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Gordon N. Ray, for photostats, secretarial assistance and travel expenses in connection with the preparation for publication in four volumes of "The Collected Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray...
...always been morbidly self-critical, agonized over almost every book, sometimes suffered a complete nervous collapse. Yet she came of a professional writing clan. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She was related to Thackeray and such scholarly dynasties as the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys. James Russell Lowell was her godfather. She married into the Bloomsbury group, which included Critic Bell, Novelist E. M. Forster, Biographer Lytton Strachey, Economist John Maynard Keynes...
English A section man Gordon N. Ray will work on a "definitive edition" of the letters and private papers of William Makepeace Thackeray. Both men will officially begin work on July 1, and will not teach here next year...
...from his Cambridge retirement crept crotchety, cantankerous Emeritus Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland, 80. to read to 400 Harvard freshmen. He asked some questions about Gulliver's Travels and Henry Esmond. The students' replies showed that they did not know very much about either Swift or Thackeray. Moaned "Copey": "Gentlemen, I pray...
...those multitudes of elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service. . . . Lenitives are available and among the best of them is wisely chosen reading and rereading. . . . Some readers will find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites may be rehabilitated, and enthusiastic readers may rediscover or learn for the first time the magic of Tennyson, the robust courage of Browning, the thoughtfulness and lyric poetry of Landor, the observant accuracy of Crabbe...