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Tom, only coming into your eighties!! I am shocked. When we met at conferences back in the 50s, you must have been barely out of high school. Most certainly you were a very precocious scholar and critic. With Kent Hieatt's death, alas, and as one coming into his nineties, I have inherited his standing as the senior active Spenser scholar. Not in any way wanting to put down an old friend, and a dear one, I want to congratulate you on reaching at last the age of maturity. The best is yet to come. Congratulations and best wishes, Tom, for the coming year. Bert ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas P Roche ([log in to unmask]) To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 11:25 AM Subject: Re: E-books and such Dear Susanne, Much "levefull busynesse ! I called you-all on Xmas eve, but got Anne's 911 screech and hung up. You really should change that to gentle soothing glee. I am sending you both for Christmas past an offprint of my Canonization talk on Donne's poem not my advancement. I wish you luck in LA and want to hear what happens. I don't do Facebook, but I might get into one of those handy things; Be not the first to lay the old aside. I must be the frontrunner for the last to try anything new in life, but I am spinning toward 80 and feel fine. As usual I need Julia's address and phone and email. Love to both of you and a splendid NEW YEAR(s). I don't know whether you knew Kate Frost (PU Phd) (Texas), died of C a short while ago, wrote her obit in JDJ. Those of us who are holding on had better stick together.Yrs, tpr ----- Original Message ----- From: Susanne Woods <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 12:01 pm Subject: Re: E-books and such To: [log in to unmask] > Friends, > > Attached is a selection from the emails on the fascinating E-books > subject,beginning with David and ending with Craig. I would like > to use it as a > handout, as the heading says, at the first session sponsored by a > new MLA > Discussion Group, "Libraries and Research in Languages and > Literatures." I > would also like to use it for a workshop I am doing for the > Council of > Independent Colleges, on Information Fluency in the Literature > Majors, in > early February. I know you have all been kind to say it's in the > publicdomain, and I am assuming permission, but if any of you > objects, please let > me know before Jan. 5, when I leave for LA. > > Assuming the authors are fine with its general use, I hope others > will also > find this document useful as an excellent example of serious > (well, and > sometimes not-so-serious) scholars reflecting upon this enormous > change in > our reading, teaching, and research methods. I've put the > postings in > chronological order and removed personal email addresses. > > Many thanks and a very Happy New Year to all! > > Susanne > > Susanne Woods > Provost and Professor of English Emerita, > Wheaton College (MA) > Senior Advisor for Information Fluency, > Council of Independent Colleges >