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OWN YOUR DAYS AND NAME THEM --- THE RAVAGES OF INDIFFERENCE

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To: Yinishye Nasdijj

Subject: I LOVE RALPH!

I LOVE and ADORE your magazine. It is a very definite and badly needed VOICE in the wilderness.

Dear Nasdijj:

O my! Not only am I in love with your writing, now I am in love with you.

Your letter came just when I was finishing your latest, Geronimo's Bones.

You know I had to lay it down a few times because it hurt too much.

Please don't write any more sad ones, sad like that.

And please keep in touch.

--- Lolita Lark RALPH
poo@cts.com

Subject: Dyer epitaph

Dear Lolita,

Many thanks for your email and the link. You have done me proud. I didn't think I was ready to go into print, but it looks fine.

I have now been to Cambridge University Library to consult Bedfordshire notes and queries and have found that v. 2 of the epitaph was reproduced in Vol. 1 (1886), and the inscription on the front of the tomb and the will of Catherine Lady Dyer (this is the correct form) were reprinted in Vol. 3 (1893).

The item about the epitaph speaks of "a long piece of poetry, so quaint that I think it would be a pity not to reproduce it," and the writer then goes on to give only what we now know is v. 2. I wonder if this truncation is the cause of recent halvings.

I have a bit more work to do on this. I shall write again.

By the way, there is one mistake in your piece: I am not a reader of RALPH ... perhaps I should be. Could you send me a copy of the issue with the Dyer item in it, and I'll send you something in recompense either of your choice or mine?