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A happy new year to you all, and welcome to new members. I am trying to turn over a new leaf this year, and so I shall try to send out the biographical sketches from new members on a monthly basis instead of waiting until I have accumulated a huge file and then choking the net with it! That will at least ensure (if I can keep it up!) that there is one message from REED-L a month. As you doubtless all know, 1994 was the year of Shropshire which appeared in all its glory in October. This year, we are hoping to see the Somersetshire collection delivered to the press in time for a 1995 imprint. This will be a large 2 volume collection, full of fascinating stuff such as may games and Robin Hood. You will no doubt be able to measure its progress through the system by the appearance of frantic messages asking anyone whose university or college library contains some obscure tome of Somerset lore to get in touch right away! The next issue of the REED Newsletter should be sent out soon, so those of you with subscriptions can look forward to that. Unfortunately it bears sad news in the form of an obituary for one of our founding executive members, David Galloway, a professor emeritus of English at the University of New Brunswick and the editor of our Norwich 1540-1642 collection. It was David who first saw that, by collecting provincial records of entertainment for Elizabethan and Stuart England, REED would have as much to offer scholars of Renaissance drama as it has had for mediaevalists by collecting records from such centres as York and Coventry. Abigail