H05069 AUGUST, 2005 NOTES AND QUERIES 8/1/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________

LOOKING FOR HARDY LETTER

HARDY AND FOLKLORE

BOLDWOOD'S SANITY CONTINUED

HARDY PORTRAIT SALE

NEW TITLES FROM INDIA

"THE SELF-UNSEEING" ARTICLE

LINES FROM "EMBARCATION"

*THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE* QUESTION

TITANIC LINES QUOTED

DORSET NEWS

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From: paul@kimbo.org

Subject: looking for 1911 letter

Date: August 5, 2005 9:13:50 AM PDT

Hello,

I'm looking for a letter Hardy wrote that includes the following passage:

What should certainly be protested against, in cases where there is no authorization, is the mixing of fact and fiction in unknown proportions. Infinite mischief would lie in that. If any statements in the dress of fiction are covertly hinted to be fact, all must be fact, and nothing else but fact, for obvious reasons. The power of getting lies believed about people through that channel after they are dead, by stirring in a few truths, is a horror to contemplate.

I came across the passage in Elizabeth Bishop's One Art, but she only identifies it as a 1911 letter, with no information on the context or the recipient. I've been reading volume 4 of the Collected Letters (1909-1913) but haven't found it there.

Any help subscribers can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

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From: rnemesva@stfx.ca

Subject: RE: looking for 1911 letter

Date: August 5, 2005 11:02:04 AM PDT

Elizabeth Bishop has simply gotten the date wrong. This passage appears

in a letter from Hardy to James Douglas, dated November 10, 1912. I

located it by doing a search on my CD-ROM version of the letters, but I

believe it may be found on pages 234-235 of the appropriate print volume

of the Purdy/Millgate edition.

Hope that helps.

Richard Nemesvari

Department of English

St. Francis Xavier University

rnemesva@stfx.ca

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From: patrick@prassociates.co.uk

Subject: RE: Folkways

Date: August 1, 2005 6:36:19 AM PDT

My sense is that TH was well-informed about these issues-- although it

would be hard to be as well informed as you are given that the most

searching studies have been made since his time and not before.

Might be worth reminding people of Ruth Firor's fascinating book 'Folkways

in Thomas Hardy' (1931) which, to some extent, covers TH's possible view of

witchcraft.

Patrick Roper

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From: pauline.guerin@ntlworld.com

Subject: Boldwood and insanity

Date: August 5, 2005 1:04:01 AM PDT

Hallo

I'm currently looking at the insanity of Boldwood for my dissertation. At the end of the book there seems to be some confusion over whether or not he was morally responsible for his action in killing Troy. I am aware that there was general confusion anyway in the courts about what constituted moral insanity and responsibility (I've been reading Maudsley's reponsibility in mental disease), but on the one hand the villagers seek to save Boldwood from the gallows and on the other, especially Oak, think that he should die'

'the conviction that Boldwood had not been morally responsible for his later acts now became general' p. 358

Is followed by Oak answerng Smallbury's question 'do you ye really think he was out of his mind when he did it?' with Oak saying ' I can't honestly say that I do'. P. 369

Any comments or light that anyone can throw on the above would be greatly appreciated... is it really as ambiguous as I'm thinking it is, or have I missed something?

Many thanks indeed.

Regards

Pauline

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From: robert_goddard@hotmail.com

Subject: Hardy portrait/photos

Date: August 5, 2005 5:06:53 AM PDT

Dear All,

I thought that you would be interested to learn that the Roy Davids Collection - described by auctioneers Bonhams, with some justification, as "[the] most extensive private collection of historical portraits ever to come to auction" - includes several Hardy items. These lots, numbers 62 - 66, include a photograph of Hardy given to Sassoon, a portrait of Hardy by Eves and a photograph of Agatha Thornycroft titled "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". Further details here: www.bonhams.co.uk

With best wishes,

Robert Goddard

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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu

Subject: Re: portrait sale including Hardy

Date: August 22, 2005 7:27:57 PM PDT

Somebody posted a notice on the Forum of this sale recently -- here are more details.

Cheers,

Rosemarie

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I am selling my collection of some 300 portraits of writers, artists and musicians etc (listed below) at Bonham's on 3 October 2005. The portraits are in a wide variety of media - oils, drawings, watercolours, etchings, woodcuts, medallions, photographs, sculptures etc. They range over five centuries. The catalogue (£20) is fully illustrated in colour and the collection comprehensively described (250 pages). Prices range from £150 to £40,000.

The contact at Bonham's is George Plumptre -- george.plumptre@bonhams.com.

You can view the catalogue on-line at www.bonhams.com -- SALES TAB -- Future sales -- 3 October 2005. Catalogues can be ordered on subscriptions@bonhams.com

Roy Davids

The collection contains nearly 300 portraits in a wide range of media, priced between £150 and £40,000, under the headings of Literature, Art, Music and Philosophy and Science, of the following sitters:

LITERATURE: Richard Aldington,William Archer,Guiseppi Baretti, George Barker, J.M. Barrie, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett Max Beerbohm, Hilaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, William Blake, James Boswell, Rupert Brooke, George Douglas Brown, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Causley, Lord Chesterfield, G.K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill, John Clare, S.L. Clemens, Jean Cocteau, S.T. Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, John Davenport, W.H. Davies, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Austin Dobson, J.P. Donleavy, Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas pere and fils, George Eliot, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Robert Frost, Christopher Fry, John Galsworthy, David Garrick, William Godwin, Johann Goethe, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray, Graham Greene, Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, William Hayley, Seamus Heaney, John Heath-Stubbs, Adrian Henri, Theodore Hook, Laurence Housman, Ted Hughes, Victor Hugo, Christopher Isherwood, Henry James, Samuel Johnson, David Jones, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Ladies of Llangollen, Philip Larkin, D.H. Lawrence, Laurie Lee, Vachel Lindsay, Arthur Machen, T.B. Macaulay, George Macbeth, John Masefield, William Mason, W.S. Maugham, George Meredith, A.A. Milne, John Milton, Adrian Mitchell, George Moore, Sturge Moore, Ottoline Morrell, Willaim Morris, Henry Newbolt, Coventry Patmore, Mervyn Peake, Alexander Pope, Anthony Powell, Powys Mathers, J.B. Priestley, Peter Quennell, Samuel Richardson, Lennox Robinson, Isaac Rosenberg, D.G. Rossetti, Nicholas Rowe, A.L. Rowse, Salman Rushdie, John Ruskin, George Sand, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, G.B. Shaw, Sacheverell Sitwell, C.P. Snow, Stephen Spender, Edmund Spenser, James Stephens, R. L. Stevenson, A.C. Swinburne, Arthur Symons, Stephen Tennant, Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas, R.S. Thomas, Horace Walpole, Rex Warner, Theodore Watts-Dunton, H.G. Wells, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Leonard Woolf, William Wordsworth, Kit Wright, W.B. Yeats, Emile Zola

ART: Arnold Auerbach, Francesco Bartolozzi, Frank Brangwyn, John Bratby, Robert Collinson, Robert Colquhoun, John Copley, Charles Cundall, William De Morgan, Roger Fry, Hubert Herkomer, Edgar Holloway, Augustus John George William Joy, Oskar Kokoschka, Alphonse Legros, Max Liebermann, Coutts Lindsay, L.S. Lowry, Henri Matisse, James McBey, Samuel Mesquita, Henry Moore, Berthe Morisot, Stuart Newton, William Nicholson, Oscar Rejlander, Joshua Reynolds, Charles Ricketts, Auguste Rodin, William Rothenstein, Henry Rushbury, Singer Sargent, Charles Shannon, Walter Sickert, Thomas Stothard, David Strang, William Strang, G.F. Watts, Benjamin West, James McNeill Whistler, Richard Winckel, Theodore Wirgman, Thomas Worlidge, Johann Zoffany

MUSIC: Daniel Auber, Thomas Beecham, Peter Benoit, Lennox Berkeley, Hector Berlioz, Henri Berton, Arthur Bliss, Adrian Boult, Luigi Cherubini, Frederyk Chopin, Colin Davis, Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, Wilhelm Furtwangler, W.S. Gilbert, Christoph Gluck, Charles Gounod, Paul Hindemith, Johann Hummel, Joseph Joachim, Gustav Mahler, Neville Marriner, Yehudi Menuhin, Maurice Ravel, Max Reger, Hans Richter, Gioacchino Rossini, Claude Rouget de Lisle, Emil Sauer, Dimitri Shostakovich, Clara Schumann, Jean Sibelius, Gaspare Spontini, Leopold Stokowski,Igor Stravinsky, Sigismund Thalberg, Arturo Toscanini, Guiseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, William Walton, Guillaume Wilhelm

PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE: A.J. Ayer, Charles Darwin, Thomas Graham, David Hume, William Kelvin, G.E. Moore, Richard Owen, Ernest Renan

Among the many artists whose works are to be found in the collection are: Max Beerbohm, David Low, B.R. Haydon, Tom Phillips, Sir Edwin Landseer, Laura Knight, Joseph Severn, Thomas Woolner, G.F. Watts, Gerald Kelly, Augustus John, Graham Sutherland, Leonard Baskin, Charles Shannon, Herbert Rose Barraud, David d'Angers, Michael Ayrton, Nadar, Carajat, Colvin Smith, Prince Troubetskoy, Maurice Lambert, Helen Allingham, Mervyn Peake, Sylvia Plath, Carlo Pellegrini, Muirhead Bone, Gordon Stuart, Juliet Pannett, William Strang, Frederick Hollyer, Alvin Coburn, Peter Edwards, Emil Orlik, Julia Margaret Cameron, Hoppé, Karsh, Reginald Eves, Humphrey Ocean, Alphonse Legros, Olive Edis, James Gunn and C.R. Leslie. There are also portraits after Joshua Reynolds, Naysmith, Houdon, Allan Ramsay, Kneller, Westall, Singer Sargent, Romney, Thomas Phillips, Hoare of Bath, Millais, Christian Rauch and others.

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From: a.louwen@inter.nl.net

Subject: Hardy in India

Date: August 17, 2005 12:41:37 AM PDT

In: New Titles from India, July 2005, I found the following bibliographic reference:

The Poetic Element in Hardy's Major Novels

Kalra, Kamlesh

Shalab Publishing House, 2005, 224 p. (s.l.), Rs 595

ISBN 8188681067

Anne Louwen

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From: schweikr@localnet.com

Subject: Re: Hardy in India

Date: August 17, 2005 9:11:01 AM PDT

Dear Anne,

I very much appreciate your good message and will add the information

you provide to TTHA's Checklist at once. I will also, of course, credit

you with providing the information.

If you should run across any other such publications, I do hope you would

call them to my attention.

With very best wishes, and with thanks on behalf of Hardy scholars,

Bob Schweik

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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu

Subject: Self Unseeing

Date: August 22, 2005 4:28:51 PM PDT

Hi Everyone --

Below is a note from poet Christopher Nield on his short piece on Hardy's "The Self-Unseeing."

Cheers,

Rosemarie

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Hi Rosemarie

Just resending link to Epoch Times article.

Unfortunately, the web people have set the poem as a piece of prose. So apologies in advance.

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-11/31069.html

Best wishes

Christopher

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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu

Subject: Writing on the Wall --Hardy's "Embarcation"

Date: August 22, 2005 7:52:52 PM PDT

Writing on the Wall, Starboard-Aft , near "Illuminations" on the new Cunard liner, Queen Mary 2.

Lines from Hardy's "Embarcation":

"Wives, sisters, parents, wave white hands and smile,

As if they knew not that they weep the while."

As we sailed over the site of the Titanic, just south of Newfoundland, the captain announced that our great ship would pay tribute. First one heavy blast from midship, then a deeper blast from the second, larger funnel and finally a thunderous roar from the largest of all. It was unexpectedly moving.

I would have welcomed a companion for a reading of Hardy's lines -

"In a solitude of the sea

Deep from human vanity,

And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she."

Cheers,

Rosemarie

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From: soocil@yahoo.com

Subject: for translation

Date: August 24, 2005 7:16:46 AM PDT

This is sushil once again asking everyone that anybody interested to send any simplified versons of the novel THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE.

SUSHIL K.C.

R.b. BANK

GENERAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

SINGHDURBAR, KATHMANDU

POBOX 8368

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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu

Subject: Re: for translation

Date: August 24, 2005 9:28:24 AM PDT

Sushil, I do not know of any simliplied version of *The Mayor of

Casterbridge* and I doubt that anything like a full-length version exists.

I am guessing that your problem in translating this novel lies with some of

Hardy's more unusual word usages, or with 19th Century English in general.

Two books you might find helpful with the former are: Ralph Elliott's

*Thomas Hardy's English* (Blackwell, 1984), and F. B Pinion's *A Thomas

Hardy Dictionary* (New York UP, 1989).

Best of Luck

Betty Cortus

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From: Jcphardysoc@aol.com

Subject: Re: Writing on the Wall --Hardy's "Embarcation"

Date: August 24, 2005 2:27:37 PM PDT

The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra near Belfast has a diorama model in a darkened room of the Titanic sinking . A panel by the entrance has a few lines from 'The Convergence of the Twain'. The hip was of course built in the nearby Harland & Wolff Belfast shipyard.

It was goood to find a Hardy reference when I visited in June, even though he never visited the north of Ireland aas he hints in the poem 'Donaghadee'.

Best wishes

John Pentney

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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu

Subject: Dorset News

Date: August 26, 2005 5:20:02 AM PDT

Yalbury Cottage is offering a Celebration in Dorset: Food and Wine Weekend

Friday, 28 October to Sunday, 30 October

For details of the venue go to

http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm

Or contact direct:

Yalbury Cottage, Lower Bockhampton, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8PZ

E-mail YalburyEmails@aol.com Telephone 01305 262 382 Fax 01305 266 412

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Cheers,

Rosemarie

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