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Dear Barbara, I have no students to pass your message on to but I'm meanwhile surprised, nay slightly depressed, at the number of Book History courses set bobbing like corks among the academic flotsam in UK waters. I feel I have more to learn from organising shards in desert caves than discursive guff from the dulled edge of cultural studies. However, I promised I'd send you whatever was unpublished in my drawer and here is a keynote lecture to be given next month at Warwick. The conference topic (not chosen by me) is 'The Romantic Voice', so that is my title. The audience is 'general literature department', I believe, so I thought I would educate them with something they have probably never thought about = the representation of voice in textual apparatus. Perhaps I should retitle it so for you. It may even so be too general for your mag and, if it doesn't suit, no hard feelings: I'll leave it in my drawer. I hope you both had a better ride home than I did. Two hours wait on the runway at JFK, waiting for the other delayed planes in the queue to make way, was no fun. See you again one day (please bring chocolates). As ever, Jim