By the way, does anybody know anything about a MS of Spenser's *Complaints* at
the Houghton Library in Cambridge? I have ordered a microfilm and Joe
Loewenstein will be there next term (year?) and can deal with it better than I
can but in the meantime, aside from waiting for the microfilm to arrive I
thought maybe somebody has information about it. I assume it's not *very*
exciting or there would have been comments to that effect on it in the
scholarship. Perhaps it is premature to make this inquiry before I've seen the
thing (or its filmy double), but I don't want to waste much time thinking
about it if a lot of people out there have seen it and determined that despite
Houghton's date of "c. 1591) it's really a 19th c. copy of Upton's version. In
my dreams, of course, it's signed "Edmund Spenser" and has instructions to the
printer and illustrations by Hillyard. Ho ho. Just kidding. David Miller,
Patrick Cheney, and Joe himself say they don't know much about it so I can go
on dreaming for a few more days. Anne Prescott.
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>Be sure the Edmund Spenser Home Page
><http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm> gets a heads-up to link
>you in. Congratulations on a fine project.
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>Richard Bear <[log in to unmask]>
>Renascence Editions
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anne prescott
english, barnard college
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