[ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 103, Issue 3

Tue Nov 10 23:36:36 PST 2015

"I just read it on the tiny screen of my cell phone waiting for new tires to be put on my wife's car". That has to be all of human misery consummated in a single sentence. RP-----Original Message-----
From: ilds-request at lists.uvic.ca [mailto:ilds-request at lists.uvic.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 03:00 PM
To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca
Subject: ILDS Digest, Vol 103, Issue 3

Send ILDS mailing list submissions to	ilds at lists.uvic.caTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit	https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ildsor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to	ilds-request at lists.uvic.caYou can reach the person managing the list at	ilds-owner at lists.uvic.caWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Contents of ILDS digest..."Today's Topics: 1. Re: LD letters for sale (Kennedy Gammage) 2. Re: LD letters for sale (Bruce Redwine) 3. Re: LD letters for sale (James Gifford) 4. Re: LD letters for sale (Bruce Redwine)----------------------------------------------------------------------Message: 1Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:01:13 -0800From: Kennedy Gammage To: ilds at lists.uvic.caSubject: Re: [ilds] LD letters for saleMessage-ID:	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"Anthony, what a lovely gift your PDF from Clouds Hill Books was! I justread it on the tiny screen of my cell phone waiting for new tires to be puton my wife's car. That voice! Durrell springs right to life from the keysof his old typewriter.If I may just bring up a point of discussion we have had in the pastconcerning the genre of Prospero, Marine Venus and Bitter Lemons, I wasgratified that Mr. MacNiven refers to them as 'foreign residence' books,noting that Durrell hated traveling. I feel vindicated!Cheers - KenOn Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Anthony Hirst <anthony.hirst at btinternet.com> wrote:> This may not be news to ILDS list readers, but, just in case it is, I> thought I should pass it on. Yesterday I receive an email, addressed to me> personally, from Clouds Hill Books stating that:>> < written to his close friend and fellow author Henry Miller ? please see the> attached file for details. The letters, written in the last decade of> Miller?s long and eventful life, are rich in content, and concern Durrell?s> life, travels, works-in-progress, women, marital difficulties, and views on> other writers. The price of the collection is $17,500.>>>> The brochure that goes with the offer of sale (pdf attached to this email)> contains the full texts. A quick check suggests that most of the 16 items> offered for sale are not included in *The Durrell-Miller Letters,> 1935-80.* There is no information about the provenance of the> typescripts/manuscripts concerned. If anyone knows more it would be good to> hear it. The background material in the brochure is simply extracts from> Ian MacNiven's narrative contributions to *The Durrell-Miller Letters.*>> While few of us are likely to have a spare $17,500, perhaps someone could> use their influence with one of the libraries/archives that already hold> Durrell collections. It would be a great pity if the letters were to end up> inaccessible in a private collection.>> Contact details for Clouds Hill Books are are below.>> Anthony Hirst> ------------------>>> Clouds Hill Books> P.O. Box 1004> Village Station> New York, NY 10014> 212-414-4432> cloudshill at cloudshillbooks.com>> Anthony Hirst> ----------------->>>>>> _______________________________________________> ILDS mailing list> ILDS at lists.uvic.ca> https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds>>-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: ------------------------------Message: 2Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:37:49 -0800From: Bruce Redwine To: James Gifford Cc: Bruce Redwine Subject: Re: [ilds] LD letters for saleMessage-ID: <93C40CF7-633F-49CF-A8B1-7C909FD4D7C9 at earthlink.net>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"Anthony Hirst,Many thanks for the information about the sale and the document containing the transcription of the letters. Well done. The transcription is very useful. I would recommend the purchase of the letters to the McPherson Library, Special Collections, U of Victoria, BC. James Gifford is probably on top of this.Bruce> On Nov 10, 2015, at 12:13 AM, Anthony Hirst  wrote:> > This may not be news to ILDS list readers, but, just in case it is, I thought I should pass it on. Yesterday I receive an email, addressed to me personally, from Clouds Hill Books stating that:> > <>> > The brochure that goes with the offer of sale (pdf attached to this email) contains the full texts. A quick check suggests that most of the 16 items offered for sale are not included in The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80. There is no information about the provenance of the typescripts/manuscripts concerned. If anyone knows more it would be good to hear it. The background material in the brochure is simply extracts from Ian MacNiven's narrative contributions to The Durrell-Miller Letters.> > While few of us are likely to have a spare $17,500, perhaps someone could use their influence with one of the libraries/archives that already hold Durrell collections. It would be a great pity if the letters were to end up inaccessible in a private collection.> > Contact details for Clouds Hill Books are are below.> > Anthony Hirst> ------------------> > > Clouds Hill Books> P.O. Box 1004> Village Station> New York, NY 10014> 212-414-4432> cloudshill at cloudshillbooks.com > > Anthony Hirst> -----------------> > > > > _______________________________________________-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: ------------------------------Message: 3Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:54:24 -0800From: James Gifford To: ilds at lists.uvic.caSubject: Re: [ilds] LD letters for saleMessage-ID: <56423D60.7040206 at gmail.com>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowedOn 2015-11-10 10:37 AM, Bruce Redwine wrote:> I would recommend the purchase of the> letters to the McPherson Library, Special Collections, U of Victoria,> BC. James Gifford is probably on top of this.Already notified 'em... Fingers crossed they've got some cash.James------------------------------Message: 4Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:02:21 -0800From: Bruce Redwine To: James Gifford Cc: Bruce Redwine Subject: Re: [ilds] LD letters for saleMessage-ID: <61F9FA27-E528-43F8-A2FE-458626AABA22 at earthlink.net>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"Ken,True, but let me nitpick, for the sake of argument. MacNiven?s ?foreign residence? books aptly applies to Prospero?s Cell, Bitter Lemons, and Reflections, but what about Sicilian Carousel and Greek Islands, which are indeed travel books? All would subsume under ?island books,? I would guess. Durrell, however, is very hard to classify, for all his works are in some sense fictional, and he was always, to use Said?s phrase, ?out of place.? You might even classify the Quartet, along with the Quintet, as a ?foreign residence? series.Bruce> On Nov 10, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Kennedy Gammage  wrote:> > Anthony, what a lovely gift your PDF from Clouds Hill Books was! I just read it on the tiny screen of my cell phone waiting for new tires to be put on my wife's car. That voice! Durrell springs right to life from the keys of his old typewriter.> > If I may just bring up a point of discussion we have had in the past concerning the genre of Prospero, Marine Venus and Bitter Lemons, I was gratified that Mr. MacNiven refers to them as 'foreign residence' books, noting that Durrell hated traveling. I feel vindicated!> > Cheers - Ken> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Anthony Hirst > wrote:> This may not be news to ILDS list readers, but, just in case it is, I thought I should pass it on. Yesterday I receive an email, addressed to me personally, from Clouds Hill Books stating that:> > <>> > The brochure that goes with the offer of sale (pdf attached to this email) contains the full texts. A quick check suggests that most of the 16 items offered for sale are not included in The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80. There is no information about the provenance of the typescripts/manuscripts concerned. If anyone knows more it would be good to hear it. The background material in the brochure is simply extracts from Ian MacNiven's narrative contributions to The Durrell-Miller Letters.> > While few of us are likely to have a spare $17,500, perhaps someone could use their influence with one of the libraries/archives that already hold Durrell collections. It would be a great pity if the letters were to end up inaccessible in a private collection.> > Contact details for Clouds Hill Books are are below.> > Anthony Hirst> ------------------> > > Clouds Hill Books> P.O. Box 1004> Village Station> New York, NY 10014> 212-414-4432 > cloudshill at cloudshillbooks.com > > Anthony Hirst> -----------------> > > > > > _______________________________________________> ILDS mailing list> ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds > > > _______________________________________________> ILDS mailing list> ILDS at lists.uvic.ca> https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: ------------------------------Subject: Digest Footer_______________________________________________ILDS mailing listILDS at lists.uvic.cahttps://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds------------------------------End of ILDS Digest, Vol 103, Issue 3************************************
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/attachments/20151111/b5d83c8e/attachment.html>