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Fantastic, John. Your help is much appreciated! On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Webster <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Hi David-- > > Without clicking on the finding aid button, I can tell you that the listing > for the UW library is incomplete--though I don't know how incomplete. The > obvious missing volume is the 1596 FQ. I'll pass this on to the rare book > room. I'll even try to get into the library and check your list myself. > > Hope all's well with you-- > > John > > John Webster > College of Arts & Sciences Director of Writing > and University Coordinator for the Puget Sound Writing Project > University of Washington > Seattle, WA 98195-4330 > 206 [log in to unmask] > > > On 1/17/2011 9:58 AM, David Miller wrote: > > Anne, and all, > > There is a "contact us" button on most pages of the Finding Aid that will > enable users to provide feedback to the keeper of the database. I will > forward what you've provided below, Anne. > > Thanks, > > David > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:49 PM, ANNE PRESCOTT <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> Hi, David--thanks for this. How do we make corrections? My 1596 Spenser(s) >> now repose, and I hope with he prospect of some hospital care for the >> embroidered binding, at the Folger Library. Lots of marginalia, as described >> in Spenser Studies vol. 23, and with those embroidered initials "E.T." that >> have inspired some Spielberg jokes from my friends. Anyway, thanks to the >> embroidery and the marginalia, the volumes are just fascinating (unlike my >> totally, utterly, absolutely boring 1611s) and now where they belong, in a >> real library. I'll check the entry for Columbia--that volume had a nice >> analysis, also in Spenser Studies 23, by Columbia's Tianu Hao, now of Peking >> University, where of course he is Hao Tianu. My marginalia, if I'm >> remembering correctly, from Columbia's volume is evidence that the reader >> got seriously confused by the names and pronouns at the start of Book II. I >> know the feeling. My, but you and the others are doing heroic work. Anne. >> >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:44 PM, David Miller <[log in to unmask]>wrote: >> >>> Friends, >>> >>> As promised last week at the Spenser Society luncheon in Los Angeles, I >>> am writing to post the url for a Finding Aid to early copies of Spenser's >>> works: >>> >>> http://spenserarchive.org/findingaid/ >>> >>> This is the first installment of the Spenser Archive that the editors of >>> the Oxford Spenser have been constructing for the past few years. We hope >>> that you will try out the Finding Aid and help us improve it, whether by >>> suggesting design modifications, telling us about copies not yet included, >>> or alerting us to errors that may linger in the database. >>> >>> Please feel free to share this announcement on other lists. We will be >>> especially grateful to those of you who may be willing to forward the url to >>> library staff at your institutions with an invitation to check our entries >>> against their holdings for accuracy and completeness. >>> >>> Best wishes for the new year, >>> >>> David >>> >>> -- >>> David Lee Miller >>> Carolina Distinguished Professor of English >>> and Comparative Literature >>> Department of English >>> University of South Carolina >>> Columbia, SC 29208 >>> (803) 777-4256 >>> FAX 777-9064 >>> [log in to unmask] >>> >>> >> > > > -- > David Lee Miller > Carolina Distinguished Professor of English > and Comparative Literature > Department of English > University of South Carolina > Columbia, SC 29208 > (803) 777-4256 > FAX 777-9064 > [log in to unmask] > > -- David Lee Miller Carolina Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature Department of English University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803) 777-4256 FAX 777-9064 [log in to unmask]