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: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask])">Thomas P Roche ([log in to unmask])To: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 11:25 AMSubject: Re: E-books and suchDear 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
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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
>