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John: Glad to hear from you. We hadn't seen Ralph in a bit and glad to hear that he is recovering. Still doing the GW research. I met with both the Papers of George Washington Project at UVA and Mount Vernon a few months ago and both were very interested. The GW Papers at UVA are publishing some 90 volumes of GWs correspondence and they even offered to do one complete volume on the maps. Of course, they have to raise money and who knows how long that will take so there is no signed contract. I am not too keen on approaching the LC Publishing office as they have a nasty habit of hiring outsiders to write books about LC collectons. (The recent book "Cartographia" was essentially conceived and virtually all the content was written by Ron Grim but the Publishing Office hired an outsider whose name wound up on the book.) As you have heard, someone recently "stole" my idea for the GW book. The publication, due out this fall, is "GW: A Biography through maps" and it is the case of a popular writer writing something that will "sell". The book attemts to tell GW's biography through a collection of printed maps (now at Yale) that GW had in his library. These maps are all commonly available amall scale printed maps (Lewis Evans, Faden, Moll, etc.) and LC probably has have multiple editions and copies of each. I guess I sound rather bitter but in the end, he got his hook published and I am still talking about it. I have reviewed portions of it and I am sure it will be a fine publication but I am still miffed that someone beat me to the punch. Hope you are enjoying what is left of summer. Ed -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Wolter Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:37 PM To: Discussion group for map history Subject: Re: [MapHist] Use of maps as / in shapes / symbols This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Ed: How is the research on George Washington going. I saw reference to a work on the maps the other day. Thought you were going tp continue work on this theme. Still trying to complete the Speiden book with David Ranzan, U archivist here ib Salisbury. Hope to have it with the publisher around Thanksgiving time. Health ok so far but can only work on research and writing a few hours each day. Talked to Ralph today. He is recovering from a hernia operation( double). but seems in good spirits, All best wishes. , John On Aug 25, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Redmond, Edward James wrote: > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying > to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > o + o + o + o + o + o + > > I bet Magellan had something to do with it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 3:56 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [MapHist] Use of maps as / in shapes / symbols > > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying > to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o > + o + o + o + o + o + o + > > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted > by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the > author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility > for the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > > Maphist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
