Dear Dr Woodfine,

Did this get to me by mistake? My husband is a subscriber to the list and I
am an occasional user; however, it hasn't fallen into the wrong quarter. I
am at the English Dept at Anglia Polytechnic University. I couldn't  help
being interested in hearing news of Brian Maidment, who was for many years
our external, and a wonderful external too.  Every word you say is the
truth - he gave an enthralling talk on Victorian prints a few years ago.
Good luck to you both; I come into Walpole mostly via The Castle of
Otranto, though marginally also via Mary Shelley, who enjoyed his letters,
and who was encouraged by his Historic Doubts to dare to question the
consensus about the imposter status of Perkin Warbeck. Sincerely Nora
Crook.


>and was asking me if it was feasible to go up to Farmington for a
>couple of days and look into the resources which the library might
>have for his purposes. He doesn't drive (a dedicated cyclist) but his
>partner might go with him, and she does. In the longer term, if his
>chronological range is not outside the library's holdings, he is
>thinking of looking into whether he might be a suitable person to
>apply for a fellowship at the Lewis Walpole. He's an excellent
>scholar and a *very* nice and only over-modest man. I told him that
>it was often possible to rent the apartment next door and to work in
>the library conveniently that way. I don't know if changes have been
>made since I was there that would affect this. If you could help him
>in any way with his enquiries, I would be very grateful, and it would
>be a service to someone who is producing valuable work and promoting
>the use of print evidence. I don't know if you have any standard
>information which you might send out to him, in which case his
>address is Department of English, Media and Theatre Studies,
>University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH. His
>email is [log in to unmask] He will be in touch soon, in any
>case, I imagine.
>Pat and I were over in Princeton a few weeks ago (of course it seems
>longer). My paper, on corruption in the Walpole administration, was
>very well received, to my relief and delight. It was the first time
>that I have been able to use some of my researches at Yale in a piece
>for publication: the first fruits. Apart from my brief excursion
>Stateside, it has been just departmental administration and hassle;
>long days and an ever-mounting in-tray. Real life, I suppose. In the
>spring of 2000 (only just over a year now!) I have a sabbatical
>semester in which I hope to make serious progress on my Walpole
>biographical study. I am trying to arrange my fugitive research
>moments so as to clear the decks of all my prior commitments, so that
>from August 1999 onwards I am purely going to concentrate on Walpole.
>I can't tell you how I am looking forward to the prospect of research
>and writing, away from the constant stream of minute but
>time-consuming irritations.
>It would be good to hear how you all are, if you have time to keep me
>in touch. I hope you are comfortably hunkered down for the winter to
>come.
>All good wishes
>Philip
>
>Dr. Philip Woodfine
>Department of History
>University of Huddersfield


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         Nora Crook <[log in to unmask]>
Reader in English Studies, Anglia Polytechnic University
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