Dear Diana,
David's collection and Tanya's blog have been the bright
happenings this past few weeks. As you saw from my compliments to
Tanya (which I didn't intend to send to the whole list) my older
brother died a week ago Saturday. He would have been 91 in March.
We knew it was coming but not this soon. He just missed the birth
of his first great-grand child who was born three days after he
died. Donald, my nephew who lives in London and his partner and a
great nephew who is teaching in Stockholm came for the funeral.
With all the border issues the visitation and service were
postponed to last Sunday and Monday. To add to all the other
things that had to be done the increase in the cases of covid
meant that Ontario has put a limit to the number of people who can
be at a private party. Things were much better a couple of weeks
ago and I invited everybody in the family to my annual party on
December 28. This had to be cancelled. The members of the
immediate family who don't live in Toronto (17 of them) get their
bags of goodies from me as their Christmas presents at the party.
I had most of the contents of the bags -- jellies, chutney etc and
snacks -- made but had not organized the bags in families etc. I
knew I would see them all at the visitation or funeral so I spent
the end of last week packing bags trying to get everything even. I
managed it but other important things like putting up the tree and
buying presents for my sister etc had to be done. I have come out
of that bustle and finally have time to write to my friends.
I hope you have a good Christmas and that we will be able to see each other in March. I hope to cross the Atlantic around the middle of the month and end the visit going to the MeTh meeting in Dundee -- but, of course, that depends on the wretched virus. I find the uncertainty of life at the moment very unsettling.
Love
[log in to unmask]">This is wonderful - thank you, David! It also brings back vivid memories of our REED N-E team summer outing to Gilling Castle a few years ago - happy days!Diana
Dr Diana Wyatt
Honorary Fellow,
Durham University,
Department of English Studies,
77 Hallgarth Street,
Durham DH1 3Ay, UK.
REED NE Project: http://community.dur.ac.uk/reed.ne
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Subject: Re: REED THIS! A blog about the Records of Early English Drama project[EXTERNAL EMAIL]This is terrific, Tanya. I have been deeply involved in family affairs this week (a brother died last weekend) and just tonight had a chance to look at what you have done. Havn't read it thoroughly yet but will very soon.
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On 2021-12-17 8:13 a.m., Tanya Hagen wrote:
We are pleased to announce that 'REED THIS! A blog about the Records of Early English Drama project' is now live.
Our inaugural series features the records of the newly published Yorkshire, North Riding collection, edited by David Klausner. Read the first essay, 'Music in Yorkshire's North Riding,' here:
Follow us on Instagram @reed_project for regular updates about the project!This is