Dear Richard, Thank you for the update. It's great to hear how the work is progressing. So many people have had a hand in this and I'm very grateful for all your work.
Hearing about future publications is also very exciting, although my wife may not be as happy to hear that more Churchill volumes will be on their way in the future! Thank you again for the update. SF -------------------------------------------- Mr. Sandy Finlayson <http://faculty.wts.edu/posts/?facultyfilter=193> Director of Library Services & Professor of Theological Bibliography Westminster Theological Seminary <http://www.wts.edu/library> Philadelphia, PA "Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. ~ *Neil Gaiman* On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:33 PM Richard Langworth <[email protected]> wrote: > THE END IS NIGH! > > Sandy Finlayson writes: "Is there any news on when the next Churchill > Documents volume will be released?" > > The printer expects to ship Volume 22 ("The Opposition Years," August > 1945-October 1951) in July. Let's say availability by September. The final > Volume 23 ("Never Flinch, Never Weary," November 1951-January 1965) will > appear in the autumn. Like previous volumes, each will sell for only $60, > well under cost, but commercial considerations are not the priority. All > volumes to date are available from Hillsdale College Bookstore > <http://bookstore.hillsdale.edu/merchlist?ID=15446>. > > Both volumes, well over 2500 pages, use a special paper designed to be > thin enough to bind, but not so thin as to cause "bleed-through" from print > on the other side. > > Late last March, all of us proofreaders, kibitzers and editors read the > final document (Lady Churchill to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 9 February > 1965), and suddenly realized: IT'S OVER. The longest biography on the > planet, 15 million words, has ended, 57 years after Randolph Churchill set > to work. If he were here, I said on the recent Hillsdale Cruise, he would > probably say, "What took you so long?" > > Well, what took so long was that Martin Gilbert found one huge pile of > stuff. There is a "wodge" of documents virtually for every day of > Churchill's life. We had a gala banquet in London to celebrate Randolph, > Martin, Dr. Larry Arnn and the Great Work, attended by all who had a hand > in it. Among them was Lady Gilbert (Esther), who spoke eloquently of > Martin, whose memory we cherish across the years. Her remarks and others > will be up on winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu shortly. It was a moment. > > Now this is not the end, or even the beginning of the end. Plans are afoot > for further works, including a new edition of the *Collected Essays—*expanded > from the original four volumes to many more, thanks to new material in the > Ronald Cohen collection and the Gilbert Papers, now acquired by Hillsdale. > Some of it represents an "unknown canon" of obscure Churchill works, not > seen since first publication. Like the OB, there will be electronic as well > as print editions, and an expanded online facility to ease research for > students and scholars. > > If anyone would like to help support this great work, and have their name > on the wall in our new Archives Atrium, please contact me at > [email protected]. > > Richard M. Langworth CBE > Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College > Churchill Project > winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu > richardlangworth.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/churchillchat/1add2872-9b16-4f78-bee4-aa1ca3cd8aa6%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/churchillchat/1add2872-9b16-4f78-bee4-aa1ca3cd8aa6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/churchillchat/CAB6-JBFMz37vs3_PBybd1PhirtaWZp%3DKePPeQM3nT6Akma0sdw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
