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Re: Verne in retirement

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:24:52 -0500
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Does anyone else have reason to call Lottman "infamous"?  I thought his bio was fair and thoughtful.  Any comments will be appreciated.  Cheers!  Walter James Miller----- Original Message -----

From: Jan Rychlík <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>

Date: Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:24 am

Subject: Re: Verne in retirement

> Dear Ian,
>
> The infamous Herbert Lottman used the retirement letter as a
> further "possible evidence" of Verne's avarice, this time
> unwillingness to pay membership fees. Lottman writes (Chpt. 38)
> that Verne also ended his membership in another societies then,
> but at the same time became a founding member of anti-Deyfuss
> Patriot League.
>
> But I didn't intend to write about Lottman inasmuch, rather to ask
> you whether you looked also for Verne's 1868 speech before the
> Société de Géographie de Paris reviewing the book "Histoire de la
> Guerre civile, 1861-1865" by Cortambert and Tranaltos?
>
> Sincerely
>
> Jan Rychlik
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> Received on Sun 30 Jan 2005 - 16:25:02 IST

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