral. The section of the article we have got refers to people who were
going to be present at the funeral at Westminster Abbey. There is, however,
also a photograph showing Sir James Barrie and Mrs Cowley, wife of the
Vicar of Stinsford. The caption underneath this photo mentions that "Thomas
Hardy's heart will be interred to-day in the grave of his first wife". From
this reference I assume that the article is dated 16 January 1928.

Is anybody able to identify the source of this article? If you want to
have a look, I scanned both sides of the newspaper clipping and put it
online at

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bp10/hardy/article/

Many thanks

Birgit Plietzsch

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Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:34:21 -0400
From: edavis149@comcast.net
Subject: Re: Newspaper article

Birgit,

I can't be sure, but the article may be part of one listed in the two
volumes of the Hardy ASB volumes. Here are the numbers and citations:

I. 1338 "Nation's Homage to TH," Morning Post (Lond) 1/16/28, p. 9

1408 "TH Buried," MP 1/17/28, pp. 9-10

II. 1330.1 "Mr. TH," MP 1/17/28, pp. 7

1337.3 "Nation's Homage to TH: Ten Pall-Bearers,"
Daily Telegraph (Lond) 1/16/28. p. 9.

I hope this is of assistance.

All the best!

Gene Davis

gdav@purdue.edu

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From: Martin Ray <enl090@abdn.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Hardy's funeral
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:53:03 +0100 (BST)
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The photograph of J. M. Barrie at Hardy's funeral which
Birgit has kindly posted is undoubtedly from a newspaper
which was published in the St Andrews area (this would rule
out the Morning Post). The coverage of news elsewhere in
the clipping is relentlessly Tartan, and they no
doubt printed the photograph of Barrie simply because this
gave a local angle to H's funeral (Barrie was born in
nearby Kirriemuir).

I suppose most regional newspapers like to take a local
perspective on national events, but my own morning rag in
Aberdeen, the Press and Journal, surely wins the parish
pump prize for its headline on the sinking of the Titanic:
"North East Man Dies At Sea: He Was A Butcher in Union
Street".

All the best,
Martin
Dr Martin Ray
School of English and Film Studies
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 2UB
Scotland, UK
m.ray@abdn.ac.uk

Editor, Thomas Hardy Journal

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