Scholarship

(1970 March 8)

Must comment on "Wendover's Last Annal" [Skip's article in the English Historical Review]. My opinion on this is nil as I am uninformed on this field, and therefore my opinion counts for little. I would be interested in reading his story of the Creation, but not very interested in bickering about the variations in the texts. (I suppose you are hating me for this.) It is just the type of thing we [graduate students] used to do in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Seminar at UW and very dull it was I always thot. Tho I will admit very scholarly. And of interest to scholars. I must not have been a real scholar. "But let me make one thing crystal clear" [as Ripon historian Ed Webster used to say] - I am proud of you for being one and being published in such fine Reviews.